In an organization plan of a lottery business, an issuance organization plan, a sales organization plan, a distribution organization plan, and an outsourcing plan are established. Issuance agency types based on a Minnesota report are divided into an independent agency, a part of other agency, and an executive branch agency.

An independent agency separates from the executive branch. The degree of independence varies. Those with the greatest independence function as publicly-held corporations similar to port authorities. Those with less independence function with greater autonomy than executive branch agencies but are still subject to civil service, procurement, and other requirements from which publicly-held corporations are often exempt.

The next most common model makes the lottery a division of another executive branch agency. Of these states, all but four make it part of the state agency responsible for the collection of taxation. Some administrative functions are shared with the parent agency, but strategic and operational decisions are made independently.

An executive branch agency is a ticket issuance organization independently operated in a government. It is a trend that ticket issuance agencies over the world are changed to independent agencies for expertise and business continuity. According to the characteristics of each issuance organization, a ticket issuance process and an action body vary, and management information and a security level for each related company vary.