California State Lottery Act
California · GOV · §§ 8880 to 8880.9 · 17 sections
Overview
The State Lottery Act authorizes a state-run lottery and places its administration in an executive agency headed by a director, setting out that agency's powers and duties and its authority to adopt rules governing the lottery's operation. It requires anyone selling lottery tickets to hold a license, specifying application and fee requirements, bonding and insurance obligations, display and renewal terms, and grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation, and it constrains the enterprise itself through limits on which games may be offered, how the lottery may advertise, how it must procure goods and services, and which contracts and sales are forbidden. The act layers accountability over both sides of that scheme — audits and independent financial review, investigations, enforcement and security provisions, confidentiality rules for sensitive records, document retention and meeting-recording requirements, demographic study of who plays, and periodic review of the program's continued operation — while exempting lottery proceeds or activity from certain taxation.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 16 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 480 U.S. 202 - California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
Sections covered
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880General Provisions and Definitions9 cites
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.1General Provisions and Definitions2 cites
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.10General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.11General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.12General Provisions and Definitions3 cites
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.13General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.14General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.2General Provisions and Definitions1 cite
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.3General Provisions and Definitions1 cite
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.4General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.4.1General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.4.5General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.5General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.6General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.7General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.8General Provisions and Definitions
- Cal. Gov. Code § 8880.9General Provisions and Definitions
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