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2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 224 - Penalty for Unlawful Racing and Betting.

§  224.  Penalty for unlawful racing and betting. All racing or trials
  of speed between horses or other animals for any bet, stake  or  reward,
  except  such  as  is  allowed  by  this article or by special laws, is a
  public nuisance; and every person acting or aiding therein, or making or
  being interested in such bet, stake or reward is guilty of a misdemeanor
  and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail  or
  penitentiary  for a period of not more than one year; and in addition to
  the penalty prescribed therefor he forfeits to the people of this  state
  all  title  or interest in any animal used with his privity in such race
  or trial of speed, and in any sum of money or other property  betted  or
  staked upon the result thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 225 - Registration of Race Horses.

§  225.  Registration  of race horses. The true name, sex and age, and
  also the pedigree, unless such pedigree  is  unknown,  of  every  horse,
  mare,  gelding,  colt or filly shall be registered with the jockey club,
  United States trotting association, American quarter horse  association,
  the  national  steeplechase and hunt association or such other entity as
  the commission may designate before it shall be eligible to  compete  in
  any  race  conducted  under a license or franchise of the commission and
  such name shall continue to be its true name unless and until  the  same
  shall  be  changed  according  to  the  rules  and  regulations  of such
  organization. The class to which any such animal belongs for the purpose
  of the entry or competition in any  race  shall  be  determined  by  the
  public  performance  thereof  in  former contests or trials of speed, as
  prescribed  by  the  printed  rules  of  the  person,   association   or
  corporation sponsoring such race. No horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly
  shall   be  eligible  to  compete  in  any  race,  unless  it  is  first
  microchipped and registered with the jockey club, United States trotting
  association,  American   quarter   horse   association,   the   national
  steeplechase  and  hunt  association or such other entity, as applicable
  and as the commission may designate. The commission may request that all
  microchip information be provided and available  to  the  commission  as
  necessary pursuant to this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 226 - Increased or Additional Entrance Fees.

§ 226. Increased or additional entrance fees. A corporation authorized
  by  or entitled to the benefits of this article, conducting a running or
  steeplechase meeting, shall  have  the  right  to  charge  increased  or
  additional  entrance  fees  for  admission  to  any  special  portion or
  portions of the grounds of such corporation, unless such pool-selling or
  bookmaking as is punishable by fine or imprisonment, or  other  acts  so
  punishable be thereon authorized or knowingly permitted.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 229 - Backstretch Employees Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Eligibility.

§   229.   Backstretch   employees  drug  and  alcohol  rehabilitation
  eligibility. Any licensed not-for-profit organization providing drug and
  alcohol rehabilitation services to backstretch employees  shall  receive
  information  concerning  available  funding and existing programs from a
  coordinated effort of the commission and  division  of  substance  abuse
  services.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 230 - Membership in a National Thoroughbred Racing Association.

§  230.  Membership  in  a  national  thoroughbred racing association.
  Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,  if  a
  majority  of  the  board  of  directors  of  a  horsemen's  organization
  qualified pursuant to section two hundred twenty-eight of  this  article
  shall  annually  approve,  the  qualified  horsemen's  organization  may
  request that the franchised corporation make payments, from funds earned
  and  retained  for  purses,  to   the   National   Thoroughbred   Racing
  Association, for the purposes of establishing and maintaining membership
  for  such  organization.  Upon  receipt  of  a  duly  adopted  corporate
  resolution  requesting  payment  to  the  National  Thoroughbred  Racing
  Association  from  a  qualified  horsemen's organization, the franchised
  corporation shall make payments  from  funds  earned  and  retained  for
  purses on behalf of such qualified horsemen's organization, provided:
1.  In  no  event  shall  the sum of the payments made pursuant to the
  corporate resolution during any twelve month  period  exceed  an  amount
  equal  to one and one-quarter per centum of the total purses paid at all
  tracks operated by  the  franchised  corporation  during  the  preceding
  calendar year.
2.  Payments shall be made by the franchised corporation in accordance
  with a schedule provided in the corporate resolution by the board of the
  qualified horsemen's organization. Such schedule shall (i) identify  the
  twelve  month  period  commencing on April first during which a specific
  sum is to be  paid  and  (ii)  delineate  a  timetable  for  making  the
  payments,  which  are  to be equal in amount and made no less frequently
  than every three months.
3. Upon receipt of  a  duly  adopted  corporate  resolution  from  the
  qualified  horsemen's  organization stating that a majority of its board
  members has voted to rescind approval of such payments,  the  franchised
  corporation  shall make no further payments unless and until it receives
  a duly adopted corporate resolution as described in this section.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 231 - Pari-Mutuel Betting on Horse Races Legalized.

