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Florida Administrative Code (Last Updated: December 2, 2024) |
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53. Department of the Lottery |
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D53. Departmental |
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53ER16. Emergency Rule For Year 2016 |
1(1) Beginning Monday, May 30, 2016, through Sunday, June 12, 2016, (“settlement period”) the Florida Lottery will conduct the $1,000,000 CASHWORD Book Settlement Promotion (“Promotion”) in which Florida Lottery retailers can earn entries into drawings by settling books of $1,000,000 CASHWORD lottery tickets for a chance to win $4,000 prizes.
56(2) Eligibility for Drawing and Entry 62Determination.
63(a) Eligibility for Drawing. In order to be eligible for a drawing, a retailer must have settled at least one $1,000,000 CASHWORD book of tickets during the settlement period.
94(b) Entry Determination. A retailer will earn one entry for each full book of “$1,000,000 CASHWORD” lottery tickets the retailer settles before midnight 119(120ET121) 122on the last day of the settlement period.
130(3) Drawings and Prizes. Eighteen retailer drawings, determined by district and retailer category (corporate or independent), will be conducted by the Florida Lottery using a certified random number generation process. The drawings will be held on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. The number of entries drawn and prizes awarded will be in accordance with the following table186:
187Lottery Sales District
190Prize Per Retailer
193Number of Corporate
196Retailer Prizes
198Number of Independent
201Retailer Prizes
203District 1 205‒ 206Tallahassee
207$4,000
2092
2102
211District 3 213‒ 214Pensacola
215$4,000
2173
2183
219District 4 221‒ 222Jacksonville
223$4,000
2253
2263
227District 5 229‒ 230Gainesville
231$4,000
2333
2343
235District 6 237‒ 238Orlando
239$4,000
2416
2426
243District 9 245‒ 246Tampa
247$4,000
2496
2506
251District 10 253‒ 254Ft. Myers
256$4,000
2583
2593
260District 11 262‒ 263West P265alm Beach
267$4,000
2693
2703
271District 13 273‒ 274Miami
275$4,000
2776
27811
279A total of 75 $4,000 prizes will be awarded in the Promotion.
292An individual retailer location may only win one prize per drawing. Alternate entries will be drawn in each drawing. The number of alterna315te entries drawn will be twice the number of prizes to be awarded in that drawing. Alternate entries will be used as needed in the order in which they are drawn to award a prize in the event a retailer’s entry is disqualified. A retailer will be subject to disqualification from a drawing if the Florida Lottery determines that:
374(a) 375T376he entry is invalid because the retailer settled one or more of the qualifying books of tickets during the promotion period and subsequently unsettled such qualifying book or books of tickets any time up to and including the date of the drawing; or
419(b) 420T421he retailer has already been awarded a prize in that drawing; or
433(c) 434T435he retailer is not in an “active” retailer status at the time of prize payment.
450(4) Retailers will receive their Promotion prize check within approximately 30 days of the 464drawing.
465(5) Winning retailers will not be permitted to return or unsettle $1,000,000 CASHWORD books of tickets except as determined by the Lottery for occurrences 491such as a change of ownership, or suspension or termination of retailer contract.
504(6) A promotional prize will be considered compensation to the retailer for Internal Revenue Service purposes. The Florida Lottery reserves the right to apply the promotional prize awarded against a retailer’s outstanding debt to the Florida Lottery.
541Rulemaking Authority 54324.105(9)(i), 54424.109(1) FS. 546Law Implemented 54824.105(9)(i), 54924.112(1) FS. 551History552–553New 5-26-16.
