Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 23. PARKS, RECREATION, SPORTS, AND GAMBLING

CHAPTER 7. STATE LOTTERY

Part 3. Sales and Regulation

Sales Restrictions

23-7-302. Sales restrictions. (1) The price of each lottery game ticket, chance, wager, or bet must be clearly stated on the ticket, chance, wager, or bet. The price of a lottery game chance vended by a machine or electronic device must be clearly stated on the machine or device.

(2) Tickets, chances, wagers, or bets may not be sold to or purchased by persons under 18 years of age.

(3) Tickets, chances, wagers, or bets may not be purchased on credit. Tickets, chances, wagers, or bets may be purchased only with cash, check, or debit card and may not be purchased on credit. The use of a debit card is limited to the daily withdrawal amount of the issuing debit card lending institution.

(4) Tickets, chances, wagers, or bets may not be sold to or purchased by commissioners, the director, the director's staff, gaming suppliers doing business with the state lottery, suppliers' officers and employees, employees of any firm auditing or investigating the state lottery, governmental employees auditing or investigating the state lottery, or members of their households.

(5) The names of elected officials may not appear on any ticket, chance, wager, or bet.

History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 669, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 161, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 408, L. 1989; Sec. 23-5-1017, MCA 1989; redes. 23-7-302 by Sec. 57, Ch. 647, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 398, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 375, Ch. 56, L. 2009; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 284, L. 2019.