Prize rights un-assignable
Compiled text through Apr 10, 2024
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
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Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Current section with Register check
- Compiled text through
- Apr 10, 2024
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Latest notice
- SGC-34-23-00012-A · Adopted rule · Dec 20, 2023
- Source snapshot
- Jun 24, 2026
(a)No right of any person to a prize shall be assignable, except that any prize may be paid to the estate of a deceased prize winner, and except that any assignee, pursuant to an appropriate judicial order of a court of competent jurisdiction, may be paid the prize to which the winner is entitled. For the purposes of this section, payment of a prize or a portion thereof to any of the agencies described in this section shall be deemed to be paid pursuant to an appropriate judicial order of a court of competent jurisdiction. The commission shall be discharged of all liability upon payment of a prize pursuant to this section. A prize, or a portion thereof, may be paid to: (1) the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, pursuant to an agreement under Tax Law section 1613-a where the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance has informed the commission that the claimant has failed to obey a court order requiring the claimant to pay past-due support; (2) the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, pursuant to an agreement under Tax Law section 1613-b where the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance has identified the claimant as a recipient of public assistance benefits who is liable to reimburse the State for such benefits; and (3) the Department of Taxation and Finance, pursuant to an agreement under Tax Law section 1613-c where the Department of Taxation and Finance has informed the commission that the claimant has past-due tax liabilities. (b) Any potential assignee seeking a court-ordered assignment pursuant to Tax Law section 1613(d) shall pay to the commission a processing fee of $435 per assignment in connection with consideration of such assignment, as authorized by Tax Law section 1613(d)(7). If the Commission incurs costs exceeding such fee for a particular assignment, the Commission may assess and collect from the potential or actual assignee an additional fee of $86.50 for each hour expended in relation to the consideration or administration of such proposed or ordered assignment, less the original processing fee.