Legal Question in Business Law in Texas
I am an owner of a small quilt shop in Texas. We have an annual event where we put together a gift basket and for every $10 a customer spends, they get a ticket for the gift basket drawing. Every person that comes into the shop, during that time, gets one ticket whether or not they make a $10 purchase.
For example, someone walks in and spends $50, they get 5 tickets or someone walks in and doesn't spend anything and they get 1 ticket.
Is this legal?
1 Answer from Attorneys
This is not a legal answer, but I think it is OK. There could be an interpretation, that this is a lottery, or that people are "like gambling", Churches to this type of thing all of the time, so do non profits. I do not see a real world problem, especially since all of customers get a chance. If you want to check it out further, you could speak to the police department, and see how they react. There may a a license for this type of thing. Again this is not a legal answer, merely a common sense reply.
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