61 Pa. Code § 819.231 — Procedure for claiming and payment of prizes

PRIZES (a) A prize shall be claimed through licensed lottery sales retailers. (b) A prize shall be claimed within 1 year of the announced close of the instant lottery game. (c) A lottery sales retailer is required to perform a validation process on all instant prize levels by entering certain data elements from the ticket through the terminal, or by using onsite bar code units provided by the Lottery and make immediate payment of authorized prizes up to and including $100. (d) Other prizes shall be claimed at the lottery sales retailer. The retailer shall complete proper validation steps as outlined in the Pennsylvania Lottery Retailers Operating Procedure Manual and under § § 811.11—811.17 (relating to procedure for claiming prizes). (e) The payment of a prize to a person who dies before receiving a particular prize or to a person 17 years of age or younger shall be paid according to § § 811.16 and 811.27 (relating to prizes payable after death of a prize winner; and payment of prizes to persons under 18 years of age). (f) The Commonwealth is discharged from liability upon the payment of a prize under § 811.26 (relating to discharge of State liability upon payment). Source The provisions of this § 819.231 adopted December 17, 1993, effective December 18, 1993, 23 Pa.B. 5916. No part of the information on this site may be reproduced for profit or sold for profit. This material has been drawn directly from the official Pennsylvania Code full text database. Due to the limitations of HTML or differences in display capabilities of different browsers, this version may differ slightly from the official printed version.