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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="3-307" title_number="3" title_name="Budget and Management" subtitle_number="3">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Certification of a debt or claim owed to the State that the Central Collection Unit sends to the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency under § 3–304(a)(4) of this subtitle shall contain:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the full name of the debtor and any other name known to be used by the debtor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Social Security number of the debtor; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the amount of the debt.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If a debtor wins a lottery prize to be paid directly by the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency shall notify the debtor that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the debtor has won a prize to be paid by the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency has received notice from the Central Collection Unit of the debtor’s debt or claim owed to the State in the specified amount;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>State law requires the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to withhold the prize and to pay it towards the debtor’s debt or claim;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the debtor may appeal to the Central Collection Unit if the debtor disputes the existence or the amount of the debt or claim; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>if an appeal is not filed within 15 days after the date of the notice, the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency will transfer the prize or the part of the prize that equals the amount of the debt or claim to the Central Collection Unit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency shall withhold all or part of the prize up to the amount of the debt or claim owed to the State until the Central Collection Unit notifies the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to whom the withheld prize money is to be paid.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency shall honor lottery prize interception requests in the following order:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an interception request under § 10–113.1 of the Family Law Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an interception request under § 11–618 of the Criminal Procedure Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>an interception request under this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>an interception request under § 3–308 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On receipt of a notice from the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, a debtor who disputes the existence or amount of the debt or claim may appeal the proposed transfer in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the State Government Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If an appeal is not filed within 15 days after the date of the notice, the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency shall transfer the amount of the prize withheld to the Central Collection Unit.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the debtor appeals the proposed transfer, after a hearing the Central Collection Unit shall notify the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency that the withheld prize shall be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>paid to the debtor;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>transferred to the Central Collection Unit; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>in specified amounts, partly paid to the debtor and partly transferred to the Central Collection Unit.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Secretary and the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency may jointly adopt regulations to carry out this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
