Louisiana § RS 47:9071 - False or altered lottery tickets
Full text of Louisiana Louisiana Civil Code § RS 47:9071 — False or altered lottery tickets, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ RS 47:9071. False or altered lottery tickets
A. Any person, with intent to defraud, who falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes, or counterfeits a state lottery ticket shall be punished as provided in Subsection B.
B. Any person who influences or attempts to influence the winning of a prize through the use of coercion, fraud, deception, or tampering with lottery equipment or materials shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than five years and not more than twenty years without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of imposition of sentence.
Acts 1990, No. 1045, §1, eff. Nov. 7, 1990.
Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section RS 47:9071 ("False or altered lottery tickets") is part of the Louisiana Civil Code, the codified statutory law of Louisiana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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