Virginia Lottery Law

Virginia · 58.1 · §§ 58.1-4000 to 58.1-4029 · 41 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.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 6 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 732 F. Supp. 633 - Edge Broadcasting Co. v. United States

Sections covered

Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4000Short title
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4001Establishment of state lottery2 cites
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4002Definitions
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4003Virginia Lottery established1 cite
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4004Membership of Board; appointment; terms; vacancies; removal; expenses
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4005Appointment, qualifications and salary of Director
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4006Powers of the Director
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4006.1Use of the phrase "Virginia is for Bettors" prohibited; civil penalty
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4007Powers of the Board
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4007.1Lottery tickets to bear telephone number for compulsive gamblers
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4007.2Repealed
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4007.3Posting of illegal gaming tip line; problem gambling helpline
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4008Employees of the Department; background investigations of employees
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4009Licensing of lottery sales agents; penalty
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4010Authority of persons licensed as lottery sales agents; annual fee
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4011Meaning of "gross receipts."
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4012Suspension and revocation of licenses
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4013Right to prize not assignable; exceptions2 cites
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4014Price of tickets or shares; who may sell; penalty
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4014.1Method of payment for purchase of tickets or shares
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4015Sale of ticket or share to person under eighteen prohibited; penalty1 cite
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4015.1Voluntary exclusion program
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4016Gift to minor prohibited
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4017Alteration and forgery; presentation of counterfeit or altered ticket or share; penalty
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4018Prohibited actions; penalty
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4018.1Larceny of tickets; fraudulent notification of prizes; penalty
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4018.2Ticket discounting; civil penalties
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4019Certain persons ineligible to purchase tickets or shares or receive prizes
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4019.1License required for "instant ticket" games or contests
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4020Unclaimed prizes
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4020.1Voluntary assignment of lottery prizes or pledge as collateral for a loan; requirements for the assignees and lenders
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4021Deposit of moneys received by agents; performance of functions, etc., in connection with operation of lottery; compensation of agents
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4022Virginia Lottery Fund
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4022.1Lottery Proceeds Fund
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4023Post-audit of accounts and transactions of Department; post-compliance audits
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4024Employees of the Department
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4025Exemption of lottery prizes and sales of tickets from state and local taxation
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4026Set-off of debts to the Commonwealth from prizes
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4027Judicial review
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4028Repealed
Va. Code Ann. § 58.1-4029Disclosure of identity of winners by the Department

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