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2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 311 - Refunds.

§  311.  Refunds.  Moneys  received by the commission pursuant to this
  article may within one year from the receipt thereof be refunded to  the
  party  for whose account the same were received on proof satisfactory to
  the commission that:
1. such moneys were in excess of the amount required by law;
2. the license for which application was made has been refused by  the
  commission;
3.  such  moneys  were received as a fine and the commission has after
  review reduced the amount of such fine; or
4. upon judicial review, a court of competent jurisdiction reduced  or
  remitted the fine imposed.
Such refunds shall, upon approval by the commission and after audit by
  the  comptroller,  be  paid  from  any  moneys  in  the  custody  of the
  department received pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 312 - Special Police Officers.

§ 312. Special police officers. 1. For the purpose of preserving order
  and  preventing  offenses  against  the  laws  prohibiting gambling, the
  officers or directors of any corporation or association created under or
  subject to the provisions of sections  two  hundred  twenty-two  through
  seven hundred five of this chapter are hereby authorized to appoint from
  time  to  time,  special  police  officers,  and  the  same to remove at
  pleasure, who, when appointed, shall be peace  officers  with  the  same
  powers  within and about such grounds as are vested in peace officers as
  set forth in section 2.20 of the criminal procedure law, whose duty  and
  powers, when appointed, shall be to preserve order within and around the
  grounds  and  racetracks  of said corporation or association, to protect
  the property within said grounds, to eject or  arrest  all  persons  who
  shall   be   improperly  within  the  grounds  of  such  corporation  or
  association or who shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, or  who  shall
  neglect  or refuse to pay the fees or to observe the rules prescribed by
  said corporation or association; and it shall be  the  further  duty  of
  said  police  officers,  when appointed to prevent all violations of law
  with reference to pool-selling, bookmaking, and other gambling,  and  to
  arrest any and all persons violating such provisions, and to convey such
  person  or  persons  so  arrested, with a statement of the cause of such
  arrest, before a court having jurisdiction of such offense, to be  dealt
  with  according  to  the  law.  The  appointment  of  police officers in
  pursuance of this section shall not be deemed to supersede in  any  wise
  on  the  grounds  and  racetrack  of such corporation or association the
  authority of peace officers  or  police  officers  of  the  jurisdiction
  within which such grounds and racetrack are located.
2.  Any  appointment  of  a  special police officer under this section
  shall be made only with the approval of the commission. Application  for
  such  approval  shall  be  in  such  form  as  may  be prescribed by the
  commission and shall contain  such  other  information  or  material  or
  evidence  as  the  commission shall require. In acting on an application
  for  such  approval  the  commission  shall  consider  the   background,
  experience,  integrity, and competence of the candidate for appointment,
  the public interest, convenience  or  necessity  and  the  interests  of
  harness  racing generally.  The commission in its discretion may set the
  term of any such appointment, terminate any existing appointment at  any
  time and prescribe conditions and rules for the conduct of such office.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 313 - Place and Manner of Conducting Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§  313.  Place  and  manner  of  conducting  pari-mutuel  betting. Any
  corporation or association licensed to conduct pari-mutuel betting at  a
  harness race meeting shall provide a place or places within race meeting
  grounds   or   enclosure  at  which  such  licensee  shall  conduct  the
  pari-mutuel system of betting by  its  patrons  on  the  result  of  the
  harness  horse  races  at such meetings. Such licensee shall cause to be
  erected a sign or board upon which shall be  displayed  the  approximate
  straight  odds  on each horse in any race; the total amount wagered upon
  each horse in each pool;  the  value  of  a  two-dollar  winning  mutuel
  ticket,  straight,  place or show on the first three horses in any race;
  the elapsed time of the race; the value of a  two-dollar  winning  daily
  double ticket, if a daily double be conducted, and any other information
  that  the  commission may deem necessary for the guidance of the general
  public. All machines and equipment used for pari-mutuel betting  or  for
  the  display  of  the  foregoing  information  must  be  approved by the
  commission and the department of taxation and finance before being used,
  but neither the commission nor the department of  taxation  and  finance
  shall  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 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 314 - Construction With Other Laws.

