Wisconsin Statutes 25.75 – Lottery fund
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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 25.75
- 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
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Following: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next following that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
- 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.
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; "year" alone means "year of our Lord". See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
(1) Definitions. In this section:
(b) “Gross lottery revenues” means gross revenues from the sale of lottery tickets and lottery shares under ch. 565 and revenues from the imposition of fees, if any, under s. 565.10 (8) and includes compensation, including bonuses, if any, paid to retailers under s. 565.10 (14), regardless of whether the compensation is deducted by the retailer prior to transmitting lottery ticket and lottery share revenues to the commission.
(c) “Lottery proceeds” means the remainder of the gross lottery revenues after deducting all of the following:
2. Amounts for prizes.
3. Amounts for other expenses, including compensation paid to retailers under s. 565.10 (14) and amounts paid to vendors for on-line services and supplies provided by the vendors under contract under s. 565.25 (2) (a).
(2) Creation. There is created a separate nonlapsible trust fund known as the lottery fund, to consist of gross lottery revenues received by the department of revenue and moneys transferred to the lottery fund under ss. 20.435 (5) (kg), 20.455 (2) (g), and 20.505 (8) (am) and (g).
(3) Distribution of gross lottery revenues. The distribution of the gross lottery revenues in the fund shall be subject to all of the following:
(a) Prizes. An amount equal to at least 50 percent of each year‘s revenues from the sale of lottery tickets and lottery shares shall be returned as prizes to the holders of winning lottery tickets or lottery shares sold during that year.
(b) Expenses. No more than an amount equal to 10 percent of gross lottery revenues for each year may be expended to pay the expenses for the operation and administration of the lottery, except that expenses for the operation and administration of the lottery may exceed 10 percent of gross lottery revenues if so approved by the joint committee on finance under s. 13.10. In computing expenses subject to the 10 percent limitation under this paragraph:
1. Compensation paid to retailers under s. 565.10 (14) shall not be included.
2. Capital expenditures may be amortized.
3. Payments to vendors for on-line services and supplies provided by the vendors under contract under s. 565.25 (2) (a) shall be included.
4. Moneys appropriated from the lottery fund under s. 20.455 (2) (r) shall not be included.
(e) Offset of expenses. From the appropriation under s. 20.566 (2) (r), lottery proceeds shall be used to offset department of revenue expenses in administering the lottery credit.