2021 Delaware Code
Title 29 - State Government
Chapter 48. Lotteries
Subchapter II. Tri-State Lotto Compact
§ 4854. Penalties.

Universal Citation: 29 DE Code § 4854. (2021)
§ 4854. Penalties.

(a) No person shall sell a ticket or share in a ticket at a price greater than that fixed by the Commission. No person other than a lottery agent can sell lottery tickets. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any individual purchaser from giving lottery tickets or shares to another as a gift. Any person convicted of violating this subchapter may be punished by imprisonment for 6 months and a fine of $1,000.

(b) Any person who falsely or fraudulently makes, forges, alters or counterfeits, or causes or procures to be made, forged, altered or counterfeited, any Commission ticket or any part thereof, or any person who knowingly and wilfully utters, publishes, passes or tenders as true, any forged, altered or counterfeited Commission lottery tickets may be punished by imprisonment for 6 months and a fine of $5,000.

(c) Any subsequent offense may be punished by imprisonment for 2 years and $20,000 fine for each offense.

66 Del. Laws, c. 183, § 1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 446, § 17;  77 Del. Laws, c. 219, § 21; 
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