Section 7-169h-25c - Sealed ticket game products distributor(a) Each applicant for registration as a sealed ticket game product distributor shall apply to the commissioner on such forms as the commissioner prescribes. A sealed ticket game products distributor's application shall be accompanied by an annual fee of two thousand five hundred dollars, payable to the State Treasurer. Each applicant for an initial sealed ticket game products distributor registration shall submit to state and national criminal history records checks conducted in accordance with section 29-17a of the Connecticut General Statutes before such registration is issued.(b) A sealed ticket game products distributor shall have a physical office in this state and such office shall be subject to inspection by the commissioner or the commissioner's duly designated agent during normal business hours. No permittee or person affiliated with a permittee shall be permitted to be a sealed ticket game products distributor.(c) All sealed tickets purchased by a sealed ticket game products distributor for sale or use in this state shall be stored or warehoused in this state prior to their sale or distribution to any permittee during normal business hours, and such warehouse or storage facility shall be subject to inspection by the commissioner or the commissioner's duly designated agent during normal business hours.(d) A sealed ticket game products distributor shall not purchase sealed tickets for sale or use in this state from any person except a sealed ticket game products manufacturer registered with the department.(e) All sealed tickets sold in this state shall be approved by the commissioner.(f) A sealed ticket game products distributor shall develop procedures to track each packet of sealed tickets to sealed ticket permittees and account for all sealed ticket packets purchased, sold and in inventory. A distributor shall explain any discrepancy of packets not accounted for.(g) Sealed ticket game products sales shall not be conducted under conditions other than as stated in the original application for a sealed ticket game products distributor registration unless an application to amend, prescribed by the commissioner, is filed with the commissioner and if the subject matter of the proposed amendment could lawfully and properly have been included in the original application and registration. After an investigation of the facts, the department may approve or disapprove the application to amend based upon the information provided in the application to amend.(h) No sealed ticket game products distributor shall sell sealed tickets after any substantial change has come about in its status which is at variance with the facts contained in the original application for a sealed ticket games products distributor registration until an application to amend is filed with the commissioner. After an investigation, the department may, if the facts so warrant, revoke such distributor's registration in accordance with the provisions of Section 7-169h-26 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.(i) A sealed ticket game products distributor shall file a report with the commissioner on a quarterly basis, during the months of January, April, July and October, on a form prescribed by him, and pay to the State Treasurer a fee of thirty percent of the gross revenues derived from the sale of sealed tickets. Such report shall include (1) the date of sale, (2) the name of the game sold, (3) the serial numbers of all tickets sold, (4) the form numbers for all games sold, (5) the ticket count per packet for each game sold, (6) the name, address and permit number of each permittee to whom sealed tickets were sold, (7) the name and registration number of the sealed ticket game products manufacturer, and (8) any other information the commissioner may require.(j) The commissioner or his authorized representatives shall at all times have access to all books and records of any sealed ticket game products distributor.(k) The department may investigate any matter arising from the sale, purchase or game play of sealed tickets to ensure the integrity of the activity.Conn. Agencies Regs. § 7-169h-25c
Effective November 2, 2012