Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 74 > Article 87 - State Lottery

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Ancillary lottery gaming facility operations: means additional non-lottery facility game products and services not owned and operated by the state that may be included in the overall development associated with the lottery gaming facility. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Auto racetrack facility: means the same as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• bet: means a bargain in which the parties agree that, dependent upon chance, one stands to win or lose something of value specified in the agreement. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Commission: means the Kansas lottery commission. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Electronic gaming machine: means any electronic, electromechanical, video or computerized device, contrivance or machine authorized by the Kansas lottery that, 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 that may deliver or entitle the player operating the machine to receive cash, tokens, merchandise or credits that may be redeemed for cash. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executive director: means the executive director of the Kansas lottery. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Gaming equipment: means any electric, electronic, computerized or electromechanical machine, mechanism, supply or device or any other equipment, that is: (1) Unique to the Kansas lottery and used pursuant to the Kansas lottery act; (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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Instant bingo vending machine: means a machine or electronic device that is purchased or leased by a licensee, as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Interactive sports wagering platform: means an integrated system of hardware, software and applications, including, but not limited to, mobile applications and servers, through which sports wagering may be made available to persons physically located within the state of Kansas at the time of submitting the wager to a sports wagering manager over the internet or wireless services as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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.
• Kansas lottery: means the state agency created by this act to operate a lottery or lotteries pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Lottery facility games: means any electronic gaming machines and any other games that are authorized to be conducted or operated at any licensed gaming facilities in the United States. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Lottery gaming enterprise: means an entertainment enterprise that 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Lottery gaming facility: means that portion of a building used for the purposes of operating, managing and maintaining lottery facility games. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Lottery gaming facility revenues: means the total revenues from lottery facility games at a lottery gaming facility after all related prizes are paid. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Lottery retailer: means any person with whom the Kansas lottery has contracted to sell lottery tickets or shares, or both, to the public. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702

• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Marketing agreement: means an agreement entered into between a professional sports team or other marketing entity and a lottery gaming facility manager for the purposes described in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Marketing entity: means :

  (1) A corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other business entity registered to do business in this state; or

  (2) a nonprofit fraternal or veterans organization. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702

• Match-fixing: means to arrange or determine any action that occurs during a sporting event, including, but not limited to, any action resulting in the final outcome of such sporting event, for financial gain. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Nonprofit fraternal organization: means any organization within this state that exists for the common benefit, brotherhood or other interests of its members and is authorized by its written constitution, charter, articles of incorporation or bylaws to engage in a fraternal, civic or service purpose within this state and has been determined by the executive director to be organized and operated as a bona fide fraternal organization and that has been exempted from the payment of federal income taxes as provided by section 501(c)(8) or section 501(c)(10) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, or determined to be organized and operated as a bona fide nonprofit fraternal organization by the executive director. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Parimutuel licensee: means a facility owner licensee or facility manager licensee under the Kansas parimutuel racing act. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Parimutuel licensee location: means a racetrack facility, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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: means any natural person, association, limited liability company, corporation or partnership. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Primary facility: means the stadium or arena where a professional sports team hosts competitive games in accordance with such team's league rules. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Professional sports team: means an athletic team, whose primary facility is located in Kansas, that operates at the major league level in the sport of baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey or soccer. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Racetrack gaming facility: means that portion of a parimutuel licensee location where electronic gaming machines are operated, managed and maintained. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Sporting event: means any professional or collegiate sport or athletic event, motor race event or any other special event authorized by the commission that has not occurred at the time wagers are placed on such event. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Sports governing body: means the organization that prescribes the final rules and enforces codes of conduct with respect to a sporting event and the participants in such event. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Sports wagering: includes , but is not limited to, single game wagers, teaser wagers, parlays, over-under wagers, moneyline wagers, pools, exchange wagering, in-game wagers, in-play wagers, proposition wagers, straight wagers and such other wagers approved by the commission. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Sports wagering revenues: means wagering revenue generated from sports wagering that is an amount equal to the total wagers less any voided wagers, federal excise taxes, free plays or other promotional credits and any amounts paid as prizes. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Sports wagering supplier: means a person providing goods, services, software or any other components necessary for the determination of the odds or the outcomes of any wager on a sporting event, directly or indirectly, to a lottery gaming facility manager, including data feeds and odds services, that is licensed under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• state lottery: means the lottery or lotteries operated pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Ticket: means any tangible evidence issued by the Kansas lottery to prove participation in a lottery game, including a sports wager, other than a lottery facility game. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Token: means a representative of value, of metal or other material, that is not legal tender, redeemable for cash only by the issuing lottery gaming facility manager or racetrack gaming facility manager and that 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Vendor: means any person who has entered into a major procurement contract with the Kansas lottery. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• 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. See Kansas Statutes 74-8702