Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment conforms this rule to proposed
amendments reflecting current practice and terminology and to a proposed
rescission moving a provision currently in another rule to this rule, combining
different requirements relating to winning Scratchers tickets and to validation
of those tickets into fewer rules.
(1)
All of the following requirements must be met for a Scratchers ticket to be a
valid Scratchers winning ticket:
(A) Exactly
one (1) play symbol must appear under each rub-off spot on the
ticket;
(B) When play symbol
captions are used, each of the play symbols must have a play symbol caption
underneath and each play symbol must agree with its play symbol
caption;
(C) Each of the play
symbols must be present in its entirety and be fully legible;
(D) When play symbol captions are used, each
of the play symbol captions must be present in its entirety and be fully
legible;
(E) Each of the play
symbols and play symbol captions must be printed in ink;
(F) The ticket shall be intact;
(G) The pack-ticket number, the ticket
validation number and the encrypted validation code must be present in their
entirety and be fully legible. The validation number shall correspond, using
the lottery's codes, to play symbols on the ticket;
(H) The ticket must not be reconstituted or
tampered with in any manner;
(I)
The ticket must not be counterfeit in whole or in part;
(J) The ticket validation number, the
pack-ticket number and the encrypted validation code shall be printed in
ink;
(K) The ticket must have been
issued by the lottery in an authorized manner;
(L) The ticket must not be stolen nor appear
on any list of omitted tickets on file at the lottery;
(M) The play symbols, the play symbol
captions, the ticket validation number, the encrypted validation code and the
pack-ticket number must be rightside up and not reversed in any
manner;
(N) The ticket must have
exactly one (1) play symbol caption under each rub-off spot, when play symbol
captions are used, exactly one (1) pack-ticket number, exactly one (1)
encrypted validation code and exactly one (1) validation number;
(O) The validation number of an apparent
winning ticket shall appear on the lottery's official file of validation
numbers of winning tickets and the ticket with that validation number shall not
have been paid previously according to the records of the lottery;
(P) The ticket must not be blank or partially
blank, misregistered, defective or printed or produced in error;
(Q) Each of the play symbols on the ticket
must correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at the lottery.
When play symbol captions are used, each of the play symbol captions must
correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at the
lottery;
(R) The pack-ticket
number must correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at the
lottery;
(S) The encrypted
validation code must correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at
the lottery;
(T) The validation
number must correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at the
lottery;
(U) The display printing
must be regular in every respect and correspond precisely with the game
specifications on file at the lottery;
(V) The ticket must pass all additional confidential
validation tests prescribed by the lottery; and
(W) The ticket must be a Scratchers ticket offered for
sale by the lottery during the period announced by the director for that
Scratchers game.
(2) No
portion of the display printing on the Scratchers ticket nor any extraneous
matter whatsoever shall be usable or playable as part of the Scratchers
ticket.
(3) At the direction of
the director, the lottery may pay a winning claim on a damaged or mutilated
ticket. This is dependent on the lottery being able to identify the
game-pack-ticket number or validation number, and a sufficient amount of the
ticket play area, in order to have the ability to reconstruct the ticket, as
directed by lottery procedure, to compare and successfully match it to the
damaged/mutilated ticket. Provided that the ticket has not been validated, the
lottery's director may authorize that the claim be paid.
(4) The director, solely at his/her option, may
replace an invalid ticket with an unplayed ticket(s) of equivalent sales price
for any current lottery game. In the event a defective ticket is purchased, the
only responsibility or liability of the lottery shall be the replacement of the
defective ticket with another unplayed ticket(s) of equivalent sales price from
any lottery Scratchers game currently on sale.
*Original authority: 313.220, RSMo 1985, amended 1988,
1990, 1993.
