Iowa Code 99G.24 – Retailer compensation — licensing
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1. The general assembly recognizes that to conduct a successful lottery, the department must develop and maintain a statewide network of lottery retailers that will serve the public convenience and promote the sale of tickets or shares and the playing of lottery games while ensuring the integrity of the lottery operations, games, and activities.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 99G.24
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Board: means the board of directors of the Iowa lottery created in section 99G. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the department of revenue. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- Director: means the director of the department of revenue or the director's designee. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- Division: means the Iowa lottery division of the department of revenue. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- lottery products: means any game of chance approved and operated pursuant to this chapter and games using mechanical or electronic devices, provided that the division shall not authorize a monitor vending machine or a player-activated gaming machine that utilizes an internal randomizer to determine winning and nonwinning plays and that upon random internal selection of a winning play dispenses coins, currency, or a ticket, credit, or token to the player that is redeemable for cash or a prize, and excluding gambling or gaming conducted pursuant to chapter 99B, 99D, or 99F. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Retailer: means a person who sells lottery tickets or shares on behalf of the division pursuant to a license issued by the department. See Iowa Code 99G.3
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Vendor: means a person who provides or proposes to provide goods or services to the department pursuant to a major procurement contract, but does not include an employee of the department under this chapter, a retailer, or a state agency or instrumentality thereof. See Iowa Code 99G.3
2. The board shall determine the compensation to be paid to licensed retailers. Compensation may include provision for variable payments based on sales volume or incentive considerations.
3. The department shall issue a license certificate to each person with whom it contracts as a retailer for purposes of display as provided in this section. Every lottery retailer shall post its license certificate, or a facsimile thereof, and keep it conspicuously displayed in a location on the premises accessible to the public. No license shall be assignable or transferable. Once issued, a license shall remain in effect until canceled, suspended, or terminated by the department.
4. A licensee under this section shall cooperate with the department by using point-of-purchase materials, posters, and other marketing material when requested to do so by the department. Lack of cooperation is sufficient cause for revocation of a retailer’s license.
5. The board shall develop a list of objective criteria upon which the qualification of lottery retailers shall be based. Separate criteria shall be developed to govern the selection of retailers of instant tickets and on-line retailers. In developing these criteria, the board shall consider such factors as the applicant’s financial responsibility, security of the applicant’s place of business or activity, accessibility to the public, integrity, and reputation. The criteria shall include but not be limited to the volume of expected sales and the sufficiency of existing licensees to serve the public convenience.
6. The applicant shall be current in filing all applicable tax returns to the state of Iowa and in payment of all taxes, interest, and penalties owed to the state of Iowa, excluding items under formal appeal pursuant to applicable statutes. The department is authorized and directed to provide this information to those employees of the division designated to receive this information.
7. A person, partnership, unincorporated association, authority, or other business entity shall not be selected as a lottery retailer if the person or entity meets any of the following conditions:
a. Has been convicted of a criminal offense related to the security or integrity of the lottery in this or any other jurisdiction.
b. Has been convicted of any illegal gambling activity, false statements, perjury, fraud, or a felony in this or any other jurisdiction.
c. Has been found to have violated the provisions of this chapter or any regulation, policy, or procedure of the division unless either ten years have passed since the violation or the board finds the violation both minor and unintentional in nature.
d. Is a vendor or any employee or agent of any vendor doing business with the department under this chapter or the division.
e. Resides in the same household as an officer of the division.
f. Is less than eighteen years of age.
g. Does not demonstrate financial responsibility sufficient to adequately meet the requirements of the proposed enterprise.
h. Has not demonstrated that the applicant is the true owner of the business proposed to be licensed and that all persons holding at least a ten percent ownership interest in the applicant’s business have been disclosed.
i. Has knowingly made a false statement of material fact to the department.
8. Persons applying to become lottery retailers may be charged a uniform application fee for each lottery outlet.
9. Any lottery retailer contract executed pursuant to this section may, for good cause, be suspended, revoked, or terminated by the director or the director’s designee if the retailer is found to have violated any provision of this chapter or objective criteria established by the board. Cause for suspension, revocation, or termination may include, but is not limited to, sale of tickets or shares to a person under the age of twenty-one and failure to pay for lottery products in a timely manner.