N.Y. Tax Law § 1610 : Tax — New York State Lottery For Education — Sales to certain persons prohibited

25 Jul 2016

Current through 2016 New York Laws, Chapters 1 to 237

a. No ticket shall be sold to any person under the age of eighteen years, but this shall not be deemed to prohibit the purchase of a ticket for the purpose of making a gift by a person eighteen years of age or older to a person less than that age. Any licensee or the employee or agent of any licensee who sells or offers to sell a lottery ticket to any person under the age of eighteen shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
b. No ticket shall be sold to and no prize shall be paid to any of the following persons:
(i) any member, officer or employee of the division; or
(ii) any member, officer or employee of the department of taxation and finance whose duties directly relate to the operation of the state lottery; or
(iii) any spouse, child, brother, sister or parent residing as a member of the same household in the principal place of abode of any of the foregoing persons.
N.Y. Tax Law § 1610