Iowa Code 99G.31 – Prizes
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1. The administrator shall award the designated prize to the holder of the ticket or share upon presentation of the winning ticket or confirmation of a winning share. The prize shall be given to only one person as provided in this section; however, a prize shall be divided between holders of winning tickets if there is more than one winning ticket.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 99G.31
- Administrator: means the administrator of the Iowa lottery appointed pursuant to section 99G. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- Board: means the board of directors of the Iowa lottery created in section 99G. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- Child: includes child by adoption. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Department: means the department of revenue. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- Division: means the Iowa lottery division of the department of revenue. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Share: means any intangible evidence of participation in a lottery game. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Ticket: means any tangible evidence issued by the lottery to provide participation in a lottery game. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- Vendor: means a person who provides or proposes to provide goods or services to the department pursuant to a major procurement contract, but does not include an employee of the department under this chapter, a retailer, or a state agency or instrumentality thereof. See Iowa Code 99G.3
2. The division shall only pay prizes for lottery tickets or shares that the department determines were legally purchased, legally possessed, and legally presented.
3. The board shall adopt administrative rules, policies, and procedures to establish a system of verifying the validity of tickets or shares claimed to win prizes and to effect payment of such prizes, subject to the following requirements:
a. The prize shall be given to the person who presents a winning ticket. A prize may be given to only one person per winning ticket. However, a prize shall be divided between holders of winning tickets if there is more than one winning ticket. Payment of a prize may be made to the estate of a deceased prize winner or to another person pursuant to an appropriate judicial order issued by an Iowa court of competent jurisdiction.
b. A prize shall not be paid arising from claimed tickets that are stolen, counterfeit, altered, fraudulent, unissued, produced or issued in error, unreadable, not received, or not recorded by the division within applicable deadlines; lacking in captions that conform and agree with the play symbols as appropriate to the particular lottery game involved; or not in compliance with such additional specific administrative rules, policies, and public or confidential validation and security tests of the division appropriate to the particular lottery game involved.
c. No particular prize in any lottery game shall be paid more than once, and in the event of a determination that more than one claimant is entitled to a particular prize, the sole remedy of such claimants is the award to each of them of an equal share in the prize.
d. Unclaimed prize money for the prize on a winning ticket or share shall be retained for a period deemed appropriate by the administrator, subject to approval by the board. If a valid claim is not made for the money within the applicable period, the unclaimed prize money shall be added to the pool from which future prizes are to be awarded or used for special prize promotions. Notwithstanding this subsection, the disposition of unclaimed prize money from multijurisdictional games shall be made in accordance with the rules of the multijurisdictional game.
e. No prize shall be paid upon a ticket or share purchased or sold in violation of this chapter. Any such prize shall constitute an unclaimed prize for purposes of this section.
f. The division is discharged of all liability upon payment of a prize pursuant to this section.
g. No ticket or share issued by the division shall be purchased by and no prize shall be paid to any member of the board of directors; any officer or employee of the department under this chapter; or to any spouse, child, brother, sister, or parent residing as a member of the same household in the principal place of residence of any such person.
h. No ticket or share issued by the division shall be purchased by and no prize shall be paid to any officer, employee, agent, or subcontractor of any vendor or to any spouse, child, brother, sister, or parent residing as a member of the same household in the principal place of residence of any such person if such officer, employee, agent, or subcontractor has access to confidential information which may compromise the integrity of the lottery.
i. The proceeds of any lottery prize shall be subject to state and federal income tax laws. An amount deducted from the prize for payment of a state tax, pursuant to section 422.16, subsection 2, shall be transferred to the department on behalf of the prize winner.