§  231.  Pari-mutuel betting on horse races legalized. In the exercise
  of the authority vested in it by section nine  of  article  one  of  the
  state  constitution,  as  amended  by  vote of the people at the general
  election in November,  nineteen  hundred  thirty-nine,  the  legislature
  prescribes  that  pari-mutuel  betting on horse races shall be lawful in
  this state if conducted in the manner and subject to the conditions  and
  supervision  provided by this chapter, notwithstanding the provisions of
  any other law, general, special or  local,  prohibiting  or  restricting
  lotteries, pool-selling or bookmaking, or any other kind of gambling; it
  being  the purpose of this chapter to derive from such betting as herein
  authorized a reasonable revenue for the support  of  government  and  to
  promote  agriculture generally and the improvement of breeding of horses
  particularly in the  state.  Such  pari-mutuel  betting  shall  only  be
  conducted  within  the  grounds  or enclosure of a racetrack on races at
  such track and on such dates when racing at such track shall  have  been
  authorized  pursuant to this chapter; provided, however, that nothing in
  this section shall be deemed to prohibit off-track  pari-mutuel  betting
  in  a  municipality  pursuant  to  article  five,  five-A or six of this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 232 - License to Conduct Pari-Mutuel Betting at Race Meetings for Running Races or Steeplechases.

§  232.  License  to  conduct pari-mutuel betting at race meetings for
  running races or steeplechases. 1.  Any  corporation,  at  the  time  of
  making  application  to  the  commission for a license to conduct a race
  course or a race meeting for running races or steeplechases, or at  such
  subsequent  time  as  the  commission  may  permit,  may  apply  to such
  commission for a license to conduct at  such  race  meeting  pari-mutuel
  betting on the races to be run thereat. The commission may prescribe the
  form  in  which such application shall be made and the information to be
  furnished by such corporation. If the commission is satisfied from  such
  application, or from other sources of information, that the racetrack of
  such  corporation  for which such application is made has facilities and
  equipment sufficient to accommodate its probable number of patrons,  the
  commission  shall  issue  to  such  corporation  a  license  to  conduct
  pari-mutuel  betting  in  the  manner  and  subject  to  the  conditions
  prescribed  by  this chapter, at the racetrack described in such license
  on the days specified in such license.
2. The refusal of an application for such license shall be preceded by
  notice and an opportunity to be heard. In the conduct  of  such  hearing
  the commission shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence but all
  evidence  offered before the commission shall be reduced to writing, and
  such evidence together with the exhibits, if any, and  the  findings  of
  the  commission, shall be permanently preserved and shall constitute the
  record of the commission in such case. Such hearing may be presided over
  by the chair of the commission or by any member or by an officer of  the
  commission  designated by the chair in writing to act as hearing officer
  and such person  or  persons  may  issue  subpoenas  for  witnesses  and
  administer oaths to witnesses. The hearing officer, at the conclusion of
  the  hearing shall make findings which, if concurred in by a majority of
  the commission, shall become the findings of the commission. The  action
  of  the  commission  in  refusing  a  license shall be reviewable in the
  supreme court in the  manner  provided  by  the  provisions  of  article
  seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 233 - Bond Required of Corporation Conducting Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§ 233. Bond required of corporation conducting pari-mutuel betting. 1.
  Every  corporation  franchised  or licensed by the commission to conduct
  pari-mutuel betting,  annually  and  before  the  opening  of  any  race
  meeting,  shall  execute  and file with the state comptroller, a bond to
  the state in a penalty to be fixed by the commissioner of  taxation  and
  finance  not  exceeding  five  hundred  thousand  dollars, with sureties
  approved by the attorney general,  that  it  will  keep  its  books  and
  records  and  make reports as required by this chapter, that it will pay
  to the state all taxes imposed by this chapter, that it will  distribute
  to  the  patrons  of pari-mutuel pools conducted by it all sums due upon
  presentation of winning tickets held by them, and that it will otherwise
  comply with all the provisions  of  this  chapter  in  relation  to  the
  conduct of races and of pari-mutuel betting on its racetrack.
