KRS § 230.310 — KY Code / Title XIX / Chapter 230 / Section 230.310
230.310 License for participants in horse racing, sports wagering, or charitable gaming
Status: in_force

230.310 License for participants in horse racing, sports wagering, or charitable

gaming.

(1) (a) Every person not required to be licensed under KRS 230.300 who desires to

participate in horse racing in the Commonwealth as a horse owner, trainer,

jockey, apprentice jockey, agent, stable employee, racing official, association

employee, or employee of a person or concern contracting with the

association to provide a service or commodity and which requires their

presence on association grounds during a race meeting, or veterinarian,

farrier, horse dentist, or supplier of food, tack, medication, or horse feed, or in

any other capacity as the corporation may establish by administrative

regulation, shall first apply to the corporation for a license to participate in the

activity on association grounds during a race meeting. No person required to

be licensed by this section may participate in any activity required to be

licensed on association grounds during a race meeting without a valid license

therefor.

(b) An applicant for a license shall submit to the corporation fingerprints as may

be required and other information necessary and reasonable for processing a

license application. The corporation is authorized to exchange fingerprint data

with the Department of Kentucky State Police and the Federal Bureau of

Investigation in order to conduct a criminal history background check of an

applicant.

(c) The corporation may issue a license if it finds that the financial responsibility,

age, experience, reputation, competence, and general fitness of the applicant

to perform the activity permitted by a license are consistent with the best

interest of racing and the maintenance of the honesty, integrity, and high

quality thereof.

(2) (a) Every person who desires to participate in sports wagering in the

Commonwealth working in a licensed facility for sports wagering, directly

supervising individuals who have the capability of affecting the outcome of

sports wagering, or having the capability to affect the outcome of sports

wagering through deployment of code to production for any critical

component of a sports wagering system or the capability to deploy code to

production shall first apply to the corporation for a valid occupational license

to participate in that activity.

(b) An applicant for an occupational license shall submit to the corporation

fingerprints as may be required and other information necessary and

reasonable for processing a license application. The corporation is authorized

to exchange fingerprint data with the Department of Kentucky State Police

and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in order to conduct a criminal history

background check of an applicant.

(c) The corporation may issue a license if it finds that the financial responsibility,

age, experience, reputation, competence, and general fitness of the applicant

to perform the activity permitted by a license are consistent with the best

interest of sports wagering in the Commonwealth, and the maintenance of the

honesty, integrity, and high quality thereof.

(3) Every person who desires to be licensed to participate in charitable gaming shall

first meet the standards of this chapter and the standards established in KRS

Chapter 238.

(4) A license may be issued for the calendar year for which an applicant applies or, if

authorized by administrative regulation of the corporation, a license may be issued

that expires on the last day of the birth month of the licensee. A license may be

renewed by the corporation. The license shall be valid at all horse race meetings in

the Commonwealth during the period for which it is issued unless suspended or

revoked under the administrative regulations promulgated by the corporation under

this chapter. The occupational license to participate in sports wagering may be

suspended or revoked pursuant to administrative regulations promulgated by the

corporation under this chapter. With respect to horse owners and trainers, the

corporation may promulgate administrative regulations to facilitate and promote

uniform, reciprocal licensing with other states.