Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 205 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION › Title 205 CMR 4.00 - Rules of Horse Racing › Section 4.20 - Licensee's Duties, Obligations, etc

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1)
			 Before entering upon the discharge of their duties the following officials
			 employed by the Association shall be licensed by the Commission; association
			 stewards, racing secretaries, handicappers, starters, placing judges,
			 timers/clockers, racing veterinarians, outriders, patrol judges, paddock
			 judges, horse identifiers, clerks of scales, assistant starters, and such other
			 persons as the Commission may designate from time to time because of their
			 importance in the actual conduct of racing.
(2) No person younger than 16 years old shall
			 be employed in or about the track of any association, except as may be
			 permitted by M.G.L. c. 149, § 60.
(3) It shall be the duty of each and every
			 licensee of the Commission and the officers, officials, and employees of said
			 licensee to observe and enforce
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			 4.00. Any and all of
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			 4.00 may be amended, altered, repealed or supplemented
			 by new and additional rules and regulations, at the discretion of the
			 Commission. Every license to hold a race meeting is granted upon the condition
			 that the licensee therein named shall accept, observe and enforce
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			 4.00.
(4)
			 Each Association shall provide and equip a first aid room within its
			 enclosure.
(5) Distance poles of
			 all associations licensed by the Commission shall be standard color
			 designations that are, namely:
¼ Poles Red and White
1/8 Poles Green and White
1/16 Poles Black and White
(6) Each Association running a racing meeting
			 shall keep a separate bank account to be known as the "Horsemen's Account" with
			 at all times sufficient funds in such account to cover all monies due horsemen
			 in regard to purses, stakes, rewards, claims and deposits. Withdrawals from
			 this account shall be only for such purposes and said account shall at all
			 times are subject to audit by the Commission.
(7) Members of the Commission and its
			 representatives shall have the right to full and complete entry to any and all
			 points of the grounds of the Association licensed to conduct horse racing in
			 Massachusetts.
(8) Each Association
			 conducting racing shall before publishing submit to the Commission, the
			 conditions for all races it proposes to hold, together with the stake, purse or
			 reward, all of which shall be subject to the approval of the
			 Commission.
(9) Each Association
			 shall install at the finish line at their track, and shall adequately maintain,
			 two photo finish cameras, to be approved by the Commission, to automatically
			 photograph the finish of races. The official photographer shall furnish
			 promptly to the Commission a print of every photo finish.
(10) Each Association shall provide that no
			 person shall be admitted to the stable area and test area unless he or she is
			 wearing an identification badge issued to him or her by the Commission. Each
			 person whose duties or occupation requires their presence in the stable area
			 and test area shall wear his or her identification badge affixed to the outer
			 clothing or otherwise, readily visible in plain view at all times, while in the
			 stable area and other restricted areas. The Commission will hold the
			 Association to strict accountability for full compliance with the provisions of
			 205 CMR 4.20(10).
(11) Any licensed
			 person who allows another to use his or her license identification card or
			 badge or any person who used the license identification card or badge of
			 another person for the purpose of transferring any of the benefits pertaining
			 thereto may be suspended, assessed a forfeiture, or both.
(12) No Association shall permit bets to be
			 made on the grounds on any race run outside said grounds without permission of
			 the Commission.
(13) No gambling
			 device, other than permitted by law, shall be permitted on the grounds. Petty
			 games of chance are prohibited.
(14) The Association shall choose the only
			 attendants who will be permitted within the limits of
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			 4.00, to:
(a) assist
			 a jockey after weighing out and until he or she leaves the paddock;
			 and
(b) assist a jockey in weighing
			 in and until he or she arrives at the jockey room.
The Association shall pay such attendants for their services
				from an assessment collected from the jockeys. A system of rotation of
				attendants shall be maintained.