§ 11-19-35 - Pull-tab lottery tickets.
SECTION 11-19-35
§ 11-19-35 Pull-tab lottery tickets.– (a) The Rhode Island lottery commission is empowered to sell and regulate thesale of pull-tab lottery tickets to religious, fraternal, civic, educational,veterans', or charitable organizations. The commission shall determine,consistent with this section, those organizations that are authorized to sellpull-tab lottery tickets and shall insure that the pull tab lottery tickets tobe distributed are secured for the purposes under which they are to be sold interms of concealing the result of the tickets until the time that they are soldto the general public. Consistent with this section, those organizationsauthorized to sell the tickets are authorized to retain net profits as shallhave been provided for by the commission.
(b) Notwithstanding any other section of the general laws tothe contrary, pull-tab lottery tickets authorized by this section are declaredto be legal.