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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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53ER17. Emergency Rule For Year 2017 |
1(1) The Florida Lottery will conduct, as a retailer sales incentive, a Retailer MEGA MILLIONS16® 17Bonus Commission Program (“Program”) in which the Florida Lottery will award bonus commissions to Florida Lottery retailers who sell a winning jackpot MEGA MILLIONS ticket for a Tuesday or Friday MEGA MILLIONS drawing.
50(2) 51The bonus commission will start at $20,00059.00 60for a $40,63000,000.00 65million starting jackpot. In the event no winning jackpot ticket is sold for a MEGA MILLIONS drawing, the bonus commission amount will increase by $5,00091.00 92per drawing until a winning jackpot ticket is sold, up to a maximum bonus commission of $100,000110.00111.
112(3) If multiple winning jackpot tickets are sold in Florida for the same MEGA MILLIONS drawing, the retailers selling such tickets will share the bonus commission. Each retailer selling a winning jackpot ticket will receive a share of the bonus equal to the number of winning jackpot tickets sold by that particular retailer divided by the total number of winning jackpot tickets sold in Florida for that drawing.
180(4) If a winning jackpot ticket is a MEGA MILLIONS with Megaplier192® 193ticket, an additional $20,000198.00 199bonus commission will be paid to the retailer selling such ticket. If multiple winning jackpot tickets are MEGA MILLIONS with Megaplier tickets, each retailer selling such a ticket will be paid the additional bonus commission.
234(5) Florida Lottery retailers who sell a 241MEGA MILLIONS 243ticket that matches 5+0 numbers will receive a $1,000253.00 254bonus commission.
256(6) Florida Lottery retailers who sell a 263MEGA MILLIONS 265with Megaplier267® 268ticket that matches 5+0 numbers will receive a $5,000278.00 279bonus commission.
281(7) Award of a bonus commission is not dependent upon the MEGA MILLIONS winning jackpot ticket, 297MEGA MILLIONS 5+0 winning ticket or 303MEGA MILLIONS 305with Megaplier 5+0 winning ticket 310being claimed by the winner.
315(8) Retailers whose Florida Lottery contracts are terminated or inactivated prior to the bonus commission award shall be paid the bonus commission earned provided said termination or inactivation was not due to noncompliance with Chapter 24, F.S., Chapter 53, F.A.C355., 356or contract terms.
359(9) A bonus commission will be considered compensation to the retailer for Internal Revenue Service purposes. The Florida Lottery reserves the right to apply a bonus commission earned against a retailer’s outstanding debt to the Florida Lottery, and to award the remaining balance of the bonus commission, if any.
408(10) MEGA MILLIONS bonus commissions are subject to availability of funds appropriated for retailer incentives. This Program is subject to cancellation by future emergency rule if retailer incentive funding is not appropriated or if the Florida Lottery determines that it is no longer in the state’s best interest to u458se such funds for this purpose.
464(11) This emergency rule replaces Emergency Rule 53ER13-68, F.A.C.
473Rulemaking Authority 47524.105(9)(i), 47624.109(1) FS. 478Law Implemented 48024.105(9)(i), 48124.112(1) FS. 483History–New 12-28-17, Replaces 53ER13-68.
