POWERBALL® New Year’s Eve Promotion Amendment

Notice of Emergency Rule

 

DEPARTMENT OF THE LOTTERY

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

53ER19-55POWERBALL® New Year’s Eve Promotion Amendment

SUMMARY: This emergency rule amends Rule 53ER19-47, F. A.C., POWERBALL® New Year’s Eve Promotion to clarify that a prizewinner may only win one VIP Experience prize in the drawing.

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:

53ER19-55 POWERBALL® New Year’s Eve Promotion Amendment

(1) Subsection (5) of Emergency Rule 53ER19-47, F.A.C., POWERBALL® New Year’s Eve Promotion is replaced in its entirety as follows:

Drawing and Number of Prizes. The Florida Lottery will conduct one drawing in the Promotion. Prizewinners for the drawing will be randomly selected from entries submitted and received before midnight ET on August 31, 2019. Prizewinners will be randomly selected using a certified random number generation process. The drawing shall be public, held in Tallahassee, Florida, and witnessed by an accountant employed by an independent certified public accounting firm. A prizewinner may only win one VIP Experience prize in the drawing. The drawing date and entry period is as follows:

Drawing	Drawing Date	Entry Period
1	September 4, 2019	August 1, 2019 – August 31, 2019

In the drawing, the Florida Lottery will select a total of one hundred entries. The first fifty valid entries drawn will win a VIP Experience prize. The remaining valid entries drawn will be alternates and used in the order in which they were drawn and in the order of need to select an alternate prizewinner in the event of any of the following occurrences: a prizewinner is selected more than once in the drawing; a prizewinner cannot be notified as set forth in subsection (6) below; or a prizewinner fails to timely provide required claim documentation as set forth in subsection (7) below.  A total of fifty VIP Experience prizes will be available.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (1) above, all other provisions set forth in Rule 53ER19-47 F.A.C., shall remain in effect.

Rulemaking Authority 24.105(9), 24.109(1), FS.  Law Implemented 24.105(9), 24.115(1) FS.  History – New 8-23-19. 

 

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: August 23, 2019.