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§29-22-1. Short Title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
§29-22-2. Legislative Findings and Intent - The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this...
§29-22-3. Definitions - (a) "State Lottery Commission" or "commission" means the state Lottery...
§29-22-4. State Lottery Commission Created; Composition; Qualifications; Appointment; Terms of Office; Chairman's Removal; Vacancies; Compensation and Expenses; Quorum; Oath and Bond - (a) There is hereby created a State Lottery Commission which...
§29-22-5. State Lottery Commission; Powers and Duties; Cooperation of Other Agencies - (a) The commission has the authority to: (1) Promulgate rules...
§29-22-6. Lottery Director; Appointment; Qualifications; Oath and Bond; Salary - (a) There is hereby created the position of the lottery...
§29-22-7. Divisions of the State Lottery Office - There shall be established within the state lottery office a...
§29-22-8. Lottery Director; Powers and Duties; Deputy Directors; Hiring of Staff; Civil Service Coverage; Submission of Proposed Appropriations - (a) The director shall have the authority to: (1) Appoint,...
§29-22-9. Initiation and Operation of Lottery; Restrictions; Prohibited Themes, Games, Machines, or Devices; Distinguishing Numbers; Winner Selection; Public Drawings; Witnessing of Results; Testing and Inspection of Equipment; Price of Tickets; Clai... - (a) The commission shall initiate operation of the state lottery...
§29-22-9a. Veterans Instant Lottery Scratch-Off Game - (a) Beginning September 1, 2000, the commission shall establish an...
§29-22-10. Licensed Lottery Sales Agents; Restrictions; Annual License and Fee; Factors; Application; Bond; Age; Nonassignable License; Organizations Qualified; Commissions; Display of License; Geographic Distribution; Monopoly Prohibited; Lottery Re... - (a) The commission shall propose rules for legislative approval in...
§29-22-11. Prohibited Acts; Restrictions on Sales Agents and Retailers; Unauthorized Sales; Sales to Minors; Gifts to Minors; Prizes to Commission Officers and Staff Prohibited; Criminal Penalties for Prohibited Acts - (a) No person may sell lottery tickets or materials unless...
§29-22-12. Crimes; Forgery, Counterfeiting, etc. of Lottery Tickets; Penalties - Any person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, alters,...
§29-22-13. Prohibited Acts; Conflict of Interest; Prohibited Gifts and Gratuities - (1) The commissioners, the director, the deputy directors and the...
§29-22-14. Administrative Violations of Articles; Hearing; Administrative Penalties - (a) In addition to any criminal penalty imposed under the...
§29-22-15. Payment of Prizes to Minors - If the person entitled to a prize or any winning...
§29-22-15a. Option for Winners of Draw Games to Remain Anonymous - (a) A person entitled to collect a gross prize equal...
§29-22-16. Disposition of Unclaimed Prize Money - Unclaimed prize money for the prize on a winning ticket...
§29-22-17. Lottery Proceeds; Accounting Therefor; Deposit Into Account of State Treasurer; Reports; Funds to Be Held in Trust; Failure to Collect, Account or Deposit; Personal Liability - (a) The commission shall establish rules and regulations for accounting...
§29-22-18. State Lottery Fund; Appropriations and Deposits; Not Part of General Revenue; No Transfer of State Funds After Initial Appropriation; Use and Repayment of Initial Appropriation; Allocation of Fund for Prizes, Net Profit and Expenses; Surpl... - (a) There is continued a Special Revenue Fund in the...
§29-22-18a. State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund - (a) The State Lottery Fund in the State Treasury which...
§29-22-18b. Definition of Term &Quot;state employees." - As used in subsection (b), section eighteen-a of this article,...
§29-22-18c. Increase in Allocation to Higher Education Improvement Fund From State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund - Notwithstanding any provision of subsection (d), section eighteen-a of this...
§29-22-18d. Increase in Allocation to West Virginia Infrastructure Fund From State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund - Notwithstanding any provision of subsection (d), section eighteen-a of this...
§29-22-18e. Increase in Allocation to State Park Improvement Fund From State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to Permit the Issuance of Bonds for Improvements to Cacapon Resort State Park and Beech Fork State Park - Notwithstanding any provision of §29-22-18a(d) of this code to the...
§29-22-18f. Backup Pledge of Bonds Supported by the State Lottery Fund and the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund; Payment of Bond Debt Service - (a) Any and all remaining funds in the State Excess...
§29-22-19. Post Audit of Accounts and Transactions of Office - Before July 1, 2001 and at least every two fiscal...
§29-22-20. Monthly and Annual Reports - (a) The director shall, upon the twentieth day of each...
§29-22-21. Officials Who May Appear at Lottery Drawing - No elected or appointed official, other than the members of...
§29-22-23. Procurement; Disclosures by Vendors and Related Persons and Entities; Authorizing Background Investigation; Unenforceability of Contracts in Contravention of Section - (a) The commission shall utilize the provisions of article three,...
§29-22-24. Disclosures by Vendors and Related Persons and Entities of Political Contributions - (a) For purposes of this section: "Vendor" means any person...
§29-22-25. Preemption of State Laws or Local Regulation - (a) No state or local law or regulation providing any...
§29-22-27. Penalties for Criminal Violations - (a) Any person violating any of the provisions of this...
§29-22-27a. Payment of Prizes to the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement - (a) Upon notification by the Bureau for Child Support enforcement...
§29-22-28. Severability - If any provision of this article or the application thereof...
§29-22-29. Moneys Transferred or Allocated to Nongovernmental Entities Are State Moneys and Have Been So in the Past; Right to Audit State Moneys Transferred to Nongovernmental Entities - (a) Moneys transferred by the commission under provisions of this...
§29-22-30. Methods of Payment for Lottery Prizes - Notwithstanding any provision of this article or any rule to...