Section 1615. Fiscal year of lottery, reporting requirements and fiscal planning

a. All books, accounts and records of the  division,  relating  to  the  state  lottery,  shall be kept by fiscal years beginning on the
  first day of April and ending on the  thirty-first  day  of  March  next
  following.  The  division  shall  separately  identify  the actual sales
  receipts, prizes, appropriations and expenditures  for  advertising  and
  promotions,  reserves  and the interest thereon by type by game, and the
  source and use of unclaimed prize funds by type by game  on  an  accrual
  and  cash basis where both are available and on an accrual or cash basis
  where both are not available.
    b. The director shall submit  to  the  director  of  the  budget,  the
  chairperson  of  the senate finance committee and the chairperson of the
  assembly  ways  and  means  committee,  an  annual  plan  detailing  the
  projected use of appropriations for advertising and promotions, reserves
  and  the  interest  thereon  by  type by game, and the source and use of
  unclaimed prize funds by type by game. Such plan shall be submitted  not
  later  than  submission  of the executive budget to the legislature each
  year and shall be updated quarterly on or before May  fifteenth,  August
  fifteenth  and  November fifteenth of any given calendar year. Such plan
  shall be considered the financial plan to be followed by the division in
  the  subsequent  fiscal  year   unless   modified   during   legislative
  deliberations  on  the  state  budget. Such plan or update thereto shall
  include any plans for the introduction  of  a  new  game  prior  to  its
  introduction  and  shall  be subject to subdivision a of section sixteen
  hundred fourteen of this article.
    c. Such plan and any update thereto shall describe the specific amount
  of funds to be used to implement each element of the  plan  by  type  by
  game  on  an  accrual  and cash basis where both are available and on an
  accrual or cash basis where both are not available. They  shall  include
  the intended duration of such use, the revenues expected to be generated
  by  such  use,  the  actual  sales,  prize  awards,  appropriations  and
  expenditures for advertising and promotions, reserves and  the  interest
  thereon,  and  the  source  and  use of unclaimed prize funds by type by
  game, and such other information as the director deems appropriate. Such
  plan and any update thereto shall also describe  an  evaluation  of  the
  previous  quarterly  and  fiscal year-to-date losses or gains therefrom.
  Such updates shall report estimated year-end balances  pursuant  to  the
  plan  and  adjusted  estimated year-end balances based on updates to the
  plan by type by game.
    * d. Such plan and any update thereto shall include information on the
  implementation and ongoing  operation  of  a  lottery  game  established
  pursuant  to  paragraph  one of subdivision a of section sixteen hundred
  twelve of this article. Such  information  shall  include,  but  not  be
  limited  to,  a  statewide  and a county by county breakdown of premises
  with television equipment that automatically  displays  the  results  of
  such game including:
    (1) the total number of such premises;
    (2) the total sales of such premises;
    (3) the average sales per hour of operation of such game;
    (4)  the average and median square footage of such premises as defined
  by item (ii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph one of  subdivision  a  of
  section sixteen hundred twelve of this article;
    (5)  the  total  number  of  such  premises and total sales by type as
  defined by item (i), (ii) or (iii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph  one
  of subdivision a of section sixteen hundred twelve of this article.
    In  addition,  the  nineteen  hundred ninety-eight--ninety-nine annual
  plan  shall  include  an  evaluation,  done  in  conjunction  with   the
  commissioner  of  mental  health,  of  the  impact  of  a  lottery game,

  established pursuant to  paragraph  one  of  subdivision  a  of  section
  sixteen hundred twelve of this article, on compulsive gambling.
    * NB Repealed May 31, 2010