§  314.  Construction  with  other  laws.  1.  Nothing in sections two
  hundred twenty-two through seven hundred five of this chapter  shall  be
  construed  to  preclude  the  United  States  Trotting  Association from
  independently licensing or disciplining any of its members or performing
  any function heretofore performed by that organization relative  to  its
  membership in the state of New York.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special statute of
  this  state  or of any local law or ordinance of any municipality within
  the state, whether such provision or provisions be penal in character or
  otherwise, the provisions of sections  two  hundred  twenty-two  through
  seven  hundred  five  of  this  chapter  and  the rules, regulations and
  requirements of the commission relating to the time when and place where
  or manner in which the harness races shall be conducted  in  this  state
  and  the  control of the grounds and structures erected or to be erected
  thereon upon and at which such racing is conducted  and  the  activities
  conducted thereat and thereon in connection with any trial or contest of
  speed  or  power  of  endurance of harness horses shall be construed and
  deemed to be exclusive of and shall supersede  any  provisions  of  such
  other  general  or  special  statute, local law or ordinance in any wise
  relating thereto, insofar as the same affect or relate  to  trotting  or
  harness  racing,  nor  shall  the  provisions  of  article  two  hundred
  twenty-five of the penal law be deemed to apply to  pari-mutuel  betting
  conducted  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 › 315 - Bond Required of Corporation or Association Conducting Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§   315.  Bond  required  of  corporation  or  association  conducting
  pari-mutuel betting. Every corporation or association  licensed  by  the
  commission  to  conduct harness horse race meetings at which pari-mutuel
  betting shall be permitted, annually and before the opening of any  race
  meeting shall execute and file with the state comptroller a bond to this
  state in a penalty to be fixed by the department of taxation and finance
  not exceeding two hundred fifty thousand dollars, with sureties approved
  by  the  attorney  general,  that it will keep its books and records and
  make reports as required by  sections  two  hundred  twenty-two  through
  seven  hundred  five  of 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
  of  the  provisions  of  sections  two  hundred twenty-two through seven
  hundred five  of  this  chapter  and  with  the  rules  and  regulations
  prescribed by the commission and the department of taxation and finance.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 316 - Books and Records of Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§ 316. Books and records of pari-mutuel betting.  Every corporation or
  association conducting a harness horse race meeting at which pari-mutuel
  betting  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  state  tax
  commission   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 this state  are  being  paid  by
  such licensed corporation or association.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 317 - Filing of Certain Agreements With the Commission.

§  317.  Filing  of  certain  agreements  with  the  commission. Every
  association or corporation licensed to conduct harness race meetings  at
  which  pari-mutuel  betting  is  permitted shall promptly after entering
  into any lease, agreement concerning any  concession,  labor  management
  relations,  the  hiring  of designated classes of officers, employees or
  contractors specified by the commission  or  any  such  other  contract,
  agreement  or  arrangement  as  the  commission  may  from  time to time
  prescribe, file with the commission a  true  and  correct  copy,  or  an
  accurate summary, if oral, thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 320 - Revocation of License.

§  320.  Revocation of license. The commission may revoke or suspend a
  license for the conduct of harness race meetings  at  which  pari-mutuel
  betting is conducted:
a.  For  any cause that would permit or require its refusal to issue a
  license, or
b. If it shall determine that: the corporation or association to which
  such license shall have been issued, or its officers or directors,  fail
  to  conduct  racing  at  its track, including pari-mutuel betting on the
  races thereat, in accordance with  the  terms  and  conditions  of  such
  license,  the  rules  of the commission or of the department of taxation
  and finance, or  the  provisions  of  sections  two  hundred  twenty-two
  through  seven  hundred  five of this chapter, or if such corporation or
  association 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  sections  two  hundred twenty-two through seven hundred five of this
  chapter or of the penal law.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 321 - Hearing of Refusal or Revocation of License.

§  321. Hearing of refusal or revocation of license. If the commission
  refuses to grant a  license  applied  for  under  sections  two  hundred
  twenty-two  through  seven  hundred  five of this chapter, or revokes or
  suspends such a license granted by it, or imposes a monetary fine upon a
  participant in harness racing the applicant or licensee or  party  fined
  may  demand, within ten days after notice of such act of the commission,
  a hearing before the commission and the  commission  shall  give  prompt
  notice of a time and place for such hearing at which the commission will
  hear  such  applicant  or  licensee or party fined in reference thereto.
  Pending  such  hearing  and  final  determination,  the  action  of  the
  commission  in  refusing to grant or in revoking or suspending a license
  or in imposing a monetary fine shall remain in full  force  and  effect.
  The  commission  may  continue  such  hearing  from time to time for the
  convenience of any of the parties. Any of the parties affected  by  such
  hearing  may  be  represented  by  counsel,  and  the  commission may be
  represented by the attorney general, a deputy attorney  general  or  its
  counsel.  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  attendance  of  witnesses,
  and  the production of all material and relevant 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 or
  officers,  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 the conclusion of
  such hearing, the commission  shall  make  a  final  order  in  writing,
  setting  forth the reasons for the action taken by it and a copy thereof
  shall be served on such applicant or licensee or  party  fined,  as  the
  case may be. The action of the commission in refusing to grant a license
  or  in  revoking  or suspending a license or in imposing a monetary fine
  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 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 322 - Approval of Plans of Corporation or Association.

