Subscription application requirements
Compiled text through Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
No later Register activity identified in this check.
Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Westlaw Inline Boundary Correction
- Compiled text through
- Sep 15, 2021
- 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-52-15-00005-A · Adopted rule · Mar 16, 2016
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)To be accepted for entry without changes, a subscription application must meet the following requirements:
(1)Each game panel must contain the required amount of unduplicated game numbers selected from the numbers available for the game that the applicant indicates on his or her application. If a game panel submitted by an applicant contains no game numbers or fewer than the required amount of game numbers, the quick pick option may be used to randomly select game numbers. If an applicant submits an application with more than the required amount of game numbers circled in a game panel, the commission may select the required number of game numbers consecutively from among such selected numbers. All other numbers may be disregarded.
(2)The application must include the applicant’s identifying information, including identifying information for each member of a group applicant. If an application is submitted without complete applicant identifying information, the commission may seek additional information from the applicant. Regardless of whether the applicant responds with additional information requested by the commission, the application may, nevertheless, be accepted if there is sufficient information to identify by name at least one individual applicant or one individual member of a group applicant. In such case, the commission may pay any prize won by the subscription to any person identifiable as an applicant or as a member of a group applicant from the incomplete applicant identifying information submitted with the application, and such payment may be reported to the appropriate taxing authorities as income paid to such person with any required withholding tax to be credited to such person.
(b)An application may be rejected for any of the following reasons:
(1)if the application is illegible in whole or in part;
(2)if the application includes a form of payment that is not acceptable to the commission;
(3)if the applicant is under the age of 18; or
(4)if the applicant does not submit a New York State address for a subscription submitted through the U.S. mail.
(c)A subscription may be terminated after acceptance if, before or after the start date, the commission is notified that the payment for the subscription is invalid, e.g., a check returned for insufficient funds. In such event, the subscription shall be deemed invalid and no prizes will be paid to the applicant during any period in which the subscription was invalid.