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

(a) "Ancillary lottery gaming facility operations" means additional non-lottery facility game products and services not owned and operated by the state which may be included in the overall development associated with the lottery gaming facility. Such operations may include, but are not limited to, restaurants, hotels, motels, museums or entertainment facilities.

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

(c) "Electronic gaming machine" means any electronic, electromechanical, video or computerized device, contrivance or machine authorized by the Kansas lottery which, upon insertion of cash, tokens, electronic cards or any consideration, is available to play, operate or simulate the play of a game authorized by the Kansas lottery pursuant to the Kansas expanded lottery act, including, but not limited to, bingo, poker, blackjack, keno and slot machines, and which may deliver or entitle the player operating the machine to receive cash, tokens, merchandise or credits that may be redeemed for cash. Electronic gaming machines may use bill validators and may be single-position reel-type, single or multi-game video and single-position multi-game video electronic game, including, but not limited to, poker, blackjack and slot machines. Electronic gaming machines shall be directly linked to a central computer at a location determined by the executive director for purposes of security, monitoring and auditing.

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

(e) "Gaming equipment" means any electric, electronic, computerized or electromechanical machine, mechanism, supply or device or any other equipment, which is: (1) Unique to the Kansas lottery and used pursuant to the Kansas lottery act; and (2) integral to the operation of an electronic gaming machine or lottery facility game; and (3) affects the results of an electronic gaming machine or lottery facility game by determining win or loss.

(f) "Gaming zone" means: (1) The northeast Kansas gaming zone, which consists of Wyandotte county; (2) the southeast Kansas gaming zone, which consists of Crawford and Cherokee counties; (3) the south central Kansas gaming zone, which consists of Sedgwick and Sumner counties; and (4) the southwest Kansas gaming zone, which consists of Ford county.

(g) "Gray machine" means any mechanical, electro-mechanical or electronic device, capable of being used for gambling, that is: (1) Not authorized by the Kansas lottery, (2) not linked to a lottery central computer system, (3) available to the public for play or (4) capable of simulating a game played on an electronic gaming machine or any similar gambling game authorized pursuant to the Kansas expanded lottery act.

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

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

(j) "Lottery facility games" means any electronic gaming machines and any other games which, as of January 1, 2007, are authorized to be conducted or operated at a tribal gaming facility, as defined in K.S.A. 74-9802, and amendments thereto, located within the boundaries of this state.

(k) "Lottery gaming enterprise" means an entertainment enterprise which includes a lottery gaming facility authorized pursuant to the Kansas expanded lottery act and ancillary lottery gaming facility operations that have a coordinated business or marketing strategy. A lottery gaming enterprise shall be designed to attract to its lottery gaming facility consumers who reside outside the immediate area of such enterprise.

(l) "Lottery gaming facility" means that portion of a building used for the purposes of operating, managing and maintaining lottery facility games.

(m) "Lottery gaming facility expenses" means normal business expenses, as defined in the lottery gaming facility management contract, associated with the ownership and operation of a lottery gaming facility.

(n) "Lottery gaming facility management contract" means a contract, subcontract or collateral agreement between the state and a lottery gaming facility manager for the management of a lottery gaming facility, the business of which is owned and operated by the Kansas lottery, negotiated and signed by the executive director on behalf of the state.

(o) "Lottery gaming facility manager" means a corporation, limited liability company, resident Kansas American Indian tribe or other business entity authorized to construct and manage, or manage alone, pursuant to a lottery gaming facility management contract with the Kansas lottery, and on behalf of the state, a lottery gaming enterprise and lottery gaming facility.

(p) "Lottery gaming facility revenues" means the total revenues from lottery facility games at a lottery gaming facility after all related prizes are paid.

(q) (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;

(D) any machine excluded from the definition of gambling devices under subsection (d) of K.S.A. 21-4302, prior to its repeal, or K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 21-6403, and amendments thereto; or

(E) any electronic gaming machine or lottery facility game operated in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas expanded lottery act.

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

(s) (1) "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.

(2) "Major procurement" shall not mean any product, service or other matter covered by or addressed in the Kansas expanded lottery act or a lottery gaming facility management contract or racetrack gaming facility management contract executed pursuant to the Kansas expanded lottery act.

(t) "Net electronic gaming machine income" means all cash or other consideration utilized to play an electronic gaming machine operated at a racetrack gaming facility, less all cash or other consideration paid out to winning players as prizes.

(u) "Organization licensee" has the meaning provided by K.S.A. 74-8802, and amendments thereto.

(v) "Parimutuel licensee" means a facility owner licensee or facility manager licensee under the Kansas parimutuel racing act.

(w) "Parimutuel licensee location" means a racetrack facility, as defined in K.S.A. 74-8802, and amendments thereto, owned or managed by the parimutuel licensee. A parimutuel licensee location may include any existing structure at such racetrack facility or any structure that may be constructed on real estate where such racetrack facility is located.

(x) "Person" means any natural person, association, limited liability company, corporation or partnership.

(y) "Prize" means any prize paid directly by the Kansas lottery pursuant to the Kansas lottery act or the Kansas expanded lottery act or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to either act.

(z) "Progressive electronic game" means a game played on an electronic gaming machine for which the payoff increases uniformly as the game is played and for which the jackpot, determined by application of a formula to the income of independent, local or interlinked electronic gaming machines, may be won.

(aa) "Racetrack gaming facility" means that portion of a parimutuel licensee location where electronic gaming machines are operated, managed and maintained.

(bb) "Racetrack gaming facility management contract" means an agreement between the Kansas lottery and a racetrack gaming facility manager, negotiated and signed by the executive director on behalf of the state, for placement of electronic gaming machines owned and operated by the state at a racetrack gaming facility.

(cc) "Racetrack gaming facility manager" means a parimutuel licensee specifically certified by the Kansas lottery to become a certified racetrack gaming facility manager and offer electronic gaming machines for play at the racetrack gaming facility.

(dd) "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.

(ee) "Share" means any intangible manifestation authorized by the Kansas lottery to prove participation in a lottery game, except as provided by the Kansas expanded lottery act.

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

(gg) "Token" means a representative of value, of metal or other material, which is not legal tender, redeemable for cash only by the issuing lottery gaming facility manager or racetrack gaming facility manager and which is issued and sold by a lottery gaming facility manager or racetrack gaming facility manager for the sole purpose of playing an electronic gaming machine or lottery facility game.

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

(ii) "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.

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; L. 2007, ch. 110, § 1; L. 2011, ch. 30, § 259; July 1.



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