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§ 58.1-4000. Short title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 58.1-4001. Establishment of state lottery - This chapter establishes a lottery to be operated by the...
§ 58.1-4002. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a...
§ 58.1-4003. Virginia Lottery established - Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1 (§ 18.2-325 et seq.)...
§ 58.1-4004. Membership of Board; appointment; terms; vacancies; removal; expenses - A. The Board shall consist of seven members, all of...
§ 58.1-4005. Appointment, qualifications and salary of Director - A. The Department shall be under the immediate supervision and...
§ 58.1-4006. Powers of the Director - A. The Director shall supervise and administer: 1. The operation...
§ 58.1-4006.1. Use of the phrase "Virginia is for Bettors" prohibited; civil penalty - A. As used in this section, "gaming business" means any...
§ 58.1-4007. Powers of the Board - A. The Board shall have the power to adopt regulations...
§ 58.1-4007.1. Lottery tickets to bear telephone number for compulsive gamblers - All lottery tickets printed after July 1, 1997, shall bear...
§ 58.1-4007.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2020, cc. 117 and 332, cl. 2.
§ 58.1-4008. Employees of the Department; background investigations of employees - All persons employed by the Department shall be fingerprinted before,...
§ 58.1-4009. Licensing of lottery sales agents; penalty - A. No license as an agent to sell lottery tickets...
§ 58.1-4010. Authority of persons licensed as lottery sales agents; annual fee - A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person licensed...
§ 58.1-4011. Meaning of "gross receipts." - A. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 37 (§ 58.1-3700 et...
§ 58.1-4012. Suspension and revocation of licenses - The Director may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew, after...
§ 58.1-4013. Right to prize not assignable; exceptions - A. No right of any person to a prize drawn...
§ 58.1-4014. Price of tickets or shares; who may sell; penalty - No person shall sell a ticket or share at any...
§ 58.1-4014.1. Method of payment for purchase of tickets or shares - Lottery sales agents licensed in accordance with this chapter shall...
§ 58.1-4015. Sale of ticket or share to person under eighteen prohibited; penalty - No ticket or share shall be sold to or redeemed...
§ 58.1-4015.1. Voluntary exclusion program - A. The Board shall adopt regulations to establish and implement...
§ 58.1-4016. Gift to minor prohibited - No ticket or share shall be given as a gift...
§ 58.1-4017. Alteration and forgery; presentation of counterfeit or altered ticket or share; penalty - Any person who forges, alters or fraudulently makes any lottery...
§ 58.1-4018. Prohibited actions; penalty - Any person who wrongfully and fraudulently uses, disposes of, conceals...
§ 58.1-4018.1. Larceny of tickets; fraudulent notification of prizes; penalty - A. Any person who steals or otherwise unlawfully converts to...
§ 58.1-4018.2. Ticket discounting; civil penalties - A. As used in this section, "ticket discounting" means reselling...
§ 58.1-4019. Certain persons ineligible to purchase tickets or shares or receive prizes - A. No ticket or share shall be purchased by, and...
§ 58.1-4019.1. License required for "instant ticket" games or contests - No person who owns or is employed by any retail...
§ 58.1-4020. Unclaimed prizes - A. Unclaimed prizes for a winning ticket or share shall...
§ 58.1-4020.1. Voluntary assignment of lottery prizes or pledge as collateral for a loan; requirements for the assignees and lenders - A. Lottery prizes, payable in installments over a period of...
§ 58.1-4021. Deposit of moneys received by agents; performance of functions, etc., in connection with operation of lottery; compensation of agents - A. The Director shall require all lottery sales agents to...
§ 58.1-4022. Virginia Lottery Fund - A. All moneys received from the sale of lottery tickets...
§ 58.1-4022.1. Lottery Proceeds Fund - A. There is hereby created in the state treasury a...
§ 58.1-4023. Post-audit of accounts and transactions of Department; post-compliance audits - A regular post-audit shall be conducted of all accounts and...
§ 58.1-4024. Employees of the Department - Employees of the Department shall be exempt from the provisions...
§ 58.1-4025. Exemption of lottery prizes and sales of tickets from state and local taxation - Except as provided in Chapter 3 of Title 58.1 and...
§ 58.1-4026. Set-off of debts to the Commonwealth from prizes - The Director shall establish by rule and regulation a set-off...
§ 58.1-4027. Judicial review - The action of the Board in (i) granting or denying...
§ 58.1-4028. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2002, c. 3.
§ 58.1-4029. Disclosure of identity of winners by the Department - Except as provided in subsection B of § 58.1-4019, the...
§ 58.1-4030. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...
§ 58.1-4031. Powers and duties of the Director related to sports betting; reporting - A. The Department shall operate a sports betting program under...
§ 58.1-4032. Application for a sports betting permit; penalty - A. An applicant for a sports betting permit shall: 1....
§ 58.1-4033. Renewals of permits - A. A permit issued pursuant to § 58.1-4032 shall be...
§ 58.1-4034. Duties of permit holders - A. A permit holder shall ensure that its sports betting...
§ 58.1-4035. Suspension and revocation of permits; civil penalties - If the Director determines that a permit holder has violated...
§ 58.1-4036. Use of official league data - A. A permit holder may use any data source for...
§ 58.1-4037. Tax on adjusted gross revenue - A. There shall be imposed a tax of 15 percent...
§ 58.1-4038. Distribution of tax revenue - A. The Department shall allocate 2.5 percent of the tax...
§ 58.1-4039. Events on which betting is prohibited; penalty - A. 1. No person shall place or accept a bet...
§ 58.1-4040. Underage betting prohibited; penalty - A. No person shall knowingly accept or redeem a sports...
§ 58.1-4041. Persons prohibited from sports betting; penalty - A. The following persons shall be prohibited from sports betting:...
§ 58.1-4042. Operation and advertising of unpermitted facilities prohibited; penalty - A. No person, except for a permit holder authorized pursuant...
§ 58.1-4043. Reporting and investigating prohibited conduct - A. The Department shall establish a hotline or other method...
§ 58.1-4044. Required direct notification to the Department and to sports governing bodies - A. A permit holder shall, as soon as is commercially...
§ 58.1-4045. Liquidity pools - The Board may promulgate rules authorizing permit holders to offset...
§ 58.1-4046. Intermediate routing of electronic data - All sports betting shall be initiated and received within Virginia...
§ 58.1-4047. Certain provisions in Article 1 (§ 58.1-4000 et seq.) to apply, mutatis mutandis - Except as provided in this article, the provisions of Article...