Section 370-1600-1606 - TICKET VALIDATION1606.01 To be a valid ticket and eligible to receive a prize, a ticket shall satisfy all the requirements established by the Nebraska Lottery for validation of winning tickets sold through its on-line system and any other validation requirements adopted by the Product Group, the MUSL Board and published as the Confidential MUSL Minimum Game Security Standards. The MUSL and the Nebraska Lottery shall not be responsible for tickets which are altered in any manner.1606.02 Under no circumstances will a claim be paid any prize without an official Mega Millions ticket (or subscription) matching all game play, serial number and other validation data residing in the selling Party Lottery's gaming system computer and such ticket (or subscription) shall be the only valid proof of the wager placed and the only valid receipt for claiming or redeeming such prize.1606.03 In addition to the above, in order to be deemed a valid, winning Mega Millions ticket, all of the following conditions must be met: (a) The validation data must be present in its entirety and must correspond, using the computer validation file, to the number selections printed on the ticket for the drawing date(s) printed on the ticket;(b) The ticket must be intact;(c) The ticket must not be mutilated, altered, reconstituted, or tampered with in any manner;(d) The ticket must not be counterfeit or an exact duplicate of another winning ticket;(e) The ticket must have been issued by an authorized Mega Millions agent, sales agent or retailer on official paper stock of the selling Party Lottery;(f) The ticket must not have been stolen, to the knowledge of the Party Lottery;(g) The ticket must be submitted for payment in accordance with Section 10 of the Game Rules (Procedures for Claiming and Payment of Prizes);(h) The ticket data must have been recorded on the central computer system prior to the drawing and the ticket data must match this computer record in every respect. In the event of a contradiction between information as printed on the ticket and as accepted by the Party Lottery computer, the wager accepted by the Party Lottery computer shall be the valid wager;(i) The player or computer number selections, validation data and the drawing date(s) of an apparent winning ticket must appear on the official file of winning tickets, and a ticket with that exact data must not have been previously paid;(j) The ticket must not be misregistered, defectively printed or printed or produced in error to an extent that it cannot be processed by the Party Lottery that issued the ticket;(k) The ticket must pass validation tests using a minimum of three (3) of the five (5) validation methods as defined in the Mega Millions Finance and Operations Procedures, Section 15. In addition, the ticket must pass all other confidential security checks of the Party Lottery that issued the ticket;(l) In submitting a Mega Millions ticket for validation, the claimant agrees to abide by applicable laws, all rules and regulations, instructions, conditions and final decisions of the Director of the Nebraska Lottery;(m) There must not be any other breach of these Mega Millions Rules in relation to the ticket, which, in the opinion of the Director justifies invalidation.(n) The ticket must be submitted to the Party Lottery that issued it.1606.04 An official Mega Millions ticket submitted for validation which fails any of the preceding validation conditions shall be considered void, subject to the following determinations: (a) In all cases of doubt, the determination of the Nebraska Lottery shall be final and binding; however, the Nebraska Lottery may, at its sole option, replace an invalid ticket with a Mega Millions ticket of equivalent sales price;(b) In the event a defective ticket is purchased or in the event the Nebraska Lottery determines to adjust an error, the Claimant's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the replacement of such defective or erroneous ticket(s) with a Mega Millions ticket of equivalent sales price;(c) In the event a Mega Millions ticket is not paid by the Nebraska Lottery and a dispute occurs as to whether the ticket is a winning ticket, the Nebraska Lottery may, at its option, replace the ticket as provided in paragraph (a) of this subsection. This shall be the sole and exclusive remedy of the Claimant.1606.05 Invalid Tickets The Nebraska Lottery shall not be responsible for misdelivered, unrecorded, counterfeit, misregistered, mutilated, tampered with, defectively printed or produced, or damaged tickets, or any other ticket that fails to meet the requirements of these regulations or Rule 31 of the Game Rules (Ticket Validation).
370 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1600, § 1606