2006 Kansas Code - 74-8702

      74-8702.   Definitions. As used in the Kansas lottery act, unless the context otherwise requires:

      (a)   "Commission" means the Kansas lottery commission.

      (b)   "Executive director" means the executive director of the Kansas lottery.

      (c)   "Gaming equipment" means any electric, electronic or mechanical device or other equipment unique to the Kansas lottery used directly in the operation of any lottery and in the determination of winners pursuant to this act.

      (d)   "Kansas lottery" means the state agency created by this act to operate a lottery or lotteries pursuant to this act.

      (e)   "Lottery retailer" means any person with whom the Kansas lottery has contracted to sell lottery tickets or shares, or both, to the public.

      (f)   "Lottery" or "state lottery" means the lottery or lotteries operated pursuant to this act.

      (g)   "Major procurement" means any gaming product or service, including but not limited to facilities, advertising and promotional services, annuity contracts, prize payment agreements, consulting services, equipment, tickets and other products and services unique to the Kansas lottery, but not including materials, supplies, equipment and services common to the ordinary operations of state agencies.

      (h)   "Person" means any natural person, association, corporation or partnership.

      (i)   "Prize" means any prize paid directly by the Kansas lottery pursuant to its rules and regulations.

      (j)   "Share" means any intangible manifestation authorized by the Kansas lottery to prove participation in a lottery game.

      (k)   "Ticket" means any tangible evidence issued by the Kansas lottery to prove participation in a lottery game.

      (l)   "Vendor" means any person who has entered into a major procurement contract with the Kansas lottery.

      (m)   "Returned ticket" means any ticket which was transferred to a lottery retailer, which was not sold by the lottery retailer and which was returned to the Kansas lottery for refund by issuance of a credit or otherwise.

      (n)   "Video lottery machine" means any electronic video game machine that, upon insertion of cash, is available to play or simulate the play of a video game authorized by the commission, including but not limited to bingo, poker, black jack and keno, and which uses a video display and microprocessors and in which, by chance, the player may receive free games or credits that can be redeemed for cash.

      (o) (1)   "Lottery machine" means any machine or device that allows a player to insert cash or other form of consideration and may deliver as the result of an element of chance, regardless of the skill required by the player, a prize or evidence of a prize, including, but not limited to:

      (A)   Any machine or device in which the prize or evidence of a prize is determined by both chance and the player's or players' skill, including, but not limited to, any machine or device on which a lottery game or lottery games, such as poker or blackjack, are played;

      (B)   any machine or device in which the prize or evidence of a prize is determined only by chance, including, but not limited to, any slot machine or bingo machine; or

      (C)   any lottery ticket vending machine, such as a keno ticket vending machine, pull-tab vending machine or an instant-bingo vending machine.

      (2)   "Lottery machine" shall not mean:

      (A)   Any food vending machine defined by K.S.A. 36-501, and amendments thereto;

      (B)   any nonprescription drug machine authorized under K.S.A. 65-650, and amendments thereto;

      (C)   any machine which dispenses only bottled or canned soft drinks, chewing gum, nuts or candies; or

      (D)   any machine excluded from the definition of gambling devices under subsection (d) of K.S.A. 21-4302, and amendments thereto.

      History:   L. 1987, ch. 292, § 2; L. 1988, ch. 314, § 1; L. 1989, ch. 244, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 299, § 2; L. 2001, ch. 24, § 5; July 1.