General Provisions and Definitions
Known as the California State Lottery Act
The act spans §§ 8880–8880 (17 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Western Telcon, Inc. v. California State Lottery (1996)
Most recently applied in Pauma Band Mission Indians v. State of California (September 2020)
Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 509, Sec. 1
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
“Lottery Game”
“Lottery Game” means any procedure authorized by the commission whereby prizes are distributed among persons who have paid, or who have unconditionally agreed to pay, for tickets or shares which provide the opportunity to win those prizes.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.