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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="3-308" title_number="3" title_name="Budget and Management" subtitle_number="3">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “video lottery operator” has the meaning stated in § 9–1A–01 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Certification of a debt or claim owed to the State that the Central Collection Unit sends to the video lottery operator 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="c">
    <text>If a debtor wins a prize to be paid directly by a video lottery operator requiring the issuance of Internal Revenue Service form W–2G or a substantially equivalent form by the video lottery operator, the video lottery operator shall notify the debtor that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the debtor has won a prize to be paid by the video lottery operator;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the video lottery operator 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 video lottery operator to withhold the prize and to pay it toward 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 video lottery operator 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="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The video lottery operator shall withhold all or part of the prize up to the amount of the debt or claim owed to the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The video lottery operator shall honor 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 § 3–307 of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>an interception request under this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On receipt of a notice from the video lottery operator, 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 video lottery operator 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 held in accordance with Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the State Government Article, the Central Collection Unit shall notify the video lottery operator 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="f">
    <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>
