Ticket sales
Compiled text through Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
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Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Later rule activity found; update pending
- Compiled text through
- Sep 15, 2021
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- Later Register activity found — review the notice before relying on the compiled text.
- Latest notice
- SGC-48-25-00022-A · Adopted rule · Feb 18, 2026
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)Price charged.
Tax Law section 1609(a) governs restrictions on the price charged for lottery tickets and who may sell lottery tickets. In addition, a courier service may charge a convenience charge to a courier customer for services approved by the commission pursuant to Part 5014 of this Title. Any such fee shall be deemed to be independent of a ticket price and shall be subject to the requirements of section 5014.19 of this Title.
(b)No ticket for a lottery may be sold after the commencement of a drawing for that particular lottery or after a final ticket sales date is announced by the commission.
(c)
(1)No ticket shall be sold to any person under the age of 18 but this shall not prohibit the purchase of a ticket for the purpose of making a gift by a person 18 years of age or older to a person less than that age.
(2)The commission shall penalize a licensee found to have violated paragraph (1) of this subdivision as follows:
(i)for a first violation, a written warning of such violation;
(ii)for a second violation within one year of a violation, a fine of $500;
(iii)for a third violation within one year of a violation, a fine of $1,000; and
(iv)for a fourth or subsequent violation within one year of a violation, such further action as the commission may deem appropriate, which may include without limitation the suspension or revocation of any license or privilege to sell lottery tickets.
(d)All ticket sales shall be final and no ticket return shall be accepted by a lottery sales agent except as otherwise provided by the commission.