Kansas Statutes
Article 87 - State Lottery
74-8702 Definitions.

74-8702. Definitions. As used in the Kansas lottery act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Ancillary lottery gaming facility operations" means additional non-lottery facility game products and services not owned and operated by the state which may be included in the overall development associated with the lottery gaming facility. Such operations may include, but are not limited to, restaurants, hotels, motels, museums or entertainment facilities.
(b) "Commission" means the Kansas lottery commission.
(c) "Electronic gaming machine" means any electronic, electromechanical, video or computerized device, contrivance or machine authorized by the Kansas lottery which, upon insertion of cash, tokens, electronic cards or any consideration, is available to play, operate or simulate the play of a game authorized by the Kansas lottery pursuant to the Kansas expanded lottery act, including, but not limited to, bingo, poker, blackjack, keno and slot machines, and which may deliver or entitle the player operating the machine to receive cash, tokens, merchandise or credits that may be redeemed for cash. Electronic gaming machines may use bill validators and may be single-position reel-type, single or multi-game video and single-position multi-game video electronic game, including, but not limited to, poker, blackjack and slot machines. Electronic gaming machines shall be directly linked to a central computer at a location determined by the executive director for purposes of security, monitoring and auditing.
(d) "Executive director" means the executive director of the Kansas lottery.
(e) "Gaming equipment" means any electric, electronic, computerized or electromechanical machine, mechanism, supply or device or any other equipment, which is: (1) Unique to the Kansas lottery and used pursuant to the Kansas lottery act; and (2) integral to the operation of an electronic gaming machine or lottery facility game; and (3) affects the results of an electronic gaming machine or lottery facility game by determining win or loss.
(f) "Gaming zone" means: (1) The northeast Kansas gaming zone, which consists of Wyandotte county; (2) the southeast Kansas gaming zone, which consists of Crawford and Cherokee counties; (3) the south central Kansas gaming zone, which consists of Sedgwick and Sumner counties; and (4) the southwest Kansas gaming zone, which consists of Ford county.
(g) "Gray machine" means any mechanical, electro-mechanical or electronic device, capable of being used for gambling, that is: (1) Not authorized by the Kansas lottery; (2) not linked to a lottery central computer system; (3) available to the public for play; or (4) capable of simulating a game played on an electronic gaming machine or any similar gambling game authorized pursuant to the Kansas expanded lottery act.
(h) (1) "Instant bingo vending machine" means a machine or electronic device that is purchased or leased by a licensee, as defined by K.S.A. 75-5173, and amendments thereto, from a distributor who has been issued a distributor registration certificate pursuant to K.S.A. 75-5184, and amendments thereto, or leased from the Kansas lottery in fulfillment of the Kansas lottery's obligations under an agreement between the Kansas lottery and a licensee entered into pursuant to K.S.A. 75-5189, and amendments thereto, and the sole purpose of which is to:
(A) Dispense a printed physical instant bingo ticket after a purchaser inserts cash or other form of consideration into the machine; and
(B) allow purchasers to manually check the winning status of the instant bingo ticket.
(2) "Instant bingo vending machine" shall not:
(A) Provide a visual or audio representation of a bingo card or an electronic gaming machine;
(B) visually or functionally have the same characteristics of an electronic instant bingo game or an electronic gaming machine;
(C) automatically determine or display the winning status of any dispensed instant bingo ticket;
(D) extend or arrange credit for the purchase of an instant bingo ticket;
(E) dispense any winnings;
(F) dispense any prize;
(G) dispense any evidence of a prize other than an instant bingo ticket;
(H) provide free instant bingo tickets or any other item that can be redeemed for cash; or
(I) dispense any other form of a prize to a purchaser.
All physical instant bingo tickets dispensed by an instant bingo vending machine shall be purchased by a licensee, as defined by K.S.A. 75-5173, and amendments thereto, from a registered distributor.
No more than two instant bingo vending machines may be located on the premises of each licensee location.
(i) "Kansas lottery" means the state agency created by this act to operate a lottery or lotteries pursuant to this act.
(j) "Lottery" or "state lottery" means the lottery or lotteries operated pursuant to this act.
