Okla. Stat. tit. 3A, § 3A-724

Unclaimed prize monies.

A. Proceeds of any lottery prize shall be subject to the

Oklahoma state income tax.

B. Attachments, garnishments, or executions authorized and

issued pursuant to law shall be withheld if timely served upon the

Oklahoma Lottery Commission. This subsection shall not apply to

payment of prizes by a retailer.

C. The Commission shall adopt policies and procedures to

establish a system of verifying the validity of tickets or shares

claimed to win prizes and to effect payment of the prizes, except

that:

1. No prize, any portion of a prize, or any right of any person

to a prize awarded shall be assignable. Any prize or any portion of

a prize remaining unpaid at the death of a prize winner shall be

paid to the estate of the deceased prize winner or to the trustee of

a trust established by the deceased prize winner as settlor if a

copy of the trust document or instrument has been filed with the

Commission along with a notarized letter of direction from the

settlor and no written notice of revocation has been received by the

Commission prior to the death of the settlor. Following the death

of a settlor and prior to any payment to a successor trustee, the

Commission shall obtain from the trustee a written agreement to

indemnify and hold the Commission harmless with respect to any

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claims that may be asserted against the Commission arising from

payment to or through the trust. Notwithstanding any other

provisions of this section, any person, pursuant to an appropriate

judicial order, shall be paid the prize to which a winner is

entitled;

2. No prize shall be paid arising from claimed tickets that

are:

a. stolen, counterfeit, altered, fraudulent, unissued,

produced or issued in error, unreadable, not received,

or not recorded by the Commission within applicable

deadlines,

b. lacking in captions that conform and agree with the

play symbols as appropriate to the particular lottery

game involved, or

c. not in compliance with such additional public or

confidential validation and security tests of the

Commission appropriate to the particular lottery game

involved;

3. No particular prize in any lottery game shall be paid more

than once, and in the event of a determination that more than one

claimant is entitled to a particular prize, the sole remedy of the

claimants is the award to each of them of an equal share in the

prize;

4. A holder of a winning cash ticket or share from a lottery

game shall claim a cash prize within one hundred eighty (180) days,

or for a multistate or multisovereign lottery game within one

hundred eighty (180) days, after the drawing in which the cash prize

was won. In any Oklahoma lottery game in which the player may

determine instantly if the player has won or lost, the player shall

claim a cash prize within ninety (90) days, or for a multistate

lottery game within one hundred eighty (180) days, after the end of

the lottery game. If a valid claim is not made for a cash prize

within the applicable period, the cash prize shall constitute an

unclaimed prize for purposes of the Oklahoma Education Lottery Act;

5. Any person or persons claiming a lottery prize exceeding Six

Hundred Dollars ($600.00) shall provide the Commission with their

name, address, social security number or tax identification number,

and sufficient valid identification prior to payment of the prize by

the Commission. This information shall be confidential for purposes

of the Oklahoma Open Records Act, except for the person’s first

name, city of residence, and prize amount;

6. Any person or persons claiming a lottery prize exceeding

Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) shall provide the Commission with

their name, address, social security number or tax identification

number, proof of social security number or tax identification

number, and sufficient valid identification prior to payment of the
cept for the person’s first

name, city of residence, and prize amount;

6. Any person or persons claiming a lottery prize exceeding

Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) shall provide the Commission with

their name, address, social security number or tax identification

number, proof of social security number or tax identification

number, and sufficient valid identification prior to payment of the

prize by the Commission. This information shall be confidential for

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purposes of the Oklahoma Open Records Act, except for the person’s

first name, city of residence, and prize amount; and

7. Any person or persons claiming a lottery prize exceeding Six

Hundred Dollars ($600.00) as a trust shall provide for each person

entitled to any portion of the prize their name, address, social

security number or tax identification number, proof of social

security number or tax identification number, and sufficient valid

identification and trust certifications prior to payment of the

prize by the Commission except that such information specified in

this paragraph shall be confidential and not subject to the

provisions of the Oklahoma Open Records Act.

D. No prize shall be paid upon a ticket or share purchased or

sold in violation of the Oklahoma Education Lottery Act. Any such

prize shall constitute an unclaimed prize for purposes of the

Oklahoma Education Lottery Act.

E. The Commission is discharged of all liability upon payment

of a prize.

F. No ticket or share shall be purchased by and no prize shall

be paid to any member of the board of trustees of the Oklahoma

Lottery Commission, any officer or employee of the Commission, or to

any spouse, child, brother, sister, or parent residing as a member

of the same household in the principal place of residence of any

such person. No ticket or share shall be purchased by and no prize

shall be paid to any officer, employee, agent, or subcontractor of

any vendor or to any spouse, child, brother, sister, or parent

residing as a member of the same household in the principal place of

residence of any such person if the officer, employee, agent, or

subcontractor has access to confidential information which may

compromise the integrity of the lottery.

G. Unclaimed prize money shall not constitute net lottery

proceeds. The first Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars

($750,000.00) of unclaimed prize money accruing annually shall be

transferred to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Services for the treatment of compulsive gambling disorder and

educational programs related to such disorder. All other unclaimed

prize money shall be added to the pool from which future prizes are

to be awarded or used for special prize promotions.