2.  In  addition  hereto,  every  such  corporation  first licensed or
  franchised after January first, nineteen  hundred  eighty-six,  annually
  and  before  the opening of any race meeting shall execute and file with
  the state comptroller, a bond to the state in a penalty to be  fixed  by
  the  commission  not  exceeding  five  hundred  thousand  dollars,  with
  sureties approved by the attorney general, that  such  corporation  will
  make  all  purse  payments advertised and offered as premiums, prizes or
  awards to owners of horses competing in races at such track  within  one
  week of such race, or, if such payment is ordered held by the commission
  pending  investigation  by  it of any race, into a trust account pending
  completion of such investigation.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 234 - Place and Manner of Conducting Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§  234.  Place  and  manner  of  conducting  pari-mutuel  betting. Any
  corporation licensed or franchised to conduct pari-mutuel betting  at  a
  horse  race  meeting  shall  provide  a  place or places within the race
  meeting grounds or enclosure at which such licensee or franchisee  shall
  conduct  the pari-mutuel system of betting by its patrons on the results
  of the horse races at such  meeting.  Such  place  or  places  shall  be
  provided  with  necessary  equipment  for issuing or vending pari-mutuel
  tickets, and adding machine equipment and a device capable  of  accurate
  and speedy determination of the amount of money in each pool and on each
  horse  and  the  amount  of  award  or  dividend  to winning patrons and
  displaying the same to its patrons. Such place shall  also  be  equipped
  with  automatic  or  hand-operated  machinery for displaying on a mutuel
  indicator in plain view  of  the  public,  the  total  amount  of  sales
  separately  for straight, place and show on every race and on each horse
  in such race. The machine or mutuel indicator  shall  also  display  the
  approximate  straight  odds  on  each  horse in any race; the value of a
  two-dollar winning mutuel ticket, straight, place and show, on the first
  three horses in any race; the elapsed time of the race; the value  of  a
  two-dollar  daily double ticket, if a daily double be conducted; and any
  other information that may be necessary for the guidance of the  general
  public  that the commission may require. All such machines and equipment
  must be approved by the commission and the department  of  taxation  and
  finance  before  being  used,  but  the commission shall not require the
  installation  of  any  particular  make  of  mechanical  or   electrical
  equipment.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 235 - Rules for the Conduct of Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§ 235. Rules for the conduct of pari-mutuel betting. 1. The commission
  shall  make  rules  regulating  the  conduct  of pari-mutuel betting, as
  authorized pursuant to this chapter.
2. The rules shall provide that all winning pari-mutuel  tickets  must
  be  presented  for  payment before April first of the year following the
  year of their purchase and failure to present any such ticket within the
  prescribed period of time shall constitute a  waiver  of  the  right  to
  participate in the award or dividend.
3.  The  department of taxation and finance is hereby charged with the
  financial administration of pari-mutuel betting as herein described  and
  as  supplemented  by  the  rules  and regulations of the commission. The
  department of taxation and finance shall have authority to prescribe the
  forms and the system of  accounting  to  be  employed  and  through  its
  representatives shall at all times have access to the issuing or vending
  machines,   the  adding  machines  and  all  other  pari-mutuel  betting
  equipment.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 239 - Books and Records of Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§  239. Books and records of pari-mutuel betting. Every corporation or
  association conducting a horse race meeting at which pari-mutuel betting
  on the races run at such meeting is authorized shall keep its books  and
  records  so  as to clearly show by a separate record the total amount of
  money contributed to every  pari-mutuel  pool,  including  daily  double
  pools,  if  any.  The  department  of  taxation  and finance or its duly
  authorized representatives shall at all reasonable times have access  to
  all such books and records for the purpose of examining and checking the
  same and ascertaining whether or not the proper amount or amounts due to
  the state are being paid by such licensed or franchised corporation.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 241 - Disposition of Unpaid Money Due on Account of Pari-Mutuel Tickets Not Presented.

