O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-27-18 (2019)

Retailer contracts not transferable or assignable; restriction on contracts and sales

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) No lottery retailer contract shall be transferable or assignable. No lottery retailer shall contract with any person for lottery goods or services except with the approval of the board.

(b) Lottery tickets and shares shall only be sold by the retailer stated on the lottery retailer certificate.

History

Code 1981, § 50-27-18, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 3173, § 2.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Bankruptcy by lottery retailer. - When a Chapter 7 debtor executed a retail lottery contract with the state as an officer of a corporation that had not yet been formed, subsequent adoption of the pre-incorporation contract by the corpora-

tion was not equivalent of assignment or transfer and would not be prohibited by O.C.G.A. § 50-27-18. Ga. Lottery Corp. v. Ingram (In re Ingram), No. 06-11313-WHD, 2008 Bankr. LEXIS 1036 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. Feb. 29, 2008).