Virginia Administrative Code
Title 11 - GAMING
Agency 5 - VIRGINIA LOTTERY BOARD


Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 3, September 23, 2024

AGENCY SUMMARY

The State Lottery Department is an independent agency of the Commonwealth, exclusive of the legislative, executive or judicial branches of government. The State Lottery Law was approved by the 1987 Virginia General Assembly and by a majority of voters in a referendum held on November 3, 1987.

The State Lottery Board is authorized to adopt regulations governing the establishment and operation of a lottery. The regulations are required to provide for all matters necessary or desirable for the efficient, honest and economical operation and administration of the lottery and for the convenience of the purchasers of tickets or shares and the holders of winning tickets or shares. They may be amended, repealed or supplemented as necessary, and include type of lottery, ticket price, numbers and sizes of prizes, manner of selecting and payment of winning tickets, frequency of drawings, licensing of agents and their compensation, and apportionment of revenues. The board is also required to promulgate regulations regarding department procurement and for an annual license fee to be collected from each lottery sales agent. Such fee is to be designed to recover all or such portion of the installation and annual operational costs borne by the department in providing services to the agent. Code of Virginia, Title 58.1, Chapter 40.

The Director of the State Lottery Department is authorized to supervise and administer the operations of the lottery in accordance with the provisions of the State Lottery Law and the rules and regulations of the board and is required to establish by rule and regulation a set-off debt collection program in accordance with the provisions of the Setoff Debt Collection Act, Article 21 of Chapter 3 of Title 58.1, wherein certain prizes are subjected to delinquent debts of agencies and institutions of the Commonwealth. Code of Virginia, Title 58.1, Chapter 40.

Regulations and rules for specific lottery games may be inspected or copied at the headquarters office of the State Lottery Department, 900 East Main Street, Richmond, VA 23219, and at each of the department's regional offices. Regulations and lottery game rules are also available on the department's website at http://www.valottery.com. Contact information for regional offices is available on the department's website. For nonstate agencies, the cost of copying plus handling is $.15 per page.

Rev. 11/2012

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