§  241.  Disposition  of  unpaid  money  due on account of pari-mutuel
  tickets not presented. The sum held by  any  corporation  authorized  to
  conduct   pari-mutuel   betting   for  payment  of  outstanding  winning
  pari-mutuel tickets and for refunding the price of  pari-mutuel  tickets
  shall  be  retained  by  such  corporation for such purposes until April
  first of the succeeding year; provided, however,  that  ninety-five  per
  centum of such sum remaining unclaimed as of the last day of February of
  such  year  shall  be  paid to the department of taxation and finance by
  March fifteenth. On April tenth,  the  balance  of  such  sum  remaining
  unclaimed  and  any  other  unclaimed  amount  received in the course of
  conducting pari-mutuel betting  shall  be  paid  to  the  department  of
  taxation  and  finance. A penalty of five per centum and interest at the
  rate of one per centum per month from  the  due  date  to  the  date  of
  payment  of the unclaimed balance due March fifteenth or April tenth, as
  the case may be, shall be payable in case such balance is not paid  when
  due.  Such  amounts, interest and penalties when collected shall be paid
  by the department of taxation and finance into the general fund  of  the
  state treasury.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 242 - Races for Horses Bred in the State.

§  242. Races for horses bred in the state. The commission in granting
  a license to a corporation to conduct running or steeplechase  races  at
  its racetrack, if the commission deems such requirement practicable, may
  require  such  corporation  to  provide for at least one race during the
  racing season in which the entries shall be exclusively horses foaled in
  this state.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 243 - Free or Reduced Fee Passes, Cards or Badges.

§  243.  Free  or  reduced  fee passes, cards or badges. A corporation
  licensed or franchised to conduct pari-mutuel betting on  races  run  on
  its  racetrack  may  issue free passes, cards or badges to any qualified
  person. A qualified person shall include, but need not  be  limited  to,
  officers  and  employees of the corporation conducting the race meeting,
  members, officers and employees of the commission, members and employees
  of the jockey club, members and employees of the  national  steeplechase
  and  hunt association, members of turf organizations of other states and
  foreign countries, public officers engaged in the performance  of  their
  duties,  persons actually employed and accredited by the press to attend
  such  meetings,  owners,  stable  managers,  trainers,  jockeys,  jockey
  managers,   grooms,  concessionaires,  spouses,  domestic  partners  and
  children of owners, trainers and jockeys,  other  persons  whose  actual
  duties require their presence at such racetrack, and any other person or
  guest  deemed  appropriate  by  such  corporation.  In addition, free or
  reduced fee passes, cards or badges may be issued to the general  public
  or  segments  of  the  general public in connection with any promotional
  campaign or marketing program sponsored by such corporation to  increase
  attendance  at  live  race  meets. The issuance of free passes, cards or
  badges shall be under the rules and regulations of the commission.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 244 - Revocation of License or Franchise.

§ 244. Revocation of license or franchise. The commission may revoke a
  license  issued by it under this chapter or a franchise granted pursuant
  to section two hundred six of this article if the corporation  to  which
  such  license  or  franchise  shall have been issued, or its officers or
  directors, shall not conduct racing at its track, including  pari-mutuel
  betting on races thereat, in accordance with the terms and conditions of
  such license or franchise, with the rules of the commission and with the
  provisions  of  this  chapter; or if such corporation or its officers or
  directors shall knowingly permit on its grounds or within the  enclosure
  of  its  racetrack,  lotteries, pool selling or bookmaking, or any other
  kind of gambling, in violation of this chapter or of the penal law.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 245 - Hearing on Refusal or Revocation of License or Franchise.

§  245.  Hearing  on refusal or revocation of license or franchise. If
  the commission refuses  to  grant  a  license  applied  for  under  this
  article,  or  determines  to  revoke  such  a license granted by it or a
  franchise pursuant to  sections  two  hundred  twelve  and  two  hundred
  forty-four  of  this article, the commission shall give to the applicant
  or licensee notice of  a  time  and  place  for  a  hearing  before  the
  commission,  at  which the commission will hear such applicant, licensee
  or franchise  corporation  in  reference  thereto.  The  commission  may
  continue  such  hearing  from  time  to  time for the convenience of all
  parties. Any of the parties affected by such hearing may be  represented
  by  counsel,  and  the  commission  may  be  represented by the attorney
  general or an assistant attorney general. In the conduct of such hearing
  the commission shall not be bound by technical rules  of  evidence,  but
  all  evidence offered before the commission shall be reduced to writing,
  and such evidence together with the exhibits, if any, and  the  findings
  of  the  commission, shall be permanently preserved and shall constitute
  the record of the commission in  such  case.  In  connection  with  such
  hearing,  each  member  of  the  commission  shall  have  the  power  to
  administer oaths and examine  witnesses,  and  may  issue  subpoenas  to
  compel  the attendance of witnesses, and the production of all necessary
  reports, books, papers, documents, correspondence  and  other  evidence.
  The commission may, if occasion shall require, by order, refer to one or
  more of its members, the duty of taking testimony in such matter, and to
  report  thereon  to  the  commission, but no determination shall be made
  therein except by the commission. Within thirty days after such hearing,
  the commission shall make  a  final  determination.  If  the  commission
  determines  that  such  license  shall not be granted, or that a license
  issued by the commission  shall  be  revoked,  or  a  franchise  revoked
  pursuant  to  sections  two hundred twelve and two hundred forty-four of
  this article, the commission shall make an order accordingly, and  shall
  cause  such  order  to be entered on the commission's minutes and a copy
  thereof served on such applicant, licensee or franchised corporation, as
  the case may be.  The action of the commission in refusing  to  grant  a
  license,  or  in revoking a license, or in revoking a franchise pursuant
  to sections two hundred  twelve  and  two  hundred  forty-four  of  this
  article, shall be reviewable in the supreme court in the manner provided
  by the provisions of article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and
  rules.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 246 - Approval of Plans of Corporation.

