Lucky Lotto Collect & Win Promotion.

 

DEPARTMENT OF THE LOTTERY

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

53ER14-19Lucky Lotto Collect & Win Promotion.

SUMMARY: This emergency rule describes the Lucky Lotto Collect & Win Promotion in which players will have the chance to win a tablet, up to $7,777 in cash or a trip to Ireland.

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE EMERGENCY RULE IS: Diane D. Schmidt, Legal Analyst, Department of the Lottery, 250 Marriott Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-4011

 

THE FULL TEXT OF THE EMERGENCY RULE IS:

 

53ER14-19 Lucky Lotto Collect & Win Promotion.

(1) Beginning Monday, March 17, 2014, through Sunday, April 27, 2014, the Florida Lottery will conduct the Lucky Lotto Collect & Win Promotion (“Promotion”). Players who purchase a FLORIDA LOTTO® or FLORIDA LOTTO® with XTRA ticket of any price point can scan the barcode on their tickets using a smartphone or tablet, or can manually enter the ticket number on the Florida Lottery’s website to collect lucky symbols for a chance to win a tablet, up to $7,777 in cash or a trip to Ireland. Both winning and non-winning FLORIDA LOTTO tickets may be used to enter the Promotion. Only FLORIDA LOTTO tickets purchased during the promotion period may be used to enter the Promotion including FLORIDA LOTTO tickets associated with JACKPOT COMBO and the BIG 3 POWER PACK in Miami and West Palm Beach sales districts.

(2) FLA Lucky Lotto App Download and Registration. A player may participate in the Lucky Lotto Collect & Win Promotion by downloading the free FLA Lucky Lotto app at the iTunes® Store for iOS devices or at Google Play® for Android® devices. For easy access to the app, a QR code will be printed below the barcode on FLORIDA LOTTO tickets during the Promotion period for the player to scan with a rear-facing camera on a smartphone or tablet. A QR code will also appear on Lucky Lotto Collect & Win Promotion point-of-sale materials displayed at Florida Lottery retailers. FLORIDA LOTTO tickets associated with JACKPOT COMBO and the BIG 3 POWER PACK will not contain a QR code or entry instructions. After the app is downloaded, the player will be prompted to register his or her contact information and will be sent an email directing the player to confirm his or her registration. The player should check the junk mail or spam folder if he or she does not promptly receive an email confirmation. Thereafter, the player may login using his or her email and password. A player may also participate in the Promotion by visiting the Lottery’s homepage, flalottery.com, clicking on the Lucky Lotto Collect & Win banner and following the directions, or by going directly to flalottery.com/luckylotto. Regardless of whether a player chooses to participate in the Promotion by smartphone, tablet  or computer, he or she may use the same account login information to enter tickets, will only be required to register one time and the player’s entry history will be cumulative.

(3) How to Enter. To collect lucky symbols, a player may scan the barcode on the bottom of a FLORIDA LOTTO ticket using a rear-facing camera on a smartphone or tablet, or a player may manually enter the 19-digit ticket number located above the bar code at flalottery.com/luckylotto. One of four play cards will appear on the screen. Each play card contains six spots. Each ticket number entered will randomly generate one of six lucky play symbols and place it in the next available spot on the next available play card. Once a symbol has been collected on all four play cards, the symbol will be eliminated from the random selection process. When a single play card is filled up with all six different symbols, an entry is generated into the next available drawing and the play card is reset to capture more symbols towards the next entry. A player will earn an entry with a minimum of 6 tickets to a maximum of 21 tickets scanned or entered. A player may earn multiple entries during the contest period; however, a player may only manually enter or scan up to two hundred tickets per day. Each ticket number can only be scanned or entered one time. Entries that include tickets with invalid ticket numbers or tickets that have been canceled will be disqualified from the applicable drawing or drawings. The odds of winning depend on the number of entries in each drawing. All entries are subject to validation by the Florida Lottery and may be disqualified if eligibility requirements are not met. FLORIDA LOTTO tickets should not be mailed to the Lottery. Tickets received in the mail by the Florida Lottery will not be entered into the Promotion and will not be returned.

