(a) A winning ticket shall be eligible to receive a prize if the following are true:
- (1) The winning ticket was issued from an on-line terminal by an authorized lottery retailer;
- (2) The winning ticket information was recorded in the central computer system at least 59 minutes prior to the drawing;
- (3) All information appearing on the winning ticket corresponds precisely with the commission’s computer record;
- (4) The validation number and bar code appears in its entirety;
- (5) The winning ticket is intact, fully legible, and corresponds to the art work on file at the commission;
- (6) The ticket is not defectively printed, fuzzy, unreadable, blank or partially blank, or defective; and
- (7) The ticket is not counterfeit in whole or in part, altered, reconstructed, tampered with in any manner, stolen, or mis-registered.
- (b) If a ticket does not meet the requirements of (a) above, the ticket shall be deemed void and ineligible for any prize.
Source. (See Revision Note at chapter heading for Lot 2000) #12542, eff 6-1-18