§  246.  Approval  of  plans  of corporation. The commission shall not
  grant to a corporation hereafter formed  pursuant  to  this  chapter,  a
  license  to  conduct  a  running or steeplechase race meeting within the
  state until such corporation shall have submitted to  the  commission  a
  statement  of  the  location  of  its  proposed  grounds  and racetrack,
  together with a plan of such racetrack,  and  plans  of  all  buildings,
  seating  stands and other structures, in such form as the commission may
  prescribe, and such plans shall have been approved  by  the  commission.
  The   commission  at  the  expense  of  the  applicant  may  order  such
  engineering examination thereof as the commission  may  deem  necessary.
  Alterations  of  buildings,  seating stands or other structures, and the
  erection of  new  or  additional  buildings,  seating  stands  or  other
  structures  on  the  grounds  of any corporation heretofore or hereafter
  formed pursuant to this chapter may be made only with  the  approval  of
  the commission and after examination and inspection of the plans thereof
  and  the  issuance of a permit therefor by such commission. The approval
  of the certificate of incorporation of such  corporation  shall  not  be
  deemed  to  vest  in  it  the  right  to a license to conduct running or
  steeplechase race meetings at such race course or racetrack unless  such
  grounds,  track,  buildings,  seating  stands  and  other structures are
  completed in accordance with the plans approved by the commission.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 247 - Racing Zones.

§  247.  Racing zones. There are hereby created two racing zones to be
  known as the first zone and  the  second  zone.  The  first  zone  shall
  include all of the counties in the first, second, ninth, tenth, eleventh
  and  twelfth  judicial  districts. The second zone shall include all the
  other counties of the  state.  Not  more  than  six  corporations  shall
  hereafter  be  licensed  by the commission or franchised by the state to
  conduct a race course or race meeting for running races or steeplechases
  at which pari-mutuel betting shall be authorized within the first  zone,
  and  not  more  than  three  of  such corporations shall hereafter be so
  licensed within the second zone.  The  commission  shall  not  hereafter
  approve  the  incorporation  of such a corporation for conducting a race
  course or race meeting within the second zone if  the  location  of  the
  proposed race course of such corporation is within seventy-five miles of
  the race course of another such corporation.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 248 - Racing Season; Allotment of Dates for Racing.

§ 248. Racing season; allotment of dates for racing. In the assignment
  of  dates by the commission to corporations for conducting running races
  or steeplechases no conflict shall be  deemed  to  exist  by  reason  of
  duplication of dates as between race meetings in the first zone and race
  meetings  in the second zone, nor as between race meetings within a zone
  if the race courses at  which  such  meetings  are  held  are  at  least
  thirty-five  miles  apart  in  the  first zone and at least seventy-five
  miles apart in the second zone, except that a minimum of thirty-six days
  of racing shall be assigned exclusively to the second  zone  unless  the
  governor determines that a sufficient emergency exists for reducing such
  number  of  days  of  racing,  in  which  event  the  commission is then
  authorized to assign a lesser number of days of  racing  to  the  second
  zone.   The   commission   may   separately  apportion  to  the  several
  corporations  licensed  or  franchised  to  conduct  running  races   or
  steeplechases  as  many of the racing days for the season, not to exceed
  the maximum number of racing days permitted by law.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 249 - Pari-Mutuel Employees to Be Citizens and Residents.

§  249.  Pari-mutuel  employees to be citizens and residents. At least
  eighty-five per centum of the persons employed  each  day  by  a  racing
  corporation  conducting  a  race  meeting,  to  operate or assist in the
  operation of its pari-mutuel system of betting shall be citizens of  the
  United  States  and  residents of the state of New York for at least two
  years preceding the date of their employment. Each person, prior to  his
  employment  by  a  racing  corporation, shall be required to execute and
  submit to such racing corporation  a  duly  verified  affidavit  setting
  forth  his  qualifications  for employment pursuant to the provisions of
  this section.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 250 - Power of Commission to Impose Penalties.

§  250.  Power  of  commission to impose penalties. The commission, in
  addition to its  power  to  suspend  or  revoke  occupational  licenses,
  licenses to conduct running races and race meetings or steeplechases and
  steeplechase  meetings  and licenses to conduct pari-mutuel betting at a
  race course or race meeting for running races or steeplechases issued by
  the commission, is authorized to impose civil penalties  upon  any  such
  licensee  or franchisee for a violation of any provision of this chapter
  or the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, not exceeding
  the amounts set forth in section one hundred sixteen  of  this  chapter,
  which  penalties  shall  be  paid into the state treasury. Each day upon
  which such violation continues may be considered by the commission as  a
  separate  violation  in  assessing  the  amount  of  civil penalty to be
  imposed. Any penalty so imposed  shall  be  sued  for  by  the  attorney
  general  in  the  name  of  the  people  of the state of New York, if so
  directed by the commission. The amount of the penalty collected  by  the
  commission  or  recovered  in any such action, or paid to the commission
  upon a  compromise  as  hereinafter  provided,  shall  be  paid  by  the
  commission into the state treasury and credited to the general fund. The
  commission,  for  cause shown and in its discretion, may extend the time
  for the payment of such penalty and, by compromise may accept less  than
  the  amount of such penalty as imposed in settlement thereof. The powers
  granted by this section shall not be affected by the circumstances  that
  any  such  license  has  expired by its terms prior to the imposition of
  such penalty.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 253 - Powers of the Fund.