§ 322. Approval of plans of corporation or association. The commission
  shall  not  grant  to  a  corporation  or  association  hereafter formed
  pursuant to sections two hundred twenty-two through seven  hundred  five
  of  this  chapter,  a license to conduct a harness race meeting at which
  pari-mutuel betting  may  be  conducted  within  the  state  until  such
  corporation  or  association  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 in writing by the
  commission. Such plans shall show that its paddock and  barn  areas  can
  accommodate  and  serve  the  needs  of  horses  and horse trainers that
  participate  in  live  racing   at   such   facility.   Alterations   or
  discontinuance   of   existing   buildings,  seating  stands  and  other
  structures, and the erection of new  or  additional  buildings,  seating
  stands  or  other  structures  may  be  made only with the prior written
  approval of the commission and after examination and inspection  of  the
  plans  thereof  and the issuance of a permit therefor by the commission.
  The  commission  at  the  expense  of  the  applicant  may  order   such
  engineering  examination  thereof  as the commission may deem necessary.
  The approval of the certificate of incorporation of such corporation  or
  association  shall not be deemed to vest in it the right to a license to
  conduct harness race meetings at such race course  or  racetrack  unless
  such  grounds,  track,  buildings,  seating  stands and other structures
  shall be  completed  in  accordance  with  the  plans  approved  by  the
  commission.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 324 - Free or Reduced Fee Passes, Cards or Badges.

§  324.  Free or reduced fee passes, cards or badges. A corporation or
  association licensed to conduct pari-mutuel  betting  on  harness  horse
  races run at 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  or  association
  conducting  the  race  meeting,  members, officers, and employees of the
  commission, members of harness racing associations 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,   drivers,
  concessionaires, spouses, domestic  partners  and  children  of  owners,
  trainers  and  drivers,  other persons whose actual duties require their
  presence at such  racetrack,  and  any  other  person  or  guest  deemed
  appropriate  by  such  corporation  or association. 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   or
  association  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 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 325 - County, Town and Agricultural Fairs and Harness Race Meetings Not Licensed to Conduct Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§  325.  County, town and agricultural fairs and harness race meetings
  not licensed to conduct pari-mutuel betting.    Pari-mutuel  betting  on
  harness  races  at  any  county,  town,  agricultural or other fair held
  within the state, shall not be authorized and no lottery,  pool-selling,
  bookmaking,  or  any  other  kind  of gambling upon the result of races,
  heats or contests of speed of harness horses allowed at such fair or  at
  any  harness  race meeting conducted in the state, except such as may be
  licensed to operate pari-mutuel betting pursuant to  the  provisions  of
  sections  two  hundred  twenty-two  through  seven  hundred five of this
  chapter which said form of betting as herein  provided  shall  alone  be
  legalized and allowed.
Every  corporation,  society  or association conducting racing without
  license for pari-mutuel betting shall cause to be  posted  conspicuously
  upon  the  grounds whereon such races or racing is held, printed notices
  or placards in legible type to the effect that all  disorderly  conduct,
  pool-selling,  bookmaking  or any other kind of gambling upon the result
  of heats or races or contests of speed of harness horses is prohibited.
In the event that  the  officers  or  directors  of  any  corporation,
  association  or  society  conducting  a  harness  race  meeting  without
  pari-mutuel betting, including the officers  and  directors  of  county,
  town  and  agricultural fairs shall comply with the foregoing provisions
  contained in this section regarding  the  posting  of  notices  then  no
  director   or  officer  thereof  shall  be  personally  liable  for  the
  imposition of any fine or to prosecution, or in any manner  held  liable
  for  any violation, by a person other than himself, of the provisions of
  law relative to bookmaking or other gambling unless knowingly  permitted
  by  him,  nor  shall  the  maintaining of a racetrack nor the holding or
  conducting of harness races  thereon  be  construed  or  held  to  be  a
  violation  of any of the provisions of any general or special law, penal
  or otherwise.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 326 - Employees at Harness Race Meetings.

