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Government Code §466.151
In force on Feb 12, 2016 · this text took effect Sep 01, 1995 · amended later, effective Jun 20, 2025
LICENSE REQUIRED
(a) If the executive director authorizes a person who is not an employee of the commission to sell tickets, the person must be licensed as a sales agent by the commission.
(b) The executive director may establish a provisional license or other classes of licenses necessary to regulate and administer the quantity and type of lottery games provided at each licensed location.
(c) The director shall attempt to license minority businesses as sales agents in at least 20 percent of the licenses issued. Implementation of this subsection must be consistent with Sections 466.152-466.154 and the rest of this section.
(d) The director may license as a sales agent each person the director believes will best serve the public convenience. The director may not issue a license to a person to engage in business exclusively as a sales agent. A license may not be transferred or assigned to any other person or location.
(e) The director may issue a license to a person only if the director finds that the person's experience, character, and general fitness are such that the person's participation as a sales agent will not detract from the integrity, security, honesty, and fairness of the operation of the lottery.
History: Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 107, Sec. 4.03(b), eff. Aug. 30, 1993. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 6.18, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source: Internet Archive capture, seen Sep 22, 2018 to Aug 08, 2025.
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- Effective Jun 20, 2025 · seen Sep 2025–Nov 2026
- Effective Sep 01, 1995 · seen Sep 2018–Aug 2025
Attorney General opinions that cite it
- KP-0107 (Feb 12, 2016): Authority of the Texas Lottery Commission to deny, suspend, or revoke a lottery ticket sales agent license in specific instances (RQ,.0096-KP) You ask whether the Texas Lottery Commission ("Commission") in specific instances may deny, suspend, or revoke a lottery ticket sales agent license ... where the Commission has evidence ... that an applicant or licensee has conducted or allowed illegal gambling activity at its retail location but [the person] has not been convicted of gambling or a gambling-related offense. 1 You also ask several questions conditioned on the outcome of our analysis. See
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