§ 253. Powers of the fund. The fund shall have power:
1. To sue and be sued.
2. To have a seal and to alter the seal at its pleasure.
3. To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs.
4. To acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its corporate
  purposes.
5.  To  appoint  officers,  agents  and  employees, to prescribe their
  qualifications and to fix their compensation.
6. To perform such other acts and engage in such other  activities  as
  may be necessary and proper for exercising its powers.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 255 - Annual Audit.

§  255.  Annual  audit.  The  comptroller  or  his  legally authorized
  representative is authorized to and shall from time to time but at least
  annually examine the accounts and  books  of  the  fund,  including  its
  receipts and disbursements.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 256 - Annual Report.

§ 256. Annual report. The fund shall annually make during the month of
  January a report to the governor setting forth in detail:
1. Its operations and accomplishments during the preceding year; and
2. Its receipts and disbursements during the preceding year.
The  fund  is  directed  to  report  annually,  on  or  before January
  thirty-first, to the governor and the legislature, on the state  of  the
  thoroughbred  breeding  industry  in  this  state.  Such  reports  shall
  include, but not be limited to, the impact of the fund's programs on the
  breeding and racing aspects of the industry; economic factors  affecting
  the  industry  such as employment and employment growth, state and local
  benefits of breeding farms, income and the production of  income  within
  this state, economic comparisons with other states; and data relative to
  mares  and stallions standing in New York to include such information as
  the number in New York, racing quality as measured by  wins  and  stakes
  won  and  placed  and  money  won,  the  number of foals and foal racing
  quality as measured by sales value and number of starts, races and money
  won, the progeny quality, including earnings, and  the  success  of  New
  York-breds nationally.
The  fund is further directed to incorporate into its reports comments
  from spokesmen representing all segments of  the  industry  as  well  as
  recommendations  on  preserving  and enhancing the thoroughbred breeding
  industry in this state.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding › 257 - Actions Against Fund.

§  257.  Actions against fund. Except in an action for wrongful death,
  no action against the fund founded upon  tort  shall  be  commenced  (a)
  prior to the expiration of thirty days from the date on which the notice
  of  claim  upon  which the action is founded, served pursuant to section
  fifty-e of the general municipal law, was presented to a member  of  the
  board  of  directors of the fund or other officer thereof designated for
  such purpose nor (b) more than one year and ninety days after the  cause
  of  action  therefor  shall have accrued. An action against the fund for
  wrongful death shall be commenced in accordance with the notice of claim
  and time limitation provisions of title eleven of article  nine  of  the
  public authorities law.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 302 - Incorporation.

§  302.  Incorporation. Any number of persons, not less than five, may
  become a corporation for the purpose of conducting  harness  horse  race
  meetings  at  which  pari-mutuel betting will be conducted, with all the
  general powers of corporations created under the laws of this state,  by
  making,  signing,  acknowledging  and  filing  a  certificate that shall
  contain the:
1. name of the proposed corporation;
2. objects for which the corporation is to be formed and the  location
  at which it is proposed to conduct its business;
3. amount and description of the capital stock;
4. location of the corporation's principal business office;
5. duration of the corporation;
6.  number of the corporation's directors, not less than five nor more
  than thirteen;
7. names and post office addresses of  the  directors  for  the  first
  year; and
8.  post  office  addresses  of the subscribers and a statement of the
  number of shares of stock that each agrees to take in the corporation.
No certificate of incorporation under this section shall hereafter  be
  filed without the approval of the commission indorsed thereon or annexed
  thereto.
No  corporation  organized  pursuant  to  this  article or operating a
  harness horse race meet pursuant to  the  provisions  of  section  three
  hundred  four of this article, shall have or be given the right or power
  to conduct any harness horse race meet pursuant to this  article  except
  at  the  location  designated in its certificate of incorporation as the
  place at which it was proposed to conduct its business, or at the  place
  or places where it is presently licensed to conduct a harness horse race
  meet  or  meetings  by  the  commission;  provided,  however,  that this
  restriction shall not apply to any such corporation or association whose
  racing plant or the usefulness thereof or of any material part  thereof,
  in  the  discretion  of the commission, shall, for any reason beyond the
  control of such corporation or association, be totally destroyed  or  so
  substantially  interfered  with  or  damaged as to render same unfit for
  continued operation. Pending  the  rebuilding,  or  restoration  of  its
  usefulness  or  the  making of the required repairs to said plant or the
  part thereof so destroyed or damaged, the commission  may  license  such
  corporation or association to conduct its harness horse race meetings at
  any other suitable location.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 303-A - Non-Managing Ownership of Standardbred Horses.

