99G.3 - DEFINITIONS.
99G.3 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires
otherwise:
1. "Administrative expenses" includes, but is not limited to,
personnel costs, travel, purchase of equipment, and all other
expenses not directly associated with the operation or sale of a
game.
2. "Authority" means the Iowa lottery authority.
3. "Board" means the board of directors of the authority.
4. "Chief executive officer" means the chief executive
officer of the authority.
5. "Game specific rules" means rules governing the particular
features of specific games, including, but not limited to, setting
the name, ticket price, prize structure, and prize claim period of
the game.
6. "Instant lottery" or "instant ticket" means a game
that offers preprinted tickets such that when a protective coating is
scratched or scraped away, it indicates immediately whether the
player has won.
7. "Lottery", "lotteries", "lottery game", "lottery
games", or "lottery products" means any game of chance approved
by the board and operated pursuant to this chapter and games using
mechanical or electronic devices, provided that the authority shall
not authorize a monitor vending machine or a player-activated gaming
machine that utilizes an internal randomizer to determine winning and
nonwinning plays and that upon random internal selection of a winning
play dispenses coins, currency, or a ticket, credit, or token to the
player that is redeemable for cash or a prize, and excluding gambling
or gaming conducted pursuant to chapter 99B, 99D, or 99F.
8. "Major procurement contract" means a consulting agreement
or a contract with a business organization for the printing of
tickets or the purchase or lease of equipment or services essential
to the operation of a lottery game.
9. "Monitor vending machine" means a machine or other similar
electronic device that includes a video monitor and audio
capabilities that dispenses to a purchaser lottery tickets that have
been determined to be winning or losing tickets by a predetermined
pool drawing machine prior to the dispensing of the tickets.
10. "Net proceeds" means all revenue derived from the sale of
lottery tickets or shares and all other moneys derived from the
lottery, less operating expenses.
11. "On-line lotto" means a lottery game connected to a
central computer via telecommunications in which the player selects a
specified group of numbers, symbols, or characters out of a
predetermined range.
12. "Operating expenses" means all costs of doing business,
including, but not limited to, prizes and associated prize reserves,
computerized gaming system vendor expense, instant and pull-tab
ticket expense, and other expenses directly associated with the
operation or sale of any game, compensation paid to retailers,
advertising and marketing costs, and administrative expenses.
13. "Pull-tab ticket" or "pull-tab" means a game that
offers preprinted paper tickets with the play data hidden beneath a
protective tab or seal that when opened reveals immediately whether
the player has won.
14. "Retailer" means a person, licensed by the authority, who
sells lottery tickets or shares on behalf of the authority pursuant
to a contract.
15. "Share" means any intangible evidence of participation in
a lottery game.
16. "Ticket" means any tangible evidence issued by the
lottery to provide participation in a lottery game.
17. "Vendor" means a person who provides or proposes to
provide goods or services to the authority pursuant to a major
procurement contract, but does not include an employee of the
authority, a retailer, or a state agency or instrumentality thereof.
Section History: Recent Form
2003 Acts, ch 178, §65, 121; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §142; 2006 Acts,
ch 1005, §1, 2, 4, 5
Referred to in § 725.12