Case ID: so2d_661/html/0955-02.html
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Author: {"author": "GUNTHER, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GULFSTREAM PARK RACING ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, DIVISION OF PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING, and The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association d/b/a The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association, and Stanley M. Ersoff, Appellees.
    No. 94-2850.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Oct. 25, 1995.
    
      David S. Romanik of Romanik, Lavin, Huss & Paoli, Hollywood, for appellant.
    John B. Fretwell, Tallahassee, for Appel-lee-Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering.
    Warren H. Husband of Messer, Vickers, Caparello, Madsen, Goldman & Metz, Tallahassee, for Appellees — Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association and Stanley M. Ersoff.
   GUNTHER, Chief Judge.

Appellant, Gulfstream Park Racing Association, Inc., appeals a declaratory statement issued by the Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. In the declaratory statement, the Division determined that section 550.2625(2)(a), Florida Statutes (1993), was clear and unambiguous and required Gulfstream to withhold and pay an additional three percent from all exotic wagering to thoroughbred horse owners when it withheld in excess of twenty percent from the handle during its 1994 meet. We affirm the declaratory statement and the Division’s interpretation of section 550.2625(2)(a) without prejudice to Gulfstream to raise any affirmative defenses in future proceedings.

AFFIRMED.

POLEN and STEVENSON, JJ., concur.