São Carlos city council in Brazil approved a bill authorising a municipal lottery, with 14 votes in favour and four against, according to the report. The approved text provides for a 25-year concession, while the city government has not announced an operating start date.
The approval creates a proposed 25-year municipal lottery concession in São Carlos.
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Brazil's Finance Ministry said São Gonçalo's proposed municipal lottery lacks legal support after the city council approved the project on 26 February. The ministry said lottery operation is permitted at federal and state levels, while the mayor's office cited a 2020 federal court decision as support for municipal lotteries.
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Cuiabá City Council approved a legislative project to revoke the 2022 law that established the city’s public lottery service, after an extraordinary meeting on 19 February. The project, initiated by the city’s Executive Branch, received favourable opinions from two commissions and now goes to plenary discussion; it follows a Supreme Court order suspending municipal lottery laws and operations.
Bodó City Council told Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court that it had formally closed LotSeridó and repealed the local legislation underpinning the lottery. The council said the service stopped operating on 24 October 2025, before the court’s injunction ordering the suspension of municipal lotteries nationwide.