N.Y. General Obligations Law § 5-423: Money paid for lottery tickets may be recovered by action

§ 5-423. Money paid for lottery tickets may be recovered by action.

Any person who shall purchase any share, interest, ticket, certificate

of any share or interest, or part of a ticket, or any paper or

instrument purporting to be a ticket or share or interest in any ticket,

or purporting to be a certificate of any share or interest in any

ticket, or in any portion of any lottery, may sue for and recover double

the sum of money, and double the value of goods or things in action,

which he may have paid or delivered in consideration of such purchase,

with double costs of suit.

Any person who shall have paid any money, or valuable thing, for a

chance or interest in any lottery or distribution, prohibited by the

penal law, may sue for and recover the same of the person to whom such

payment or delivery was made.