§  326.  Employees at harness race meetings.  At least eighty-five per
  centum of the persons employed each day in the operation and conduct  of
  pari-mutuel  betting at harness race meets licensed pursuant to sections
  two hundred twenty-two through seven hundred five of this chapter  shall
  be  citizens of the United States of America and residents of this state
  for at least two years immediately prior to  the  commencement  of  such
  employment.  Each  person,  prior to his employment in the operation and
  conduct of pari-mutuel betting at harness race meets, shall be  required
  to  execute  and submit to the corporation or association by which he is
  employed 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 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 328 - Disposition of Unpaid Money Due on Account of Pari-Mutuel Tickets Not Presented.

§  328.  Disposition  of  unpaid  money  due on account of pari-mutuel
  tickets not presented.  The sum held by any corporation  or  association
  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 or association 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  state  tax
  commission  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 state tax
  commission. 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
  state tax commission into the general fund of the state treasury.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 329 - Penalties.

§  329.  Penalties.    1.  The  failure  of  any  witness,  when  duly
  subpoenaed, to attend, give testimony or produce other evidence shall be
  punishable by the supreme court in the same manner as  such  failure  is
  punishable by such court in a case therein pending.
2. Any person who shall fail to file any affidavit as required by this
  article  shall  be guilty of an offense punishable by fine not to exceed
  one thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding  one  year  or  both.
  Except  as  provided  otherwise  by  law, such an offense shall not be a
  crime and the penalty or punishment imposed therefor shall not be deemed
  for any purpose a penal or criminal penalty or punishment, and shall not
  impose any disability upon or affect or  impair  the  credibility  as  a
  witness, or otherwise, of any person convicted thereof.
3.  Any person who shall wilfully make or file any false or fraudulent
  report, statement, affidavit or application required by this article  to
  be  made or filed under oath, or who, having been sworn or affirmed as a
  witness in any hearing as provided for in this article,  shall  wilfully
  give false testimony, shall be guilty of perjury.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 331 - Powers.

§ 331. Powers. The fund shall have power:
1. To sue and be sued.
2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure.
3. To acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its corporate
  purposes.
4. To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs.
5.  To  invest  or to authorize the comptroller to invest on behalf of
  the fund any moneys of the fund pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  ninety-eight-a  of  the state finance law, and all interest earned shall
  be  credited  to  each  account  authorized  by  section  three  hundred
  thirty-two of this chapter pursuant to resolution.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 333 - New York State Exposition Harness Racing.

§  333.  New  York  state  exposition  harness  racing.  The  fund  is
  authorized and empowered to  disburse  annually  as  purses,  prizes  or
  premiums  the  moneys contained in the account designated in paragraph d
  of subdivision one of section three hundred thirty-two of this  article,
  to  owners  of the winners, second, third, fourth and fifth place horses
  of all harness horse stake and overnight races conducted at the New York
  state exposition, or at any  licensed  pari-mutuel  track  in  New  York
  state,  with  a  preference  given to any available licensed pari-mutuel
  track that is five-eighths of a mile long or larger, for  New  York-bred
  colts,  fillies  and  horses,  as  such New York-bred colts, fillies and
  horses comply with conditions for stake and overnight events  set  forth
  in section three hundred thirty-four of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 335 - County and Town Agricultural Society Harness Racing Events.

§ 335. County and town agricultural society harness racing events. The
  fund  is  further  authorized  and directed in each year, in cooperation
  with each town and county agricultural society, qualified therefor under
  rules and regulations established  by  the  fund,  to  provide  for  the
  running  of  New York-bred harness horse racing events, as authorized by
  the fund, and to contribute to the purses,  prizes  and  premiums,  such
  sums  as the fund shall deem advisable, to be disbursed from the account
  designated "county and town agricultural society harness racing events".
  Said events shall be conditioned to admit only standardbred horses which
  meet the standards set forth in subdivision one of section three hundred
  thirty-four of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 3 - Harness Racing and Breeding › 336 - Actions Against Fund.

§  336.  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 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 402 - Incorporation.

