Section 12 License to Sell Lottery Tickets

The second paragraph of section 27 of said chapter 10, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following 2 sentences:- No member of the commission or covered state employee or member of their immediate family residing in the same household in the principal place of abode of any member of the commission or covered state employee, or legal entity that includes such a person as an officer, director, member, partner, owner, investor or an individual that has a financial interest in the entity, unless said interest is in a publicly traded company by ownership of shares of less than 10 per cent of all issued stock, shall be issued a license to sell lottery tickets. For the purposes of this paragraph, "covered state employee" shall mean a state employee, as defined in section 1 of chapter 268A, or a special state employee, as defined in section 1 of chapter 268A, of the commission, and "immediate family" shall have the same meaning as defined in section 1 of chapter 268A.