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.\nb. No ticket shall be sold to and no prize shall be paid to any of the following persons:\n(i) any member, officer or employee of the division; or\n(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\n(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.
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