California Government Code

§ 8880.321

GOV § 8880.321 Effective Oct 11, 2009Div. 1 · Title 2 · Ch. 12.5 · Art. 3

Statute text

The commission shall promulgate regulations to establish a system of verifying the validity of prizes and to effect payment of the prizes, provided that:

(a)For convenience of the public, lottery game retailers may be authorized by the commission to pay winners of up to six hundred dollars ($600) after performing validation procedures on their premises appropriate to the lottery game involved.

(b)No prize may be paid arising from tickets or shares that are stolen, counterfeit, altered, fraudulent, unissued, produced or issued in error, unreadable, not received or not recorded by the lottery by applicable deadlines, lacking in captions that confirm and agree with the lottery play symbols required by the lottery game involved, purchased by a minor, or not in compliance with additional specific rules and regulations and confidential validation and security tests appropriate to the particular lottery game. The lottery may pay a prize even though the actual winning ticket is not received by the lottery if the lottery validates the claim for the prize based upon substantial proof. “Substantial proof” means any evidence that would permit the lottery to use established validation procedures, as specified in lottery regulations, to validate the claim. The commission may require that any form relating to a claim for a prize shall be signed under penalty of perjury. This declaration shall meet the requirements of Section 2015.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 207, Sec. 1. (SB 831) Effective October 11, 2009. Note: This section was added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 363, with provisions from former Section 8880.32 (repealed by Ch. 363), which was added on Nov. 6, 1984, by initiative Prop. 37.