Washington Administrative Code › Title 315 - Lottery Commission › Chapter 315-38 - Mega millions › Section 315-38-020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
Words and terms set forth below, when used herein, shall have
				the following meaning unless otherwise indicated:
(1) Annual/annuitized/annuity option: The
			 manner in which the Mega Millions jackpot prize may be paid in thirty
			 consecutive graduated annual installments. Payments shall escalate by a factor
			 of five percent annually, and annual payments shall be rounded to the nearest
			 even $1,000 increment to facilitate the purchase of securities.
(2) Authorized claim center: Any Mega
			 Millions agent or retailer, or party lottery office, in the state where the
			 winning official Mega Millions ticket was purchased.
(3) Cash option: The manner in which the Mega
			 Millions jackpot prize may be paid in a single payment.
(4) Claimant: Any person or entity submitting
			 a claim form within the required time period to collect a prize for an official
			 Mega Millions ticket. A claimant may be the purchaser, the person or entity
			 named on a signed official Mega Millions ticket, the bearer of an unsigned
			 official Mega Millions ticket, or any other person or entity who may seek
			 entitlement to a Mega Millions prize payment in accordance with the Mega
			 Millions rules and party lottery governing laws, policies and rules. No
			 claimant may assert rights different from the rights acquired by the original
			 purchaser at the time of purchase.
(5) Director(s): The chief officers of the
			 party lotteries or any other persons to whom the directors' authority is
			 lawfully delegated.
(6) Multistate
			 agreement: The amended and restated multistate agreement regarding the Mega
			 Millions game, or any subsequent amended agreement, signed by the party
			 lotteries and including the Mega Millions official game rules, finance and
			 operations procedures for Mega Millions, and online drawing procedures for Mega
			 Millions.
(7) Official Mega
			 Millions ticket: A game ticket, produced on official paper stock by a Mega
			 Millions agent or retailer in an authorized manner, bearing player or computer
			 selected numbers, game name, drawing date, amount of wager, and validation
			 data.
(8) Party lottery or
			 lotteries: One or more of the state lotteries authorized to become a member of
			 Mega Millions.
(9) Parimutuel:
			 Total amount of sales allocated to pay prize claimants at the designated prize
			 level, divided among the number of winning official Mega Millions tickets at
			 the designated prize level.
(10)
			 Prize fund: That portion of Mega Millions gross sales set aside for the payment
			 of prizes. The prize fund for any drawing is expected to be fifty percent of
			 sales, but may be higher or lower based upon the number of winners at each set
			 prize level, as well as the funding required to meet the advertised
			 jackpot.
(11) Purchaser(s):
			 Player(s) of Mega Millions who purchase tickets in accordance with Mega
			 Millions rules and party lottery governing laws, policies, and rules.
(12) Quick-pick, auto-pick or easy pick: A
			 player option in which Mega Millions number selections are determined at random
			 by computer software.
(13) Total
			 prize liability: The liability of the participating states in any Mega Millions
			 game prize, or any Mega Millions add-on game prize, will be in accordance with
			 the finance and operations procedures for Mega Millions.
(14) Subscription/season ticket: An extended,
			 multidraw purchase option, which may be offered in Washington state at the
			 discretion of the director of the Washington state lottery, wherein the same
			 set(s) of numbers may be played for a specified number of consecutive drawings
			 (for example, 26, 52 or 104), effective on a future date. Subscription/season
			 tickets are distinguished from multidraw tickets which are effective for
			 specified future drawings and are sold at the retailer level.
(15) Mega Millions agent, sales agent or
			 retailer: A location in one of the states which are party lotteries and which
			 is licensed or contracted and equipped by its respective state lottery to sell
			 official Mega Millions tickets.
(16) Mega Millions panel or play area: That
			 area of an official Mega Millions ticket identified by an alpha character and
			 containing one field of five one-digit or two-digit player or computer selected
			 numbers, and a second field of one one-digit or two-digit player or computer
			 selected number.
(17) Mega Millions
			 play/bet slip: A computer-readable form, printed and issued by each party
			 lottery, used in purchasing an official Mega Millions ticket, with each play
			 area consisting of two fields. One field contains seventy areas/spaces numbered
			 one through seventy; and one field contains twenty-five areas/spaces numbered
			 one through twenty-five.
(18) Mega
			 Millions winning numbers - Five one or two digit numbers from one through
			 seventy, and one or two digit number from one to twenty-five, randomly selected
			 at each Mega Millions drawing, which shall be used to determine winning Mega
			 Millions plays contained on official Mega Millions tickets.
(19) Add-on game: A game that may provide
			 prize amounts in addition to the Mega Millions prizes, other than the Mega
			 Millions jackpot prize.
Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter
				  67.70 RCW. 05-11-050,
				  §
										315-38-020, filed 5/13/05, effective 6/13/05. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW  67.70.040. 02-15-122, §
										315-38-020,
				  filed 7/19/02, effective 8/19/02.