Illinois Lottery Law

Illinois · Executive Branch · §§ 20-1605-1 to 20-1605-9-3 · 74 sections

Overview

This act creates a state-operated lottery administered by a designated state department, which conducts the games and licenses private retailers as sales agents to sell tickets and shares to the public. It sets the terms of that system: license application requirements and fees, treatment of sales proceeds as a trust fund owed to the state, fixed ticket prices, a minimum purchase age, deadlines for claiming prizes, and restrictions on assigning prizes. It also establishes a dedicated state lottery fund for revenues, criminal penalties for forging or counterfeiting tickets and for misconduct by lottery officers and employees, investigative enforcement authority, disclosure of the odds of winning, measures addressing compulsive gambling, and authority for special instant scratch-off games whose proceeds support designated charitable and public causes.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

Sections covered

20 ILCS 1605/1This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Lottery Law"
20 ILCS 1605/10The Department, upon application therefor on forms prescribed by the Department, and upon a determination by the Department that the applicant meets all of the qualifications specified in this Act, shall issue a license as an agent to sell lottery tickets or shares
20 ILCS 1605/10.1Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/10.1aExecutive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/10.2Application and other fees
20 ILCS 1605/10.3All proceeds from the sale of lottery tickets or shares received by a person in the capacity of a sales agent shall constitute a trust fund until paid to the Department either directly, or through the Department's authorized collection representative
20 ILCS 1605/10.4Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/10.5Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/10.6The Department shall make an effort to more directly inform players of the odds of winning prizes
20 ILCS 1605/10.7Compulsive gambling
20 ILCS 1605/10.8Specialty retailers license
20 ILCS 1605/11Every officer and employee shall for any offense be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by existing law for the same offense by any officer or employee whose powers or duties devolve upon him under this Act
20 ILCS 1605/12Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/13Except as otherwise provided in Section 13.1, no prize, nor any portion of a prize, nor any right of any person to a prize awarded shall be assignable
20 ILCS 1605/13.1Assignment of prizes payable in installments
20 ILCS 1605/14No person shall sell a ticket or share at a price greater than that fixed by rule or regulation of the Department
20 ILCS 1605/14.2Any person who, with intent to defraud, shall falsely make, alter, forge, utter, pass or counterfeit a lottery ticket or share issued by the State of Illinois under this Act shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony
20 ILCS 1605/14.3Misuse of proprietary material prohibited
20 ILCS 1605/14.4Investigators
20 ILCS 1605/15No minor under 18 years of age shall buy a lottery ticket or share
20 ILCS 1605/16Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/17No other law providing any penalty or disability for the sale of lottery tickets or shares or any acts done in connection with the lottery established under this Act shall apply to the sale of tickets or shares performed pursuant to this Act
20 ILCS 1605/18(Repealed)
20 ILCS 1605/19The Department shall establish an appropriate period for the claiming of prizes for each lottery game offered
20 ILCS 1605/2This Act is enacted to implement and establish within the State a lottery to be conducted by the State through the Department
20 ILCS 1605/20State Lottery Fund
20 ILCS 1605/20.1Department account
20 ILCS 1605/21Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/21.10Scratch-off for State police memorials
20 ILCS 1605/21.11Scratch-off for homelessness prevention programs
20 ILCS 1605/21.12(Repealed)
20 ILCS 1605/21.13Scratch-off for Alzheimer's care, support, education, and awareness
20 ILCS 1605/21.14(Repealed)
20 ILCS 1605/21.15Scratch-off for United Negro College Fund Illinois
20 ILCS 1605/21.16Illinois DREAM scratch-off
20 ILCS 1605/21.17Illinois Lottery Special Instant Scratch-off Task Force
20 ILCS 1605/21.2(Repealed)
20 ILCS 1605/21.3Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/21.4Joint Special Instant Scratch-off game
20 ILCS 1605/21.5Carolyn Adams Ticket For The Cure
20 ILCS 1605/21.6Scratch-off for Illinois veterans
20 ILCS 1605/21.7Scratch-out Multiple Sclerosis scratch-off game
20 ILCS 1605/21.8Quality of Life scratch-off game
20 ILCS 1605/21.9Go For The Gold scratch-off game
20 ILCS 1605/24The State Comptroller shall conduct a preaudit of all accounts and transactions of the Department in connection with the operation of the State Lottery under the State Comptroller Act, excluding payments issued by the Department for prizes of $25,000 or less
20 ILCS 1605/25Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/26Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/27Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/28(Repealed)
20 ILCS 1605/29The Department of the Lottery
20 ILCS 1605/3For the purposes of this Act: a
20 ILCS 1605/4The Department of the Lottery is established to implement and regulate the State Lottery in the manner provided in this Act
20 ILCS 1605/5(a) The Department shall be under the supervision and direction of a Director, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to perform the duties required by this Act
20 ILCS 1605/5.1E.J
20 ILCS 1605/6There is hereby created an independent board to be known as the Lottery Control Board, consisting of 5 members, all of whom shall be citizens of the United States and residents of this State and shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate
20 ILCS 1605/7.1The Department shall promulgate such rules and regulations governing the establishment and operation of a State lottery as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act
20 ILCS 1605/7.11The Department may establish and collect nominal charges for promotional products ("premiums") and other promotional materials produced or acquired by the Department as part of its advertising and promotion activities
20 ILCS 1605/7.12Internet program
20 ILCS 1605/7.15Verification for Internet program; security for Internet lottery accounts
20 ILCS 1605/7.16Voluntary self-exclusion program for Internet lottery sales
20 ILCS 1605/7.17(Repealed)
20 ILCS 1605/7.2Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/7.3The Board shall designate Hearing Officers who shall conduct hearings upon complaints charging violations of this Act or of regulations thereunder, and such other hearings as may be provided by Department rule
20 ILCS 1605/7.4Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/7.5Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/7.6The Board shall advise and make recommendations to the Director regarding the functions and operations of the State Lottery
20 ILCS 1605/7.8The Department shall make an annual report regarding the work of the Board to the Governor, the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, and the minority leaders of both houses, such report to be a public report
20 ILCS 1605/7.8aThe Board shall establish advertising policy to ensure that advertising content and practices do not target with the intent to exploit specific groups or economic classes of people, and that its content is accurate and not misleading
20 ILCS 1605/8Executive Branch › 20 ILCS 1605 — Illinois Lottery Law
20 ILCS 1605/8.1Contracts for State Lottery tickets or shares or for other State Lottery game related services shall be obtained through the utilization of competitive negotiation procedures whenever practicable
20 ILCS 1605/9The Director, as administrative head of the Department, shall direct and supervise all its administrative and technical activities
20 ILCS 1605/9.1Private manager and management agreement
20 ILCS 1605/9.2(Repealed)
20 ILCS 1605/9.3Expenditure and distribution of lottery proceeds

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