Administrative Rules of Montana › Department 8 - COMMERCE › Chapter 8.22 - BOARD OF HORSE RACING › Subchapter 8.22.33 - Corrupt Practices and Penalties › Rule 8.22.3301 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

Current through Register Vol. 13, July 5, 2024
(1) No persons
				shall use profane or obscene language to any racing official or any employee or
				representative of the board.
(2) No
				person shall in any manner or at any time, disturb the peace or interfere with
				the lawful activity of any racing official on the grounds of a race
				meeting.
(3) No person shall
				knowingly or intentionally make and submit or cause to be submitted to any
				racing official any false or intentionally misleading sworn
				statement.
(4) No person shall
				give, offer, or promise, directly or indirectly, either on his own behalf or in
				behalf of another, to anyone, any bribe, gift, or gratuity in any form, for the
				purpose of improperly influencing the result of a race, or which would tend to
				do so.
(5) No racing official or
				his assistant, no owner, trainer, jockey, or agent, and no persons having
				charge or access to accept on his own behalf or on behalf of another, any
				bribe, gift, or gratuity in any form to influence the result of race, or which
				would tend to do so.
(6) No person
				shall enter, or cause to be entered, or start, a horse which he knows or
				believes to be ineligible or disqualified.
(7) No person shall offer or receive money or
				any other benefit for declaring an entry from a race.
(8) No person shall make a bet for the
				account of any jockey except the owner or trainer of the horse the jockey is
				riding and then only on the horse being ridden by said jockey.
(9) No person shall offer to give a jockey
				any money or other benefit in relation to a race unless said person is the
				owner or trainer of the horse ridden in said race by said jockey.
(10) No electrical or mechanical device or
				other appliance designed to increase or decrease the speed of a horse (or that
				would tend to do so) other than the ordinary whip shall be possessed by any one
				or applied by any one to a horse at any time on the grounds of a race meeting,
				during a meeting, whether in a race or otherwise.
(11) No person shall improperly tamper or
				attempt to tamper with any horse in such a way as to affect his speed in a
				race, nor shall he counsel or in any way aid or abet such tampering.
(12) No person shall assume or pay, directly
				or indirectly, a fine imposed upon a jockey.
(13) No owner or trainer shall compensate a
				jockey for the purpose of preventing him from riding in any race.
(14) All fines, forfeitures and suspensions
				shall be enforced by the stewards or by the board. No other racing official
				shall have the right to impose a fine or suspension although any racing
				official may recommend to the stewards that disciplinary action be taken
				against a named person. Each racing official shall report to the stewards any
				observed violation of the rules of racing.
(15) All fines or suspensions imposed by the
				stewards shall be promptly reported in writing to the board.
(16) All fines shall be made payable to the
				board and delivered to the state steward or his duly authorized representative
				within 24 hours after imposition and shall be turned over to the board at the
				end of the race meeting. Failure to pay any fine within the time specified
				shall result in an automatic suspension which shall continue until such time as
				the fine is paid or the ruling imposing the fine is overturned by the board or
				a court of law.
(17) All
				suspensions for a specified period of time shall be considered in calendar or
				racing days. The ruling shall specify the first and last day of the
				suspension.
(18) No racing official
				shall directly or indirectly buy or sell any contract upon any jockey or
				apprentice for himself or another, nor shall he write or solicit horse
				insurance.
(19) No racing official
				shall directly or indirectly wager money or anything of value on the result of
				any race at any licensed race meeting at which he/she presides.
(20) Any trainer, owner or other licensed
				racing person who knowingly harbors or conceals anyone not provided with proper
				credentials or not licensed as required by these rules shall be reported to the
				stewards and subject to disciplinary action.
(21) No person shall make a hand book or a
				foreign book on the grounds of a race meeting.
(22) No person shall solicit for a bet with a
				hand book or a foreign book on the grounds of a race meeting.
(23) No person who is a bookmaker, or who is
				known or reputed to be a bookmaker, or who is a fugitive from justice, or whose
				conduct at a race track in Montana or elsewhere, now or heretofore, has been
				detrimental to the best interests of racing, shall enter or remain upon the
				premises of any licensee conducting a horse racing meet or meeting under the
				jurisdiction of the board, and all such persons shall upon discovery or
				recognition be forthwith ejected from race tracks in the state by licensees in
				this state and/or by the representatives and agents of the board.
(24) Violators of any rule of the board shall
				be subject to ejection from the grounds, fine, suspension or revocation of
				license and/or such other penalty permissible under the authority delegated by
				law to the board, including the suspension of a named horse. The penalties
				provided in this section shall be applicable to every section of these rules
				the same as though it were a part of each and every section of these
				rules.
(25) Any person ejected from
				the grounds of a race meeting or simulcast facility shall be denied admission
				to said grounds or facility until permission for re-entering has been obtained
				from the board.
(26) When a person
				is ruled off or suspended, every horse owned in whole or in part by him or
				under his care, management, training or superintendance shall be ineligible to
				be entered or to start in any race until said horse or horses have been
				reinstated by the termination or recision of the penalty or by transfer of the
				horse or horses through bona fide sale, or by placement of the horse or horses
				in the hands of a licensed trainer approved by the board.
(27) Any person or horse ruled off or
				suspended by any recognized turf authority shall be prohibited from
				participating in racing in Montana according to the terms of the ruling made by
				said recognized turf authority.
Sec.
					 23-4-104,
					 23-4-202, MCA; IMP, Sec.
					 23-4-104,
					 23-4-106,
					 23-4-202,
					 MCA;