§ 11-19-35. Pull-tab lottery tickets.
(a) The Rhode Island lottery is empowered to sell and regulate the sale of pull-tab lottery tickets to religious, fraternal, civic, educational, veterans’, or charitable organizations. The lottery shall determine, consistent with this section, those organizations that are authorized to sell pull-tab lottery tickets. As part of such determination, the Rhode Island lottery shall require criminal background checks of the applicant and any individual the lottery deems appropriate and said individuals shall apply to the bureau of criminal investigation of the Rhode Island state police or the Rhode Island department of the attorney general for a national criminal records check with fingerprinting. The individual whose criminal records check is being conducted shall be responsible for the payment of the costs of said criminal records check. The Rhode Island state police or the Rhode Island department of attorney general, as applicable, shall send the results of such criminal check to the Rhode Island lottery. Once said results are sent to and received by the Rhode Island Lottery, the Rhode Island state police and the Rhode Island department of attorney general shall promptly destroy said fingerprint record(s). On or before February 1, 2011, the agency shall adopt rules and regulations establishing criteria to be used in determining whether based upon a criminal records check an application will be approved.
(b) The lottery shall insure that the pull tab lottery tickets to be distributed are secured for the purposes under which they are to be sold in terms of concealing the result of the tickets until the time that they are sold to the general public. Consistent with this section, those organizations authorized to sell the tickets are authorized to retain net profits as shall have been provided for by the commission.
(c) Notwithstanding any other section of the general laws to the contrary, pull-tab lottery tickets authorized by this section are declared to be legal.
History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 188, § 2; P.L. 2010, ch. 252, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries
Section 11-19-1. - Forms of gambling prohibited.
Section 11-19-1.1. - Lotteries permitted.
Section 11-19-2. - Unauthorized sale of lottery tickets.
Section 11-19-3. - Instruments given for lottery tickets void.
Section 11-19-4. - Recovery of lottery ticket value by holder.
Section 11-19-5. - Acts in aid of policy game.
Section 11-19-6. - Possession of policy devices as evidence of knowledge.
Section 11-19-7. - Judicial notice of policy methods.
Section 11-19-8. - Policy devices as evidence of existence of game.
Section 11-19-9. - Illegal trading stamps and coupons.
Section 11-19-10. - Distribution of illegal stamps or coupons.
Section 11-19-11. - Stamps and coupons as inducement to purchase goods.
Section 11-19-12. - Penalty for stamp and coupon violations.
Section 11-19-13. - Door prizes exempt.
Section 11-19-14. - Bookmaking.
Section 11-19-14.1. - Bookmaking at racetrack or fronton — Entry by convicted bookmakers prohibited.
Section 11-19-15. - Betting on horses.
Section 11-19-16. - Forfeiture of horses used in unlawful race.
Section 11-19-17. - Invalidity of instruments won in bets on races or fights.
Section 11-19-18. - Keeping of gambling places or devices — Acting as dealer, banker, or lookout.
Section 11-19-19. - Revocation of license of gambling place.
Section 11-19-20. - Inducing others to visit gambling place.
Section 11-19-21. - Frequenting gambling place.
Section 11-19-22. - Renting for gambling purposes.
Section 11-19-23. - Lease voided by gambling.
Section 11-19-24. - Search warrants and forfeitures of gambling apparatus.
Section 11-19-26. - Destruction of apparatus seized.
Section 11-19-28. - Fees for seizure and removal of gambling apparatus.
Section 11-19-30. - Definitions.
Section 11-19-30.1 - — 11-19-30.3. Repealed.
Section 11-19-31. - Registration of charitable organizations.
Section 11-19-32. - Operation of bingo games.
Section 11-19-32.1. - Senior citizens housing — Bingo allowed.
Section 11-19-32.2. - Senior citizens’ center — Bingo allowed.
Section 11-19-33. - Bingo games — Announcement of prizes.
Section 11-19-34. - Use of name of charitable organization to conduct permitted games of chance.
Section 11-19-34.1. - Senior citizens housing — Raffles allowed.
Section 11-19-35. - Pull-tab lottery tickets.
Section 11-19-36. - Organizations permitted to conduct other permitted games of chance.
Section 11-19-37. - Issuance of licenses.
Section 11-19-38. - Change of information.
Section 11-19-39. - Enforcement and penalties.
Section 11-19-40. - Rules and regulations.
Section 11-19-41. - Police regulation of bingo and permitted games of chance.
Section 11-19-42. - Forfeiture of charter rights and privileges.