DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE Mega Millions® Terminal-Based Lottery Game [40 Pa.B. 5263]
[Saturday, September 11, 2010]Under the State Lottery Law (72 P. S. §§ 3761-101—3761-314) and 61 Pa. Code § 875.4 (relating to notice of terminal-based lottery game rules), the Secretary of Revenue hereby provides public notice of changes to the Mega Millions® terminal-based lottery game rules that were published at 40 Pa.B. 676 (January 30, 2010).
The following changes to the Mega Millions® terminal-based lottery game will be effective beginning with the September 14, 2010 drawing.
This amendment provides that the Mega Millions® cash and annuity jackpot category prize amounts will be determined by the MUSL Mega Millions® Product Group.
This amendment also enhances the Megaplier® promotion by fixing the second prize category Megaplier® number at a minimum of 4.
The correct version of this document is as follows, with ellipses referring to the existing text as it appeared at 40 Pa.B. 676 and 677:
* * * * * 7. Prizes available to be won and determination of prize winners:
* * * * * (b) Determinations of the Mega Millions® prize winners for tickets correctly matching, in the same play, the winning numbers selected by the Mega Millions® drawing officials are:
(1) Holders of tickets upon which the player's five numbers selected from the field of numbers 1 through 56 and the player's one number selected from the field of numbers 1 through 46 matches the Mega Millions® winning numbers, in a single play, for the drawing in which the ticket is entered, shall be the winner of the jackpot category prize. Prize money allocated to the jackpot category prize will be divided into as many shares as there are winning jackpot category prize plays as provided in this section.
(i) The MUSL Mega Millions® Product Group shall determine the annuity jackpot category prize amount and the corresponding cash jackpot prize amount as those amounts are defined in the Product Group's rules.
(ii) The minimum Mega Millions® annuity jackpot category prize shall not be less than $12 million divided by the number of plays entitled to a jackpot category prize.
(iii) If, in a Mega Millions® drawing, there are no winning Mega Millions® jackpot category prize plays, prize money allocated to that prize category will be carried forward and added to the amount allocated for the jackpot category prize in the next consecutive Mega Millions® drawing.
(iv) If the annuity jackpot category prize divided by the number of Mega Millions® plays matching all the Mega Millions® winning numbers, is equal to or greater than $1,000,000, the jackpot category prize will be paid as an annuity as described in section 7(b)(1)(v) unless the winner elects to receive the jackpot category prize in a single cash payment provided the election is made by the player within 60 days of the date the Lottery determines that a player is entitled to the jackpot category prize.
(v) Annuity jackpot category prizes shall be paid in 26 consecutive annual installments. The initial payment shall be paid upon completion of internal validation procedures. The subsequent 25 payments shall be paid annually.
(vi) The amount of the jackpot category prize, if paid as a lump-sum cash payment, may be either the cash jackpot category prize amount as determined by the MUSL Mega Millions® Product Group, divided by the number of jackpot category prize winners, or the proceeds of the sale of bonds purchased to fund a particular winner's share of the annuity jackpot category prize amount. A winner has 60 days from the date the Lottery determines that a player is entitled to a jackpot category prize to elect in writing to irrevocably receive payment as a lump-sum cash payment.
(vii) In the event multiple Mega Millions® plays match all the Mega Millions® winning numbers in the same drawing, and the annuity Mega Millions® jackpot category prize divided by the number of winning jackpot category prize game plays is less than $1,000,000, each Mega Millions® jackpot category prize winner shall be paid a lump-sum cash payment in an amount equal to the cash jackpot prize amount as determined by the MUSL Mega Millions® Product Group, divided equally by the number of jackpot category prize winners.
(viii) If individual shares of the cash held to fund an annuity are less than $250,000, the MUSL Mega Millions® Product Group, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay the winners their share of the cash allocated for the payment of the jackpot category prize. Prize payments may be rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars.
(ix) In the event of the death of a lottery winner during the annuity payment period, the MUSL Finance & Audit Committee, in its sole discretion excepting a discretionary review by the MUSL Mega Millions® Product Group, may accelerate the payment of all of the remaining lottery proceeds to the estate of the lottery winner. The estate of the lottery winner shall petition the lottery of the jurisdiction in which the deceased lottery winner purchased the winning ticket to request acceleration. If such a determination is made, then securities and/or cash held to fund the deceased lottery winner's annuity prize may be distributed to their estate. The identification of the securities to fund the annuity prize shall be at the sole discretion of the MUSL Finance and Audit Committee or the MUSL Mega Millions® Product Group.
* * * * * 10. Megaplier® promotion.
* * * * * (d) Mega Millions® tickets that contain the Megaplier® promotion and one or more plays eligible for Mega Millions® set prizes, but not the jackpot category prize, identified in section 7 (relating to prizes available to be won and determination of prize winners), shall be entitled to a total set prize calculated by multiplying each Mega Millions® set prize by the Megaplier® number selected for the drawing in which the ticket was entered. The second prize category Megaplier® number will be fixed at a minimum of 4.
* * * * * 12. Claims arising from Mega Millions® sales occurring in the Commonwealth shall be resolved exclusively with the Pennsylvania Lottery according to the laws of Pennsylvania. Conflicts between the MUSL Mega Millions® Product Group rules and the Mega Millions® game rules as published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin shall be resolved in favor of the MUSL Mega Millions® Product Group rules.
* * * * * C. DANIEL HASSELL,
Secretary[Pa.B. Doc. No. 10-1700. Filed for public inspection September 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.]
