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S.B. 225
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VETOES
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2. A COURT MAY NOT ISSUE AN ORDER AUTHORIZING A
VOLUNTARY ASSIGNMENT UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH.
(c) A licensed agent may pay in cash game prizes of not more than $5,000.
(d) (1) In this subsection, the words "bank" and "guardian" and references to
a "member" of a "minor's family" have the meanings stated in § 13-301 of the Estates
and Trusts Article.
(2) If a minor wins a prize of less than $5,000, the Director may give a
draft, as provided for in rules and regulations of the Agency payable to the order of
the minor, to:
(i) an adult member of the minor's family; or
(ii) a guardian of the minor.
(3) If a minor wins $5,000 or more, the Director may deposit the prize in
a bank to the credit of 1 of the following, as custodian for the minor:
(i) an adult member of the minor's family; or
(ii) a guardian of the minor.
(4) A custodian under paragraph (3) of this subsection has the same
powers and duties as a custodian under the Maryland Uniform Transfers to Minors
Act.
(e) On payment of a prize in accordance with this section, the Director is
discharged of all liability.
(f) (1) A prize winner shall claim a prize within 182 days after the drawing
in which the prize is won.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, the Director
shall keep an unclaimed prize:
(i) for 182 days after the drawing in which the prize is won, for
payment of the winner; and
(ii) then in an unclaimed prize fund for use for other prizes.
(3) For a game that the Agency designates as a bonus game or drawing
and that is not a daily or weekly State lottery drawing, the period for claiming a prize
may differ from the period set in paragraph (2) of this subsection.
(g) (1) Unless otherwise specifically provided by the laws of the State, and
except for prizes paid for any multistate lottery game, the State and every officer,
department, agency, board, commission, or other unit of State government may not
raise the defense of sovereign immunity in the courts of the State in an action in
contract brought by an annuitant or prize winner that is based on the liability of the
State to pay an annuitant or prize winner the prize that the annuitant is entitled to
receive in accordance with this subtitle and any regulations adopted under this
subtitle.
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