§  303-a.  Non-managing  ownership  of  standardbred  horses.  (a) For
purposes of this section, a managing  owner  shall  mean  a  person  who
through  ownership,  lease  or designation manages all racing activities
for a race horse and  is  personally  responsible  for  all  liabilities
arising therefrom.
(b)  Non-managing  owners. There shall be no restriction on the number
of non-managing owners of a race horse except that  no  horse  shall  be
entered  or  started that is owned by thirty-five or fewer owners unless
all such owners are licensed; in the event that a horse is owned by more
than thirty-five owners, only those individuals having a  three  percent
or  greater  property  interest  in  such  horse shall be required to be
licensed as an owner.
The commission shall adopt rules and regulations  regarding  ownership
of horses not inconsistent with this section.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 304 - Right to Hold Harness Race Meetings and Races.

§  304. Right to hold harness race meetings and races. Any corporation
  formed under the provisions of sections two hundred  twenty-two  through
  seven  hundred  five of this chapter, and any corporation or association
  which shall have conducted harness horse race meetings during two  years
  prior  to  March  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred forty, and any town or
  county fair association or other fair association shall have  the  power
  and  the  right  to hold one or more harness horse race meetings in each
  year and to hold, maintain and conduct harness races at  such  meetings.
  At  such  harness  race  meetings the corporation or association, or the
  owners  of  horses  engaged  in  such  races,  or  others  who  are  not
  participants  in  the  race,  may contribute purses, prizes, premiums or
  stakes to be contested for, but no person  or  persons  other  than  the
  owner or owners of a horse or horses contesting in a race shall have any
  pecuniary  interest in a purse, prize, premium or stake contested for in
  such race, or be entitled to or receive any portion thereof  after  such
  race  is  finished, and the whole of such purse, prize, premium or stake
  shall be allotted in accordance with the terms and  conditions  of  such
  race.  Such meeting shall not be held except during the period extending
  from the first day of  January  to  the  thirty-first  day  of  December
  inclusive  in  each year. In counties having a population of two hundred
  fifty thousand or less, the commission may, however, permit the  holding
  of  one  or  more harness horse race meetings and the conduct of harness
  races at such meetings on a day or days not during such  period  if  the
  commission  is  satisfied  that  a special occasion makes the holding of
  such meetings and the conduct of such races on such day or  days  proper
  or  necessary;  but  in no event shall such meetings or races be held or
  conducted on the twenty-fifth day of December.  Such  power  and  right,
  however,  shall  not include the right to conduct pari-mutuel betting at
  such harness horse race meetings except pursuant to license  granted  by
  the commission pursuant to sections two hundred twenty-two through seven
  hundred five of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 305 - Pari-Mutuel Betting at Harness Races.

§  305.  Pari-mutuel  betting  at  harness  races.  No more than eight
  corporations or associations shall be licensed by the commission in  any
  one  year  to  conduct  a  pari-mutuel  meet  or meets. Said pari-mutuel
  betting  conducted  at  such  meetings  shall  be  under   the   general
  supervision  and  control  of  the  commission  which  shall  make rules
  regulating the conduct of such pari-mutuel betting  in  accordance  with
  the  provisions of sections two hundred twenty-two through seven hundred
  five of this chapter. The department of taxation and finance is  charged
  with  the  financial administration of pari-mutuel betting as prescribed
  in this article and as supplemented by the rules and regulations of  the
  commission.  The department of taxation and finance shall have authority
  to prescribe the forms and the system of accounting to be employed,  and
  through  its  representatives shall at all times have power of access to
  and examination of any equipment relating to such betting.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 307-A - New York-Bred or Wholly Owned Harness Races.