(4) Drawings. Four weekly computerized drawings will be held between Tuesday, April 1, 2014, and Tuesday, April 22, 2014, and winners will be randomly selected from entries received during the entry periods shown below. Entries are good for only one weekly drawing. However, one Grand Prize drawing will be held on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, and will include all entries received between March 17, 2014, and 11:59 p.m. ET on April 27, 2014, excluding entries previously selected for a weekly prize. Winners will be randomly selected. The drawing dates and entry periods are as follows:

 

Weekly Drawing	Drawing Date	Entry Period*
1	Tuesday, April 1, 2014	March 17, 2014 – March 30, 2014
2	Tuesday, April 8, 2014	March 31, 2014 – April 6, 2014
3	Tuesday, April 15, 2014	April 7, 2014 – April 13, 2014
4	Tuesday, April 22, 2014	April 14, 2014 –April 20, 2014
Grand Prize Drawing	Tuesday, April 29, 2014	March 17, 2014  - April 27, 2014
* The entry submission deadline is before midnight ET on the last day of the entry period.

(5) Prizes. In each of the four weekly drawings, two winners will each win a first prize of $7,777, ten winners will each win a second prize of $777 and ten winners will each win a third prize of a tablet. A total of eighty-eight prizes will be awarded in the weekly drawings. In the Grand Prize drawing, ten winners will each win a grand prize of a trip to Ireland and twenty winners will each win a second prize of $7,777. A total of thirty prizes will be awarded in the Grand Prize Drawing. A grand total of one hundred eighteen prizes will be awarded in the Promotion.

(6) Winner Selection-Weekly Drawings. In each of the four weekly drawings, the first two valid entries drawn will each win a first prize. The third through twelfth valid entries drawn will each win a second prize and will serve as alternate winners in the order drawn for a first prize in the event a first prize cannot be awarded. The thirteenth through twenty-second valid entries drawn will each win a third prize. The twenty-third through thirty-third valid entries drawn will be used in the order in which they were drawn and in the order of need to select an alternate second or third prize winner in the event a second or third prize cannot be awarded. The Florida Lottery will attempt to notify each first, second and third prize winner by telephone, U.S. mail or email using the contact information provided in the winner’s registration data no later than twenty-four hours after the winners are posted on the Florida Lottery’s website. If the Florida Lottery is unable to have personal contact with a first, second or third prize winner within two weeks of the date the winners are posted on the website, the winner will forfeit his or her right to claim the prize and the Florida Lottery will award the prize to the first available alternate winner from the applicable pool of alternates described above. If the Florida Lottery is unable to have personal contact with the first available alternate winner within two weeks of the award of prize, the first alternate winner will forfeit his or her right to claim the prize and the Florida Lottery will award the prize to the second available alternate winner. This process will continue until an alternate is contacted or the Florida Lottery has exhausted the list of available alternates, in which case the prize will not be awarded. An alternate winner of a first prize that has been awarded a second prize at the time of notification will receive the difference between the first and second prize.

(7) Winner Selection- Grand Prize Drawing. In the grand prize drawing, the first through tenth valid entries drawn will each win a grand prize and the eleventh through thirtieth valid entries drawn will each win a second prize. The thirty-first through the forty-fifth valid entries drawn will be used in the order in which they were drawn and in order of need to select an alternate grand or second prize winner in the event a grand or second prize cannot be awarded. The Florida Lottery will attempt to notify each grand and second prize winner by telephone, U.S. mail or email using the contact information provided in the winner’s registration data no later than twenty-four hours after the winners are posted on the Florida Lottery’s website. If the Florida Lottery is unable to have personal contact with a grand or second prize winner within two weeks of the date the winners are posted on the website, the winner will forfeit his or her right to claim the prize and the Florida Lottery will award the prize to the first available alternate winner. If the Florida Lottery is unable to have personal contact with the first available alternate winner within two weeks of the award of prize, the first alternate winner will forfeit his or her right to claim the prize and the Florida Lottery will award the prize to the second available alternate winner. This process will continue until an alternate is contacted or the Florida Lottery has exhausted the list of available alternates, in which case the prize will not be awarded.

