Section 401.355 - Restricted Sales(a) Retailers shall not sell lottery tickets by mail, phone, fax, or other similar method of communications. Retailers shall not sell a lottery ticket or any other document evidencing a right, privilege, or share in a lottery ticket from another jurisdiction by any means.(b) Retailers shall not sell tickets to persons under the age of 18. Any ticket purchased by or sold to an individual under the age of 18 years shall be void and the prize otherwise payable on the ticket is treated as an unclaimed prize under § RSA 401.302<subdiv>(j)(3)</subdiv> of this title (relating to Scratch Ticket Game Rules).(c) Retailers shall not sell a ticket or pay a lottery prize to another person that the retailer knows is: (1) an officer or an employee of the commission;(2) an officer, member, or employee of a lottery operator;(3) an officer, member, or employee of a contractor or subcontractor that is excluded by the terms of its contract from playing lottery games;(4) the spouse, child, brother, sister, or parent of a person described by paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection who resides within the same household as that person.(d) Retailers shall not sell tickets from a game after the game's closing date.16 Tex. Admin. Code § 401.355
The provisions of this §401.355 adopted to be effective June 3, 1992, 17 TexReg 3731; transferred effective December 27, 1993, as published in the Texas Register January 4, 1994, 19 TexReg 78; amended to be effective March 14, 1996, 21 TexReg 1756; amended to be effective May 20, 2001, 26 TexReg 3489; amended to be effective July 1, 2012, 37 TexReg 4596; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 34, August 21, 2020, TexReg 5909, eff. 8/30/2020