61 Pa. Code § 815.49 - Procedure for claiming and payment of prizes
(a) A prize shall be claimed only through an
on-line numbers sales retailer.
(b)
An on-line numbers sales retailer is authorized and required to make immediate
payment of a prize of $2,500 or less, if the ticket is presented within a
designated time period as announced by the Director, on an individual winning
ticket, if the sales retailer has sufficient funds available for
payment.
(c) Winning ticket holders
of an individual ticket representing a prize of $2,500 or less shall be paid by
participating sales retailers as provided in subsection (b), if the ticket
validation requirements in §
815.48 (relating to ticket
validation requirements) have been met; a proper validation pay ticket has been
issued by the sales retailer's computer terminal and other procedures have been
complied with as outlined in the Agent Operating Procedure for Pennsylvania
Lottery Numbers Games and addendums thereof.
(d) Winning ticket holders of an individual
ticket representing a prize of over $2,500 shall first validate their winning
ticket at a participating on-line numbers sales retailer in order to receive a
validation ticket and then shall present the winning ticket and the validation
ticket to an authorized claim center-on-line numbers sales retailer-under
Chapter 811 (relating to prizes).
(e) The holder of a winning ticket may only
claim and cash a winning ticket after the play dates identified on the winning
ticket have expired-drawing held-on future bet tickets.
(f) The payment of a prize to a person under
18 years of age and to a person who dies before receiving any or all of a
particular prize shall be paid under §§
811.16 and
811.27 (relating to prizes payable
after death of prize winner; and payment of prizes to persons under 18 years of
age).
(g) The Commonwealth will be
discharged of liability after the payment of prizes as provided in §
811.26 (relating to discharge of
State liability upon payment).
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