(8) How to Claim a Prize. To claim a prize in a weekly or grand prize drawing, the winner must submit to the Florida Lottery a completed Winner Claim Form DOL-173-2, revised 9/13, or Spanish Winner Claim Form DOL-173-2S, revised 9/13, and a copy of acceptable identification. A third prize winner in a weekly drawing and a grand prize winner in the grand prize drawing must also submit a notarized Florida Lottery Release and Authorization form DOL-474, revised 8/13, or Spanish Florida Lottery Release and Authorization Form DOL-474S, effective 8/13. Forms DOL-173-2, DOL-173-2S, DOL-474 and DOL-474S are hereby incorporated by reference and can be obtained from any Lottery office, from the Lottery’s website, www.flalottery.com, or by writing to: Florida Lottery, Customer Service, 250 Marriott Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-4016. The required forms must be received by the Florida Lottery no later than two weeks after the winner is notified by the Florida Lottery that he or she is a winner. If the Florida Lottery has not received the required forms by the fourteenth day after notification, the winner will forfeit his or her right to claim the prize and the Florida Lottery will award the prize to an alternate winner as described in subsections (6) and (7), above, as applicable. A prizewinner in this Promotion is not required to submit the FLORIDA LOTTO tickets he or she scanned or manually entered to generate an entry in order to claim a prize.

(9) Award of Weekly Drawing Prizes.

(a) First Prize. Upon receipt of a first prize winner’s required documentation, the Florida Lottery will award a prize of $7,777, less applicable tax withholding.

(b) Second Prize. Upon receipt of a second prize winner’s required documentation, the Florida Lottery will award a prize of $777.

(c) Third Prize. Upon receipt of a third prize winner’s required documentation, the Florida Lottery will award a prize of a tablet. The Florida Lottery will notify the fulfillment company of the name and contact information of the prize winner and the fulfillment company shall ship the tablet to the prizewinner within five business days of the date the fulfillment company verifies the winner’s information and confirms the winner’s tablet selection. The winner will have the choice of one of four tablets valued up to $599. A cash option is not available in lieu of tablet prizes.

(10) Award of Grand Prize Drawing Prizes.

(a) Grand Prize. Upon receipt of a grand prize winner’s required documentation, the Florida Lottery will award an Ireland trip package and provide the winner a certificate describing the prize and containing the name and contact information for the winner to contact to make reservations to fulfill the trip. Each trip package consists of the following:

1. Roundtrip coach class airfare for two persons from Miami, Florida to Dublin, Ireland;

2. Premium accommodations in 4-star hotels for seven nights;

3. Dinner for two persons for three nights;

4. Daily breakfast for two persons, excluding the day of arrival;

5. Transportation between the airport and hotel*;

6. Transportation and cost of guide for guided tours to six different sites in Ireland; and

7. $4,000.

*Transfers to the hotel from the airport will be at 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on the day of arrival; transfers from the hotel to the airport will be at 6:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on the day of departure. Winners who arrive after 12:00 noon on the day of arrival or who desire to leave the hotel at a time other than the scheduled transfers on the day of departure will be responsible for transferring to the hotel or airport at their own expense.

The estimated value of the grand prize, including the cash portion, is $10,000. The actual value of the grand prize depends on the cost of airfare and hotel at the time the trip is booked by the winner. The Florida Lottery will pay applicable federal income tax withholding on the actual value of the prize. The reportable taxable value of the prize includes the actual value of the prize and the value of the federal income tax withholding paid by the Lottery.

