§ 27-115-71. Criminal background investigation of potential vendors; criminal background and credit investigations of potential employees
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety shall perform full criminal background investigations on all potential vendors, including potential lottery retailers, and potential employees of the corporation at the level of division head and above, and at any level within a division handling security, and, as determined by the board, on any other employee of the […]
§ 27-115-41. Publication of quarterly and annual financial statements
The corporation shall publish quarterly and annual financial statements, which shall be made available to the public within thirty (30) days following the close of each quarter. The quarterly and annual financial statements shall include disposition of all funds expended by the corporation for any purpose, including disclosure of any major procurements.
§ 27-115-73. Sale of lottery tickets to or purchase by persons under the age of twenty-one prohibited; responsibility of lottery retailers to verify age of purchaser; penalties
No lottery retailer and no agent, associate, employee, representative or servant of any such person shall allow any illegal lottery device to be on its premises, nor shall any lottery retailer, agent, associate, employee, representative or servant sell a lottery ticket to any person unless the person submits any one (1) of the following forms […]
§ 27-115-43. Proceeds of certain lottery prizes subject to state and federal income tax withholding laws; withholding of attachments, garnishments or executions; verification of validity of winning tickets; payment of prizes; unclaimed prize money; persons prohibited from purchasing tickets or claiming prizes
Proceeds of any lottery prize of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) or more shall be subject to state and federal income tax withholding laws, as applicable. Any attachments, garnishments or executions authorized and issued pursuant to law shall also be withheld if timely served upon the process agent of the corporation. The board shall adopt administrative […]
§ 27-115-75. Prohibited acts; penalties
Any person, with intent to defraud, who falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes or counterfeits a state lottery ticket shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one (1) year and not more than twenty (20) years, by a fine of not more than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), or by both such fine and […]
§ 27-115-45. Coordination with Department of Human Services to withhold lottery prizes of persons who have outstanding child support arrearages; coordination with state agencies to withhold lottery prizes of persons who have outstanding debts owed state
The board shall coordinate with the Department of Human Services to promulgate rules and regulations providing for the withholding of lottery prizes of persons who have outstanding child support arrearages as reported to the corporation, beginning at prize levels to be determined by the board. The corporation may require any agency reporting current child support […]
§ 27-115-77. Employment of former board members or corporation officers by vendors of the corporation within one year after termination of service with corporation prohibited; exceptions; administration of provisions of section by State Ethics Commission
No former board member or officer of the corporation, or a corporation or other entity owned, in whole or in part, by a former board member or officer of the corporation, shall solicit or accept employment or enter into a contract for compensation of any kind with a vendor of the corporation within one (1) […]
§ 27-115-47. Prize awarded in deferred annuity payments may be voluntarily assigned to a person other than the winner under certain circumstances and with judicial approval
Under an appropriate judicial order, any prize, or any portion of a prize, or any right of any person to a prize awarded, payable by the corporation in deferred annuity payments, may be paid to any person other than the winner. The right of a person to a prize payable by the corporation in deferred […]
§ 27-115-49. Contracts for major procurements
The corporation shall enter into its contracts for major procurements after bidding. The corporation may adopt administrative rules and regulations pursuant to the provisions of this chapter providing for special procedures whereby the Mississippi Lottery Corporation may make any class of procurement. In its bidding processes, the corporation may do its own bidding and procurement […]
§ 27-115-51. Deposit of monies received from sale of lottery tickets into corporate operating account; investment of monies in corporate operating account; Lottery Proceeds Fund established; transfer of net proceeds from corporate operating account to Lottery Proceeds Fund
All monies received by the corporation from the sale of lottery tickets and all other sources shall be deposited into a corporate operating account. Such account shall be established in a custodian financial institution domiciled in the State of Mississippi and insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and collateralized as prescribed by Section 27-105-5. […]