California Code of Regulations › Title 4 - Business Regulations › Division 4 - California Horse Racing Board › Article 24 - Intrastate Simulcast Wagering › Section 2058 - Duties of a Racing Association or Fair Offering Simulcast Wagering

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) A
				racing association or fair may simulcast its racing program as the host
				association and/or any other association or fair racing programs as an
				authorized user either by forming its own simulcast organization as defined in
				Rule 2059 of this division or by acting on its own behalf by contracting with
				each individual fair or racing association simulcast facility or by contracting
				with an existing simulcast organization. If the association or fair acts on its
				own behalf, it is responsible for all of the provisions outlined in Rule 2060
				of this division.
(b) A host
				association is responsible for the content and broadcast quality of its
				simulcast and shall use all reasonable effort to present a simulcast which
				offers viewers an exemplary depiction of its racing program, e.g., pre-race
				activities such as the paddock area, pony riders and racehorses on the track,
				the starting gate, the actual race in its entirety and post race activities
				such as the replay of the race, the finish line showing the horses crossing in
				slow motion, any replay where there is an inquiry by the stewards, the winner's
				circle and excerpts of the race. A periodic display of wagering information
				shall be shown, e.g., the odds information, win, place and show pools and the
				probable payouts on different types of wagers on the screen and scanning of the
				tote board on an intermittent basis. The simulcast shall contain continuity
				programming between horse racing events, e.g., display of the paddock and
				walking ring, replays of the previous race, the horses and outriders, odds
				information and overall activity at the track.
(c) Simulcasts must be encrypted using a time
				displacement decoding algorithm encryption system. If new technology is
				available, approval by the Board's Pari-mutuel Operations Committee must be
				obtained before its use by a simulcast facility. Approval shall be requested in
				writing to the Board. The Board shall act to approve the request at its next
				regularly scheduled Pari-mutuel Operations Committee meeting if the request is
				received two weeks before the meeting date.
(d) The content of every simulcast video will
				contain a digital display of the calendar date, time of day, name of the
				racetrack from where it emanates and the number of the race being displayed.
				All replays of races will be so designated on the video image.
(e) Every host association shall make its
				totalizator system available for common pooling of pari-mutuel amounts from
				guest associations with pari-mutuel pools. All wagers made available by a host
				association shall be made available to all simulcast facilities.
(f) If the host association is authorized by
				the Board to simulcast a feature race for wagering use by any California racing
				association, fair or simulcast facility, and is authorized, under Section
				19601(a)(3)
				of the Business and Professions Code, not to combine the wagers made at the
				other association, fair or facility with its own pari-mutuel pools, the
				association shall nevertheless pay the license fee on all amounts wagered on
				the feature race based on the license fee schedule applicable to its race
				meeting.
(g) A facsimile (FAX)
				machine must be available at all times in the totalizator room for ease of
				administration when pools are merged with other simulcasting
				facilities.
1. New section
				  filed 3-23-88 pursuant to a decision by the Governor overruling OAL's
				  disapproval of this section on the basis that the Board's Notice of Proposed
				  Rulemaking was invalidated by intervening statutory amendments (Government Code
				  section
				  11349.5);
				  operative 4-22-88 (Register 88, No. 17). The Horse Racing Board agreed to
				  resolve all other legal issues identified in OAL's disapproval of these
				  sections in a subsequent rulemaking.
2. Amendment of section
				  heading, text and NOTE filed 10-4-93; operative 11-3-93 (Register 93, No.
				  41).
3. Editorial correction of Authority cite (Register 95, No.
				  8).
4. Change without regulatory effect amending subsection (b)
				  filed 12-23-96 pursuant to section
				  100, title 1, California Code of
				  Regulations (Register 96, No. 52).
5. Change without regulatory
				  effect amending section filed 12-6-99 pursuant to section
				  100, title 1, California Code of
				  Regulations (Register 99, No. 50).
Note: Authority cited: Section
					 19420,
					 19440
					 and
					 19590,
					 Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections
					 19460,
					 19480,
					 19601,
					 19602,
					 19605,
					 19605.1,
					 19605.2,
					 19605.3,
					 19605.4,
					 19605.6,
					 19608,
					 19608.1,
					 19608.2
					 and
					 19619.6,
					 Business and Professions Code.