§ 1610. Sales to certain persons prohibited. a. No ticket shall be sold to any person under the age of eighteen years, but this shall not be deemed to prohibit the purchase of a ticket for the purpose of making a gift by a person eighteen years of age or older to a person less than that age. Any licensee or the employee or agent of any licensee who sells or offers to sell a lottery ticket to any person under the age of eighteen shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. b. No ticket shall be sold to and no prize shall be paid to any of the following persons:

(i) any member, officer or employee of the division; or

(ii) any member, officer or employee of the department of taxation and finance whose duties directly relate to the operation of the state lottery; or

(iii) any spouse, child, brother, sister or parent residing as a member of the same household in the principal place of abode of any of the foregoing persons.