§  307-a.  New  York-bred  or  wholly  owned  harness  races.  (a) Any
association or corporation licensed to conduct harness race meetings  at
which  pari-mutuel  betting  is permitted may, if in its sole discretion
such association or corporation determines that it would be  beneficial,
offer  non-stakes  races  that  are  limited  to New York-bred horses or
horses wholly owned by New York state  residents.  These  races  may  be
written  on  such  terms  and  conditions  as  any other race authorized
pursuant to law or regulation of  the  commission,  notwithstanding  any
preference date requirements.
(b)  For  each  horse  entered  into  a race that is limited to horses
wholly owned by New York  state  residents,  each  owner  shall  provide
documentation that demonstrates that such horse is wholly owned by a New
York  state resident. Leased horses shall not be eligible for such races
unless both the lessor and lessee are New York state residents.  In  the
case   of  a  horse  owned  by  a  corporation,  all  owners,  officers,
shareholders, and directors shall meet the requirements of  a  New  York
state  resident;  in  the  case  of a horse owned by an association, all
owners shall meet the requirements of a New York state resident.
(c) If it is  in  the  opinion  of  such  corporation  or  association
licensed  to  conduct harness race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting
is permitted that  sufficient  competition  cannot  be  had  among  such
restricted class of horses, said race may be eliminated for said day and
a substitute race provided instead.
(d)  The  commission  shall be authorized to promulgate regulations to
effectuate the intent of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 308 - Officials at Harness Horse Race Meetings.

§  308.  Officials  at harness horse race meetings.  1. At all harness
  race  meetings  licensed  by  the  commission  in  accordance  with  the
  provisions of sections two hundred twenty-two through seven hundred five
  of this chapter qualified judges and starters shall be designated by the
  commission.  Such  officials  shall enforce the rules and regulations of
  the  commission  and  shall  render  regular  written  reports  of   the
  activities and conduct of such race meetings to the commission.
2. The licensed racing corporations shall reimburse the commission for
  the  per  diem  cost to the commission to employ one associate judge and
  the starter to serve at harness  race  meetings.  The  commission  shall
  notify each such licensed racing corporation of the per diem cost of the
  associate  judge  and  the  starter at the track of such licensed racing
  corporation within sixty days of the end of each month. Payment  of  the
  reimbursement  required  by this section shall be made to the commission
  by each entity required to make such payments within thirty days of such
  notification by the commission and shall cover all  the  costs  incurred
  during  that  month.  A  penalty  of  five  percent  of payment due, and
  interest at the rate of one percent per month calculated from such  date
  that  payment  is  due  to  the date of the payment of the per diem cost
  shall be payable in case any per diem cost imposed by  this  subdivision
  is  not  paid  when  due.  The  commission  shall  promulgate  rules and
  regulations to ensure the proper reimbursement of such costs.
3. The commission shall pay into the  racing  regulation  account,  as
  defined  in  section  ninety-nine-i  of the state finance law, under the
  joint custody of the comptroller and the commission, the total amount of
  the reimbursements collected pursuant to this section. With the approval
  of the director of the budget, monies used to pay the costs and expenses
  of the operations of the commission shall be paid out of such account on
  the audit and warrant of the  comptroller  on  vouchers,  certified  and
  approved  by  the  director  of the division of the budget or his or her
  duly designated official.
4. Any associate judge and starter whose per diem costs are reimbursed
  by  a  licensed  racing  corporation  shall  remain  employees  of   the
  commission  and  shall  retain  all  the  rights and privileges of their
  current civil  service  jurisdictional  classification  and  status  and
  collective bargaining unit representation.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 310 - Power of the Commission to Impose Fines and Penalties.

§  310.  Power  of  the  commission to impose fines and penalties. The
  commission, in addition to its  power  to  suspend  or  revoke  licenses
  granted  by  the  commission,  is  authorized  and  empowered  to impose
  monetary fines upon any corporation, association or person participating
  in any way in any harness race meet  at  which  pari-mutuel  betting  is
  conducted,  other  than  as  a  patron,  and  whether  licensed  by  the
  commission or not, for a violation of any provision of this  chapter  or
  the  rules promulgated by the commission pursuant thereto, not exceeding
  the amounts set forth in section one hundred sixteen  of  this  chapter.
  The  commission  is  further authorized and empowered to impose monetary
  fines, not exceeding the  amounts  set  forth  in  section  one  hundred
  sixteen  of  this  chapter,  upon  any  such corporation, association or
  person for a violation of any order issued by the commission pursuant to
  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  or  the  rules  promulgated  by  the
  commission  pursuant  thereto,  provided that a copy of such order shall
  have been served, either personally or  by  registered  mail,  upon  the
  corporation,  association or person to whom the same was directed, prior
  to the occurrence of the violation for which such fine is imposed.  Such
  fines  shall  be  paid into the treasury of the state. The action of the
  commission in imposing any monetary fine  shall  be  reviewable  in  the
  supreme court in the manner provided by and subject to the provisions of
  article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules.