Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 12 - Taxation › 574-B - The Operation of Harness Racing › Section 12-574-B14 - 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 mutual manager is held responsible for the
			 correctness of all payoff prices posted on the board. Before the mutuel
			 department of any racetrack posts the payout 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 the
			 enclosure of an association, hut 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
			 mutuel 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)
Heat as race
. For the
			 purposes of pari-mutuel wagering, every heat shall be a separate and distinct
			 race.
(h)
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.
(i)
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 waiver 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.
(j)
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
			 representative, shall be final and conclusive.
(k)
Notification of entries
. The
			 manager of the parimutuel department shall be properly and timely advised by
			 the presiding judge prior to the beginning of the wagering on each race of the
			 entries that will compete in the race and any driver changes from those listed
			 in the official program.
(l)
Payments; minimum payments
. Payments due on all wagers shall be
			 made in conformity with the wellestablished 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 (¢) of any multiple of ten (10) cents (¢)
			 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 pari-mutuel 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.
(m)
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.
(n)
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.
(o)
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.
(p)
Selected by numbers
. Selections are to be made by program numbers.
			 Large numbers appearing on the tickets are program numbers of the
			 horses.
(q)
Sales not
			 completed
. No association shall be responsible for ticket sales not
			 completed when the machines are locked.
(r)
Hold tickets
. Tickets should
			 be retained until the results have been declared official.
(s)
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, mutual cashiers' windows shall
			 remain open until all patrons in line have been afforded the opportunity to
			 cash in their winning tickets.
(t)
Denomination of tickets
. Pari-mutuel tickets shall be sold only in
			 denominations approved by the commission.
(u)
Entries
.
(1) When two or more horses run in a race,
			 and are coupled because of common ties, they are called an "entry" and a wager
			 on one of them shall be a wager on all of them.
(2) If two or more horses in a race are
			 coupled on the same mutual ticket, there shall be no refund unless all the
			 horses so coupled are excused before off-time.