§  402.  Incorporation. Any number of persons, not less than five, may
  become a corporation for the purpose of conducting  quarter  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 which shall
  contain:
1. The name of the proposed corporation.
2. The objects for which it is to be formed and the location at  which
  it is proposed to conduct its business.
3. The amount and description of the capital stock.
4. The location of its principal business office.
5. Its duration, which shall not exceed fifty years.
6.  The  number  of  its  directors,  not less than five nor more than
  thirteen.
7. The names and post office addresses of the directors for the  first
  year.
8. The post office addresses of the subscribers and a statement of the
  number of shares of stock which 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
  quarter  horse  race  meet  pursuant  to  the provisions of section four
  hundred four of this chapter, shall have or be given the right or  power
  to  conduct  any quarter 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; 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  board  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  board  may
  license  such  corporation  or  association to conduct its quarter horse
  race meetings at any other suitable location.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 404 - Right to Hold Quarter Horse Race Meetings and Races.

§  404.  Right  to  hold  quarter  horse  race meetings and races. Any
  corporation formed under the provisions of the pari-mutuel revenue  law,
  and  any  corporation  and association that shall have conducted quarter
  horse race meetings during two years  prior  to  the  enactment  of  the
  pari-mutuel  revenue  law,  and  any  town or county fair association or
  other fair association shall have the power and the right to hold one or
  more quarter horse race meetings in each year and to hold, maintain  and
  conduct quarter horse races at such meetings. At such quarter horse 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  power  and  right,
  however,  shall  not include the right to conduct pari-mutuel betting at
  such quarter 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 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 405 - Pari-Mutuel Betting at Quarter Horse Races.

§  405.  Pari-mutuel betting at quarter horse races. No more than five
  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 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 408 - Officials at Quarter Horse Race Meetings.

§  408. Officials at quarter horse race meetings. At all quarter horse
  race meetings licensed by the commission in accordance  with  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.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 410 - Power of Commission to Impose Fines and Penalties.

§  410.  Power  of  commission  to  impose  fines  and  penalties. The
  commission, in addition to its powers  to  suspend  or  revoke  licenses
  granted  by  it,  is  hereby authorized and empowered to impose monetary
  fines upon any corporation, association or person participating  in  any
  way  in  any  quarter  horse  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.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 411 - Refunds.

§  411.  Refunds.  Moneys  received by the commission pursuant to this
  article may within one year from the receipt thereof be refunded to  the
  party  for whose account the same were received on proof satisfactory to
  the commission that:
1. such moneys were in excess of the amount required by law;
2. the license for which application was made has been refused by  the
  commission;
3.  such  moneys  were received as a fine and the commission has after
  review reduced the amount of such fine; or
4. upon judicial review, a court of competent jurisdiction reduced  or
  remitted the fine imposed.
Such refunds shall, upon approval by the commission and after audit by
  the  comptroller,  be  paid  from  any  moneys  in  the  custody  of the
  department of taxation and finance received pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 412 - Special Police Officers.

§ 412. Special police officers. 1. For the purpose of preserving order
  and  preventing  offenses  against  the  laws  prohibiting gambling, the
  officers or directors of any corporation or association created under or
  subject to the provisions of  this  article  are  hereby  authorized  to
  appoint  from  time  to  time,  special police officers, and the same to
  remove at pleasure, who, when appointed, shall be  peace  officers  with
  the  same  powers  within  and  about  such  grounds as are set forth in
  section 2.20 of the criminal procedure law whose duty,  when  appointed,
  shall  be to preserve order within and around the grounds and racetracks
  of said corporation or association, to protect the property within  said
  grounds,  to  eject or arrest all persons who shall be improperly within
  the grounds of such corporation or association or who shall be guilty of
  disorderly conduct, or who shall neglect or refuse to pay the fees or to
  observe the rules prescribed by said corporation or association; and  it
  shall  be  the  further  duty of said police officers, when appointed to
  prevent  all  violations  of  law  with   reference   to   pool-selling,
  bookmaking,  and  other  gambling,  and  to  arrest  any and all persons
  violating such provisions, and to  convey  such  person  or  persons  so
  arrested,  with  a  statement  of  the  cause  of  such arrest, before a
  magistrate having  jurisdiction  of  such  offense,  to  be  dealt  with
  according  to  law.  The  appointment of police officers in pursuance of
  this section shall not be deemed to supersede in any way on the  grounds
  and  racetrack of such corporation or association the authority of peace
  officers or police  officers  of  the  jurisdiction  within  which  such
  grounds and racetrack are located.
2.  Any  appointment  of  a special police officer under this section,
  shall be made only with the approval of the commission. Application  for
  such  approval  shall  be  in  such  form  as  may  be prescribed by the
  commission and shall contain  such  other  information  or  material  or
  evidence  as  the  commission shall require. In acting on an application
  for  such  approval  the  commission  shall  consider  the   background,
  experience,  integrity, and competence of the candidate for appointment,
  the public interest, convenience  or  necessity  and  the  interests  of
  quarter horse racing generally. The commission in its discretion may set
  the  term of any such appointment, terminate any existing appointment at
  any time and prescribe conditions and rules  for  the  conduct  of  such
  office.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 413 - Place and Manner of Conducting Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§  413.  Place  and  manner  of  conducting  pari-mutuel  betting. Any
  corporation or association licensed to conduct pari-mutuel betting at  a
  quarter  horse  race meeting shall provide a place or places within race
  meeting grounds or enclosure at which such licensee  shall  conduct  the
  pari-mutuel  system  of  betting  by  its  patrons  on the result of the
  quarter horse races at such meetings. Such licensee shall  cause  to  be
  erected  a  sign  or board upon which shall be displayed the approximate
  straight odds on each horse in any race; the total amount  wagered  upon
  each  horse  in  each  pool;  the  value  of a two-dollar winning mutuel
  ticket, straight, place or show on the first three horses in  any  race;
  the  elapsed  time  of the race; the value of a two-dollar winning daily
  double ticket, if a daily double is conducted, and any other information
  that the commission may deem necessary for the guidance of  the  general
  public.  All  machines and equipment used for pari-mutuel betting or for
  the display of  the  foregoing  information  must  be  approved  by  the
  commission and the department of taxation and finance before being used,
  but  neither  the  commission nor the department of taxation and finance
  shall 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 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 414 - Construction.