(k) "Lottery facility games" means any electronic gaming machines and any other games which, as of January 1, 2007, are authorized to be conducted or operated at a tribal gaming facility, as defined in K.S.A. 74-9802, and amendments thereto, located within the boundaries of this state.
(l) "Lottery gaming enterprise" means an entertainment enterprise which includes a lottery gaming facility authorized pursuant to the Kansas expanded lottery act and ancillary lottery gaming facility operations that have a coordinated business or marketing strategy. A lottery gaming enterprise shall be designed to attract to its lottery gaming facility consumers who reside outside the immediate area of such enterprise.
(m) "Lottery gaming facility" means that portion of a building used for the purposes of operating, managing and maintaining lottery facility games.
(n) "Lottery gaming facility expenses" means normal business expenses, as defined in the lottery gaming facility management contract, associated with the ownership and operation of a lottery gaming facility.
(o) "Lottery gaming facility management contract" means a contract, subcontract or collateral agreement between the state and a lottery gaming facility manager for the management of a lottery gaming facility, the business of which is owned and operated by the Kansas lottery, negotiated and signed by the executive director on behalf of the state.
(p) "Lottery gaming facility manager" means a corporation, limited liability company, resident Kansas American Indian tribe or other business entity authorized to construct and manage, or manage alone, pursuant to a lottery gaming facility management contract with the Kansas lottery, and on behalf of the state, a lottery gaming enterprise and lottery gaming facility.
(q) "Lottery gaming facility revenues" means the total revenues from lottery facility games at a lottery gaming facility after all related prizes are paid.
(r) (1) "Lottery machine" means any machine or device that allows a purchaser to insert cash or other form of consideration and may deliver as the result of an element of chance, regardless of the skill required by the purchaser, a prize or evidence of a prize, including, but not limited to:
(A) Any machine or device in which the prize or evidence of a prize is determined by both chance and the purchaser's or purchasers' skill, including, but not limited to, any machine or device on which a lottery game or lottery games, such as poker or blackjack, are played; or
(B) any machine or device in which the prize or evidence of a prize is determined only by chance, including, but not limited to, any slot machine or bingo machine.
(2) "Lottery machine" shall not mean:
(A) Any food vending machine defined by K.S.A. 36-501, and amendments thereto;
(B) any nonprescription drug machine authorized under K.S.A. 65-650, and amendments thereto;
(C) any machine which dispenses only bottled or canned soft drinks, chewing gum, nuts or candies;
(D) any machine excluded from the definition of gambling devices under K.S.A. 21-4302(d), prior to its repeal, or K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-6403, and amendments thereto;
(E) any electronic gaming machine or lottery facility game operated in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas expanded lottery act;
(F) any lottery ticket vending machine; or
(G) any instant bingo vending machine.
(s) "Lottery retailer" means any person with whom the Kansas lottery has contracted to sell lottery tickets or shares, or both, to the public.
(t) (1) "Lottery ticket vending machine" means a machine or similar electronic device owned or leased by the Kansas lottery, the sole purposes of which are to:
(A) Dispense a printed physical ticket, such as a lottery ticket, a keno ticket, a pull tab ticket or a coupon, the coupon of which must be redeemed through something other than a lottery ticket vending machine, after a purchaser inserts cash or other form of consideration into the machine;
(B) allow purchasers to manually check the winning status of a Kansas lottery ticket; and
(C) display advertising, promotions and other information pertaining to the Kansas lottery.
(2) "Lottery ticket vending machine" shall not:
(A) Provide a visual or audio representation of an electronic gaming machine;
(B) visually or functionally have the same characteristics of an electronic gaming machine;
(C) automatically determine or display the winning status of any dispensed ticket;
(D) extend or arrange credit for the purchase of a ticket;
(E) dispense any winnings;
(F) dispense any prize;
(G) dispense any evidence of a prize other than the lottery ticket, keno ticket, pull tab ticket or any free Kansas lottery ticket received as a result of the purchase of another Kansas lottery ticket;
(H) provide free games or any other item that can be redeemed for cash; or
(I) dispense any other form of a prize to a purchaser.
No more than two lottery ticket vending machines may be located at each Kansas lottery retailer selling location.
