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Assembly Bill A1287

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires lottery sales agents to return previously purchased lottery tickets to the persons submitting them to such agents for verification of prizes

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2015-A1287 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง1613-d, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A9953
2011-2012: A3708
2013-2014: A2330
2017-2018: A1823
2019-2020: A4464
2021-2022: A3751
2023-2024: A3468

2015-A1287 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires lottery sales agents to return previously purchased lottery tickets to the persons submitting them to such agents for verification of prizes won or lost; requires lottery ticket dispensing machines used for verifying if a ticket is a winner or not to return the ticket submitted for verification.

2015-A1287 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1287

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 9, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Racing and Wagering

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in  relation  to  requiring  lottery  sales
  agents  to  return  previously purchased lottery tickets to the person
  submitting them to such agent for verification of prizes

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The  tax law is amended by adding a new section 1613-d to
read as follows:
  S 1613-D. PRIZE VERIFICATION BY LOTTERY SALES AGENTS.  ANY  PREVIOUSLY
PURCHASED  LOTTERY TICKET SUBMITTED TO A LOTTERY SALES AGENT FOR VERIFI-
CATION OF WHETHER OR NOT ANY PRIZE WAS WON ON  ACCOUNT  OF  SUCH  TICKET
SHALL  BE  RETURNED BY SUCH AGENT TO THE PERSON WHO SUBMITTED THE TICKET
IMMEDIATELY AFTER SUCH VERIFICATION IS COMPLETED.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first  of  the  calendar  month
next succeeding the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05463-01-5

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