A. No person shall sell a ticket or share in a ticket at a price greater than that fixed by the Commission. No person other than a lottery agent shall sell lottery tickets. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any individual purchaser from giving lottery tickets or shares to another as a gift. Any person convicted of violating this article shall be punished by imprisonment for six months and a fine of $1,000.00.

B. Any person who falsely or fraudulently makes, forges, alters, or counterfeits or causes or procures to be made, forged, altered, or counterfeited, any Vermont State Lottery ticket or Commission ticket as any party thereof, or any person who knowingly and willfully utters, publishes, passes, or tenders as true, any forged, altered, or counterfeited Vermont Lottery tickets or Commission lottery tickets shall be punished by imprisonment for six months and a fine of $5,000.00.

C. Any subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment for two years and $20,000.00 fine for each offense. (Added 1985, No. 28, § 2; amended 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 183.)