Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 48 - Lotteries

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• agency: means any department, agency or instrumentality of the State or of a political subdivision of the State, any department, agency or instrumentality of 2 or more states, or 2 or more political subdivisions of the State, or states, and any person who has the authority to acquire property by eminent domain under state law. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 9301
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authorized player: means an individual, who is not prohibited by this subchapter, that participates in an interactive fantasy sports contest offered by a registrant. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• business: means any lawful activity, except a farm operation, conducted primarily:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 9301

• Charitable gaming organization: shall mean an organization, in existence as of January 1, 2013, that is a fraternal or veterans organization with national affiliation or an organization, in existence as of January 1, 2013, whose membership consists primarily of veterans honorably discharged or active duty service members. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Charitable video lottery machine: shall mean a video lottery machine that is under the control of the State Lottery Office and that has been authorized by the Director to be placed at a location operated by a charitable gaming organization. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• comparable replacement dwelling: means any dwelling that is:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 9301

• contest: means an online simulated game of skill wherein 1 or more contestants compete against each other by using their knowledge and understanding of athletic events and athletes to select and manage rosters of players whose performance directly corresponds with the actual performance of competitors on sports teams and in sports contests. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Credit slip: shall mean the receipt generated by a video lottery terminal when a player is playing that particular video lottery terminal, or the ticket resulting from a sports lottery game. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Criteria established by the agency: as used in this chapter , shall mean those criteria established and approved pursuant to the relevant provisions of 49 C. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 9301
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7972
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: as used in this subchapter , shall mean the Director of the State Lottery Office. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Director: means the Director of the Delaware Division of Gaming Enforcement. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• displaced person: means : any person who moves from real property, or moves personal property from real property:

  1. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 9301

• Division: means the Delaware Division of Gaming Enforcement. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Employee organization: shall mean any organization that admits or seeks to admit to membership employees of a Delaware video lottery agent and that has as a purpose the representation of such employees in collective bargaining, grievance representation, labor disputes, salaries, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Entry fee: means cash or cash equivalent that is paid by an authorized player or an authorized Delaware player to a registrant to participate in an interactive fantasy sports contest offered by such registrant. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• farm operation: means any activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of 1 or more agricultural products or commodities, including timber, for sale or home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 9301
• Fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach, or default. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Gaming area: shall mean a location in a video lottery facility where gaming activity is conducted at video lottery machines or table games. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Gaming employee: shall mean a person employed in the operation of a video lottery facility and determined by the Director to have employment duties and responsibilities involving the security, maintenance, servicing, repair, or operation of video lottery machines and table game equipment, or is employed in a position that allows direct access to the internal workings of video lottery machines or table game equipment. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Gaming excursion: shall mean an arrangement the purpose of which is to induce any person, selected or approved for participation therein on the basis of said person's ability to satisfy a financial qualification obligation related to said person's ability or willingness to gamble or on any other basis related to said person's propensity to gamble, to come to a video lottery facility for the purpose of gaming and pursuant to which, and as consideration for which, any or all of the cost of transportation, food, lodging, and entertainment for said person is directly or indirectly paid by a video lottery agent or employee thereof. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (Section 2A-309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Gross table game revenue: shall mean the total of all table game win or loss and poker revenue, including checks received whether collected or not, received by a video lottery agent from table game operations; provided that if the value of gross table game revenue at any video lottery facility in a given fiscal year is less than zero, any liabilities to winners in such year shall be the responsibility of the video lottery agent. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• High school sport or athletic event: means a sport or athletic event offered or sponsored by or played in connection with a public or private institution that offers education services at the secondary level. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Highly experienced player: means an authorized player who has done 1 of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862

