HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2236        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3611

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the state lottery..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 27 of Chapter 10 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1996 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:—

Losing scratch tickets, so-called, shall be redeemable by the licensee for the amount of five cents per ticket to be used only for the purchase of a lottery ticket.