2016 New York Laws
GOB - General Obligations
Article 5 - CREATION, DEFINITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
Title 4 - (5-401 - 5-423) CONTRACTS RELATING TO WAGERING; FORFEITURE AND RECOVERY OF CERTAIN PROPERTY
5-423 - Money paid for lottery tickets may be recovered by action.

 5-423. Money  paid  for  lottery tickets may be recovered by action.
  Any person who shall purchase any share, interest,  ticket,  certificate
  of  any  share  or  interest,  or  part  of  a  ticket,  or any paper or
  instrument purporting to be a ticket or share or interest in any ticket,
  or purporting to be a certificate  of  any  share  or  interest  in  any
  ticket, or in any portion of any lottery, may sue for and recover double
  the  sum  of  money,  and double the value of goods or things in action,
  which he may have paid or delivered in consideration of  such  purchase,
  with double costs of suit.
Any  person  who  shall  have paid any money, or valuable thing, for a
  chance or interest in any lottery or  distribution,  prohibited  by  the
  penal  law,  may sue for and recover the same of the person to whom such
  payment or delivery was made.