§  414.  Construction.  Nothing  in  sections  two  hundred twenty-two
  through seven hundred  five  of  this  chapter  shall  be  construed  to
  preclude  the  American  Quarter  Horse  Association  from independently
  licensing or disciplining any of its members or performing any  function
  heretofore  performed by that organization relative to its membership in
  this state.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 415 - Bond Required of Corporation or Association Conducting Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§   415.  Bond  required  of  corporation  or  association  conducting
  pari-mutuel betting. Every corporation or association  licensed  by  the
  commission  to  conduct quarter horse race meetings at which pari-mutuel
  betting shall be permitted, annually and before the opening of any  race
  meeting shall execute and file with the state comptroller a bond to this
  state in a penalty to be fixed by the department of taxation and finance
  not exceeding two hundred fifty thousand dollars, with sureties approved
  by  the  attorney  general,  that it will keep its books and records and
  make reports as required by  sections  two  hundred  twenty-two  through
  seven  hundred  five  of this chapter, that it will pay to the state all
  taxes imposed by sections two hundred twenty-two through  seven  hundred
  five  of  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
  of  the  provisions  of  sections  two  hundred twenty-two through seven
  hundred five  of  this  chapter  and  with  the  rules  and  regulations
  prescribed by the commission and the department of taxation and finance.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 416 - Books and Records of Pari-Mutuel Betting.

§  416. Books and records of pari-mutuel betting. Every corporation or
  association conducting a quarter horse race meeting at which pari-mutuel
  betting 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 state tax
  commission  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 this state are being paid by
  such licensed corporation or association.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 417 - Filing of Certain Agreements With Commission.

§ 417. Filing of certain agreements with commission. Every association
  or  corporation licensed to conduct quarter horse race meetings at which
  pari-mutuel betting is permitted shall promptly after entering into  any
  lease,  agreement concerning any concession, labor management relations,
  the hiring of designated classes of officers, employees  or  contractors
  specified  by  the  commission  or any such other contract, agreement or
  arrangement as the commission may from time to time prescribe file  with
  the commission a true and correct copy, or an accurate summary, if oral,
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law › Article 4 - Quarter Horse Racing and Breeding › 419 - Revocation of License.

§  419.  Revocation of license. The commission may revoke or suspend a
  license for  the  conduct  of  quarter  horse  race  meetings  at  which
  pari-mutuel betting is conducted:
1. for any cause that would permit or require the commission to refuse
  to issue a license, or
2. if the commission determines that the corporation or association to
  which  such license has been issued, or its officers or directors, fails
  to conduct racing at its track, including  pari-mutuel  betting  on  the
  races at such track, in accordance with the terms and conditions of such
  license,  the  rules  of the commission or of the department of taxation
  and finance, or  the  provisions  of  sections  two  hundred  twenty-two
  through  seven  hundred  five of this chapter, or if such corporation or
  association 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  sections  two  hundred twenty-two through seven hundred five of this
  chapter or of the penal law.