• Horse racing event: means any sport or athletic event conducted in Delaware that is subject to the provisions of Chapters 100 and 101 of Title 3, or any sport or athletic event conducted outside of Delaware, which if conducted in Delaware would be subject to the provisions of Chapters 100 and 101 of Title 3. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Internet lottery: shall mean all lottery games in which the player's interaction with the game operated by the Office occurs over the Internet (which, for purposes of this chapter, shall include any public or private computer or terminal network, whether linked electronically, wirelessly, through optical networking technology or other means), including Internet ticket games, the Internet video lottery and Internet table games. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Internet table games: shall mean a lottery game in which the player's interaction with the game operated by the Office occurs over the Internet through a website or network of a video lottery agent, rather than at a table game in a video lottery facility, and in which the game is an Internet variation or compilation of a table game or table games, provided that the game is expressly authorized by rule of the Director. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Internet ticket games: shall mean a lottery game in which the player's interaction with the game operated by the Office occurs over the Internet through a website or network of the Office, and in which the winner is decided by chance through mechanical or electronic means, and which shall include keno but which shall not include the video lottery, table games, and other forms of the Internet lottery. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Internet video lottery: shall mean a lottery game in which the player's interaction with the game operated by the Office occurs over the Internet through a website or network of a video lottery agent, rather than at a video lottery machine in a video lottery facility, and in which the game is an Internet variation of a video lottery game, and which shall not include keno, table games, and other forms of the Internet lottery. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Key employee: shall mean a person employed in the operation of a video lottery facility and determined by the Director to be acting in a supervisory capacity or empowered to make discretionary decisions with respect to video lottery machine or table game operations, including, without limitation, the chief executive, financial and operation managers, video lottery department managers, cashier and cage supervisors, credit executives, pit bosses or managers, gaming employee shift managers or any other employee so designated by the Director for reasons consistent with the public policies of this subchapter, and shall include any officer or any employee of an employee organization who has direct involvement with or who exercises authority, discretion or influence in the representation of employees of a Delaware video lottery agent in collective bargaining, grievance representation, labor disputes, salaries, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment or conditions of work. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this Article and any other applicable rules of law. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• lottery ticket sales agent: means a person whom the Director has licensed to sell lottery tickets. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Minor: means any person under the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Net moneys: shall mean all moneys received from the sale of lottery tickets after first deducting sales agent commissions and payment of prizes under $600. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Office: shall mean the State Lottery Office established by this subchapter. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• operator: means any person or entity that offers any interactive fantasy sports contest to any player through any interactive fantasy sports platform. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• person: means any individual, family, partnership, corporation or association. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 9301
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• platform: means any online method by which access to an interactive fantasy sports contest is provided. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Poker revenue: shall mean the total value of rake charged to players at all poker tables. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Prohibited sports event: means any collegiate sporting event that involves a Delaware college or university, or any high school sport or athletic event, or any horse racing event. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Qualified child support obligation: shall mean any child support lien in excess of $150 as provided by § 2215 of Title 13. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Qualified video lottery prize: shall mean any video lottery or charitable gaming organization prize paid by cash or check for which a W-2G is issued equal to or in excess of $1,200 (but less any amounts withheld for income taxes). See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• registrant: means an operator that is registered by the Director. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Restricted gaming area: shall mean the cashier's cage, the count room, the cage booths and runway areas, the interior of table game pits, the surveillance room and catwalk areas, the video lottery machine repair room and any other area designated by the Director as a restricted gaming area. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Sports event: shall mean any amateur or professional sport or athletic event, except a prohibited sports event. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4862
• Sports lottery: shall mean a lottery in which the winners are determined based on the outcome of any professional or collegiate sporting event, including racing, held within or without the State, but excluding collegiate sporting events that involve a Delaware college or university and amateur or professional sporting events that involve a Delaware team. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Sports lottery agent: means a person whom the Director has licensed to conduct sports lottery games. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Sports lottery machine: shall mean any machine in which bills, coins or tokens are deposited in order to play a sports lottery game. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Sports lottery operations employee: shall mean an individual employee, person or agent of an applicant or licensee who is responsible for the security of sports lottery operations or proceeds. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• State Lottery Fund: shall mean those moneys derived from the sale of state lottery tickets and deposited in the state account of that name and those funds appropriated for the start-up costs of the system. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• system: shall mean the public gaming systems or games established and operated pursuant to this subchapter and including all types of lotteries. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Table game: shall mean any game played in a video lottery facility with cards, dice or any mechanical, electromechanical or electronic device or machine (excluding keno, video lottery machines, and the Internet lottery) for money, credit or any representative of value, including, but not limited to, baccarat, blackjack, twenty-one, poker, craps, roulette, bingo, wheel of fortune or any variation of these games, whether or not similar in design or operation, provided that the game is expressly authorized by rule of the Director. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Table game equipment: shall mean gaming tables, cards, dice, chips, tiles, shufflers, drop boxes or any other mechanical, electronic or other device, mechanism or equipment or related supplies used or consumed in the operation of any table games. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Table game win or loss: shall mean the value of gaming chips and cash won from patrons at gaming tables less the value of gaming chips and cash won by patrons at gaming tables other than poker tables. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Video lottery: shall mean any lottery conducted in a video lottery facility with a video lottery machine or a network of linked video lottery machines with an aggregate progression prize or prizes (excluding keno, table games, and the Internet lottery). See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Video lottery agent: means a person whom the Director has licensed to conduct table games, video lottery games, sports lottery games, and Internet lottery games and who possesses either a horse racing meet license pursuant to Title 3 or Title 28 of the Delaware Code, a harness racing meet license pursuant to Title 3 of the Delaware Code, or both. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Video lottery facility: shall mean a building containing a gaming area. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
• Video lottery machine: shall mean any machine in which bills, coins or tokens are deposited in order to play in a game of chance in which the results, including options available to the player, are randomly determined by the machine. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803