Lottery ticket vending machines may only dispense the printed physical lottery ticket, keno ticket or pull tab ticket, including any free Kansas lottery ticket received as a result of the purchase of another Kansas lottery ticket, and change from a purchase to the purchaser. Any winnings from a lottery ticket vending machine shall be redeemed only for cash or check by a lottery retailer or by cash, check or other prize from the office of the Kansas lottery.
(u) (1) "Major procurement" means any gaming product or service, including, but not limited to, facilities, advertising and promotional services, annuity contracts, prize payment agreements, consulting services, equipment, tickets and other products and services unique to the Kansas lottery, but not including materials, supplies, equipment and services common to the ordinary operations of state agencies.
(2) "Major procurement" shall not mean any product, service or other matter covered by or addressed in the Kansas expanded lottery act or a lottery gaming facility management contract or racetrack gaming facility management contract executed pursuant to the Kansas expanded lottery act.
(v) "Net electronic gaming machine income" means all cash or other consideration utilized to play an electronic gaming machine operated at a racetrack gaming facility, less all cash or other consideration paid out to winning players as prizes.
(w) "Organization licensee" has the meaning provided by K.S.A. 74-8802, and amendments thereto.
(x) "Parimutuel licensee" means a facility owner licensee or facility manager licensee under the Kansas parimutuel racing act.
(y) "Parimutuel licensee location" means a racetrack facility, as defined in K.S.A. 74-8802, and amendments thereto, owned or managed by the parimutuel licensee. A parimutuel licensee location may include any existing structure at such racetrack facility or any structure that may be constructed on real estate where such racetrack facility is located.
(z) "Person" means any natural person, association, limited liability company, corporation or partnership.
(aa) "Prize" means any prize paid directly by the Kansas lottery pursuant to the Kansas lottery act or the Kansas expanded lottery act or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to either act.
(bb) "Progressive electronic game" means a game played on an electronic gaming machine for which the payoff increases uniformly as the game is played and for which the jackpot, determined by application of a formula to the income of independent, local or interlinked electronic gaming machines, may be won.
(cc) "Racetrack gaming facility" means that portion of a parimutuel licensee location where electronic gaming machines are operated, managed and maintained.
(dd) "Racetrack gaming facility management contract" means an agreement between the Kansas lottery and a racetrack gaming facility manager, negotiated and signed by the executive director on behalf of the state, for placement of electronic gaming machines owned and operated by the state at a racetrack gaming facility.
(ee) "Racetrack gaming facility manager" means a parimutuel licensee specifically certified by the Kansas lottery to become a certified racetrack gaming facility manager and offer electronic gaming machines for play at the racetrack gaming facility.
(ff) "Returned ticket" means any ticket which was transferred to a lottery retailer, which was not sold by the lottery retailer and which was returned to the Kansas lottery for refund by issuance of a credit or otherwise.
(gg) "Share" means any intangible manifestation authorized by the Kansas lottery to prove participation in a lottery game, except as provided by the Kansas expanded lottery act.
(hh) "Ticket" means any tangible evidence issued by the Kansas lottery to prove participation in a lottery game other than a lottery facility game.
(ii) "Token" means a representative of value, of metal or other material, which is not legal tender, redeemable for cash only by the issuing lottery gaming facility manager or racetrack gaming facility manager and which is issued and sold by a lottery gaming facility manager or racetrack gaming facility manager for the sole purpose of playing an electronic gaming machine or lottery facility game.
(jj) "Vendor" means any person who has entered into a major procurement contract with the Kansas lottery.
(kk) "Video lottery machine" means any electronic video game machine that, upon insertion of cash, is available to play or simulate the play of a video game authorized by the commission, including, but not limited to, bingo, poker, black jack and keno, and which uses a video display and microprocessors and in which, by chance, the player may receive free games or credits that can be redeemed for cash.
History: L. 1987, ch. 292, § 2; L. 1988, ch. 314, § 1; L. 1989, ch. 244, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 299, § 2; L. 2001, ch. 24, § 5; L. 2007, ch. 110, § 1; L. 2011, ch. 30, § 259; L. 2018, ch. 96, § 1; May 24.

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