California Government Code 8880.48 – (a) The director shall, pursuant to this chapter and the …
(a) The director shall, pursuant to this chapter and the regulations of the commission, select as lottery game retailers those persons and organizations as the director deems shall best serve the public convenience and promote the sale of tickets or shares. No person under the age of 18 years shall be a lottery game retailer. In the selection of lottery game retailers, the director shall consider factors such as financial responsibility, integrity, reputation, accessibility of the place of business or activity to the public, security of the premises, the sufficiency of existing lottery game retailers to serve the public convenience, and the projected volume of the sales for the lottery game involved.
(b) In order to allow an evaluation of the competence, integrity, and character of potential lottery game retailers, the commission may require information it deems necessary of any person, corporation, trust, association, partnership, or joint venture applying for authority to act as a lottery game retailer.
Terms Used In California Government Code 8880.48
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company. See California Government Code 17
- Process: includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature. See California Government Code 22
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
(c) No person shall be a lottery game retailer if the person is engaged exclusively in the business of selling lottery tickets or shares. A person lawfully engaged in nongovernmental business on state property, an owner or lessee of an establishment which sells alcoholic beverages, and a civic and fraternal organization may be selected as a lottery game retailer. The director may contract with lottery game retailers on a seasonal or temporary basis.
(d) The commission shall establish a formal written appeal process concerning the denial of an application for, or revocation of, a contract to be a lottery game retailer.
(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 764, Sec. 11. Effective November 14, 2008. Note: This section was added on Nov. 6, 1984, by initiative Prop. 37.)