The trip package does not include: travel expenses to Miami, Florida, insurance, gratuities, meals (other than those specified above), parking fees, baggage fees, alcoholic beverages (other than those served without charge at any reception and/or party), any items not expressly specified and personal expenses such as telephone calls, valet service, laundry, incidentals and the like, as well as revision or cancellation fees which may be charged by the airlines, hotel or other supplier. If a grand prize winner must reschedule a trip after it has been booked, the grand prize winner will be responsible for all costs associated with rebooking. Trip packages must be used within one year of the date of the drawing in which they are awarded as prizes. At the request of a grand prize winner and with the approval of the Lottery, the winner may transfer the trip package once prior to booking at no additional cost to the grand prize winner. If the trip package is transferred after airline or other reservations have been made and a charge is imposed for transferring the reservations, the winner will be responsible for paying the additional charge imposed. In the event of transfer, the original winner shall receive the $4,000 cash prize and the applicable tax liability on the entire prize shall be reported in the name of the original winner. In the event that a prizewinner does not use one or more portions of the grand prize, the unused portion or portions of the prize shall be forfeited with the exception of the $4,000 cash, and the entire value of the prize shall remain taxable income to the prizewinner. A cash option of $10,000 is available in lieu of the trip package prize. If a player chooses the cash option, federal income tax withholding will be deducted from the cash prize.

(b) Second Prize. Upon receipt of a second prize winner’s required documentation, the Florida Lottery will award a prize of $7,777, less applicable tax withholding.

(11) State-Owed Debt. All prizewinners, except third prize winners, will be analyzed for state-owed debt.  If the winner is identified as owing an outstanding debt to a state agency or child support collected through a court, the debt will be collected in accordance with section 24.115, Florida Statutes. If the debt of a grand prize winner who chooses to take the trip is an amount of less than the cash portion of the prize, the non-cash portion of the prize and the cash portion of the prize less the amount owed shall be awarded. If the debt is an amount greater than the cash portion of the prize, the grand prize winner’s entire cash portion of the prize will be applied toward the outstanding debt and the winner will receive the remaining non-cash portion of the prize, if any. If the debt of a grand prize winner who chooses the cash option is an amount less than $10,000, the winner shall receive the excess cash value after applicable federal withholding tax has been deducted and the debt has been satisfied. If the debt is an amount greater than $10,000, the entire cash value of the prize remaining after deduction of applicable federal withholding tax will be applied toward the outstanding debt as provided in Section 24.115, Florida Statutes.

(12) Taxes. Except as specifically mentioned herein, all federal, state and/or local taxes or other fees on Lucky Lotto Collect & Win prizes will be the responsibility of the winner.

(13) Other Restrictions and Provisions.

(a) The right to claim a prize cannot be assigned to another person or entity.

(b) All prizes are subject to the provisions of Chapter 24, Florida Statutes, and rules promulgated thereunder. Prizes will be paid in accordance with the rule of the Florida Lottery governing payment of prizes. Copies of the current prize payment rule can be obtained from the Florida Lottery, Office of the General Counsel, 250 Marriott Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-4011.

(c) Players must be at least 18 years of age. Persons prohibited by Section 24.116, Florida Statutes, from purchasing a Florida Lottery ticket are not eligible to play.

(d) A player entering a Lucky Lotto Collect & Win drawing is deemed to have granted permission for the Florida Lottery to photograph and/or videotape and record the prizewinner with or without prior notification and to use the name, photograph, videotape, and/or recording of the prizewinner for advertising or publicity purposes without additional compensation.

(e) Lucky Lotto Collect &Win drawings shall be public, held in Tallahassee, Florida, and witnessed by an accountant employed by an independent certified public accounting firm. The results of each drawing will be available after the drawing on the Florida Lottery’s website at flalottery.com.

Rulemaking Authority 24.105(9), 24.109(1) FS.  Law Implemented 24.105(9), 24.115(1) FS.  History–New- 3-13-14.

 

THIS RULE TAKES EFFECT UPON BEING FILED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE UNLESS A LATER TIME AND DATE IS SPECIFIED IN THE RULE.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 13, 2014