Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 12 - Taxation › 574-A - The Operation of Thoroughbred Racing except as noted › Section 12-574-A14 - Pari-mutuel operations

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Mutuel
			 manager
. The association shall appoint a mutuel manager who shall be
			 licensed by the commission. The mutuel manager is held responsible for the
			 correctness of all payoff prices posted on the board. Before the mutuel
			 department of any racetrack posts the payoff prices of any pool for any race
			 the mutuel manager shall require each of the calculating sheets of such race to
			 be proved by the calculators, and winners verified. Such proof shall show
			 pay-breaks-commission and added together show they equal total pool. All pay
			 slips are to be checked with calculating sheets as to winners and prices before
			 being issued to cashiers, and all board prices are to be rechecked with the
			 calculator before they are released to the public.
(b)
Posting of rules
. Such rules
			 for pari-mutuel betting as may be specified from time to time by the commission
			 shall be reproduced in legible type and permanently displayed in locations
			 within all betting areas of the premises of racing associations. The daily
			 racing programs sold to the public by racing associations shall contain a
			 statement indicating that such rules are posted in all betting areas.
(c)
Permitted sales
. Within tile
			 enclosure of an association, but not elsewhere, the sale of pari-mutuel tickets
			 under such regulations as the commission shall provide is hereby authorized and
			 permitted.
(d)
Mutuel
			 department
. The mutuel department at every race meeting must be
			 conducted in a strict, dignified and proper manner. All pari-mutuel selling
			 machines, in addition to those on the main betting lines in the clubhouse and
			 grandstand, must be located only in places easily accessible and in plain view
			 of the general public.
(e)
Every employee identified
. Every employee of the mutuel department
			 shall be so designated by number and name, that easy identification may be made
			 by the public. Every employee of the mutuel department must obtain a license
			 from the commission and pay any fee required by the act.
(f)
Sales and exchange of
			 tickets
. No pari-mutuel tickets shall be sold except through regular
			 ticket windows properly designated by sign showing type of tickets sold at each
			 particular window. All ticket sales shall be for cash. Any claim by a person
			 that a wrong ticket has been delivered to him must be made before leaving the
			 mutual ticket window. The prevailing provisions of the act are to be enforced
			 in all matters pertaining to tax, breakage, and track commission on pari-mutuel
			 wagering. The method and manner of selling pari-mutuel tickets shall be
			 approved by the commission. The commission's approval shall include the number
			 of windows, the distribution of windows, and the manner and denominations in
			 which parimutuel tickets shall be sold.
(g)
Presentation for payment
.
			 Payment of winning pari-mutuel tickets shall be made only upon presentation and
			 surrender of such tickets. No claims shall be allowed for lost or destroyed
			 winning tickets.
(h)
Presentation deadline
. All winning pari-mutuel tickets must be
			 presented for payment before one year from the date of close of the meeting
			 when said tickets were purchased, and failure to present any such ticket within
			 the prescribed period of time shall constitute a wader of the right to
			 participate in the award or dividend. All monies not redeemed by the failure of
			 presenting winning pari-mutuel tickets within this deadline shall revert to the
			 state, pursuant to the act. An association shall print in its daily program an
			 address to which all holders of unclaimed tickets may forward their tickets to
			 the association for payment during the period of time that the association is
			 not conducting a meet up until the expiration of the time limit for presenting
			 claims.
(i)
Mutilated
			 tickets
. Mutilated pari-mutuel tickets or those whose validity is
			 questioned shall be submitted to the commission, or its designated staff
			 representative, for inspection and the ruling of said commission, or
			 represented, shall be final and conclusive.
(j)
Notification of entries
. The
			 manager of the parimutuel department shall be properly and timely advised by
			 the racing secretary prior to the beginning of the wagering on each race of the
			 entries that will compete in the race.
(k)
Payments; minimum payments
.
			 Payments due on all wagers shall be made in conformity with the
			 well-established practice of the pari-mutuel system. The practice is to work in
			 dollars and not in number of tickets. The "break" permitted by law is deducted
			 in all of the calculations arriving at the payoff prizes; i.e., the odd cents
			 (c/) of any multiple of ten (10) cents (c/) of winnings per dollar wagered are
			 deducted and retained by the licensee, half of which is to be remitted to the
			 state. The minimum pari-mutuel payoff by any association conducting parimutuel
			 wagering shall be $2.10 on each winning $2.00 wager. In the event a minus
			 occurs in either the win, place, or show pool, the expense of said minus pool
			 shall be borne by the association and the state shall receive its share
			 including half the breaks of the remaining pool.
(l)
Minors barred
. No
			 association shall permit any minor to purchase or cash pari-mutuel tickets, nor
			 shall any minor be permitted at a mutuel window at any time.
(m)
Pari-mutuel employees
			 prohibition
. No employee of the pari-mutuel department of an association
			 shall be permitted to wager at the mutuel windows of an association at which he
			 is employed. However, pari-mutuel employees shall be responsible for tickets
			 punched out in error. In such instances, the pari-mutuel employee shall pay for
			 such tickets punched out in error and shall be the owner thereof. Any
			 pari-mutuel employee who continuously punches out tickets in error may be
			 subject to dismissal.
(n)
When sellers' windows open
. Mutuel sellers' windows shall open at
			 least thirty (30) minutes before the first race and at least twenty (20)
			 minutes before each other race.
(o)
Selected by numbers
. Selections are to be made by program numbers
			 and not necessarily by post position numbers. Large numbers appearing on the
			 tickets are program numbers of the horses.
(p)
Sales not completed
. No
			 association shall be responsible for ticket sales not completed when the
			 machines are locked.
(q)
Hold
			 tickets
. Tickets should be retained until the results have been declared
			 official.
(r)
Cashiers'
			 windows
. Mutuel cashiers' windows shall open as soon as possible after
			 the official notice has been posted. After the last race of a program mutuel
			 cashiers' windows shall remain open until all patrons in line have been
			 afforded the opportunity to cash in their winning tickets.
(v)
Win-place-show pool
			 requirement
. At horse tracks, in all races, except sweepstakes, with
			 five (5) or more separate entries which start, racing associations shall
			 provide win, place and show pools. In all races with four (4) separate entries
			 which start, they shall provide win and place pools only. In races of three (3)
			 or two (2) separate entries which start, they shall provide a win pool only;
			 and parimutuel tickets shall be sold accordingly; provided, however, that in
			 sweepstakes with less than four (4) separate entries which start, racing
			 associations may, at their option, provide that there shall be no betting; and
			 in such cases an additional race with betting shall be added to the program.
(w)
Failure of starting
			 gate
.
(1) Every horse shall be
			 considered a starter when the stall gates open on the signal of the
			 starter.
(2) If it be determined by
			 the stewards that a horse has been prevented from racing because of the failure
			 of the stall door of the starting gate to open, the money bet on that horse
			 shall be refunded; except that when the horse is part of an entry or the
			 "field," there shall be no refund, if the entry of the "field," as the case may
			 be, has at least one actual starter.
(3) In any race, if less than five (5) horses
			 in different interests leave the stalls, the whole amount wagered in the show
			 pools shall be promptly refunded.
(4) In any race, if less than four (4) horses
			 in different interests leave the stalls, the whole amount wagered in the place
			 and show pool and in quinella, exacta, trifecta, and superfecta pools, if there
			 be any, shall be promptly refunded.
(5) In any race, if less than two (2) horses
			 leave the stalls, the whole amount wagered in the win, place and show pool, and
			 in quinella, exacts, trifecta, and superfecta pools, if there be any, shall be
			 promptly refunded.