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Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-6 - Bleeder list

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a)
(1) "Bleeder" means any equine exhibiting
			 exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) manifested by the presence of
			 frank blood appearing from either nostril or the presence of frank blood in the
			 trachea.
(2) "Exercise-induced
			 pulmonary hemorrhage" and "EIPH" mean a commonly recognized condition in race
			 horses that is manifested by bleeding into the lung tissue during or after
			 strenuous exercise. The presence of frank blood can be seen in the trachea by
			 means of endoscopic exam, or by the appearance of blood emanating from the
			 nostrils.
(3) "Furosemide" means a
			 diuretic that is recognized for its benefit in the medical management of the
			 EIPH syndrome in horses.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-6a - Furosemide list

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(a) A horse may be
			 allowed to race after the administration of furosemide if any of the following
			 conditions is met:
(1) After consultation
			 with the horse's trainer or practicing veterinarian, or both, the animal health
			 officer or an assistant animal health officer determines that it would be in
			 the best interest of the horse's health to allow the horse to race with
			 furosemide.
(2) The horse's name
			 appears on the bleeder list from any racing jurisdiction.
(3) The horse has an official bleeder stamp
			 or certificate attached to the registration papers.
(4) The horse is observed to bleed as
			 described in K.A.R. 112-10-6(a).
(5) The past performance lines indicate that
			 the horse has been racing with furosemide.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-7 - Test barn

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(a) Each
			 organization licensee shall provide a test barn suitable for taking test
			 samples from horses. Each test barn shall include:
(1) An office area with at least 100 square
			 feet of floor area that can be locked;
(2) a wash rack that measures at least 12
			 feet by 12 feet;
(3) a minimum of
			 two stalls that measure at least 10 feet by 10 feet, equipped with dutch doors
			 and observation portholes adjacent to the office;
(4) a freezer that measures at least 10 cubic
			 feet;
(5) hot and cold running
			 water; and
(6) a walking ring
			 measuring at least 40 feet by 60 feet adjacent to the office.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-8 - Testing

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(a) The stewards
			 may require any horse entered in a race to submit to a blood test or other
			 pre-race test. No horse shall be eligible to start in a race until the owner or
			 trainer complies with the required test procedure.
(b) A blood, urine, or other sample shall be
			 taken from the winner of each race and from each other horse designated by the
			 stewards.
(c) Each blood, urine,
			 or other sample specimen shall be taken under the supervision of the animal
			 health officer or assistant animal health officer. Each sample shall be taken
			 in the test barn unless approved otherwise by the animal health officer or
			 assistant animal health officer.
(d) After each horse enters the test barn, it
			 shall be cooled out for a minimum of 30 minutes before the sample is taken
			 unless otherwise authorized by the animal health officer or assistant animal
			 health officer.
(e) Each trainer,
			 or authorized representative of the trainer, shall witness and confirm the
			 taking of test samples and shall sign the confirmation card.
(f) A trainer or owner may waive the right to
			 witness the collection of a test sample from a racing animal if the trainer's
			 authorized representative witnessing the collection of the test sample is less
			 than 18 years of age. The trainer shall execute a voluntary and knowing waiver
			 of the right to witness the collection of the test sample before the time of
			 collection. Each trainer waiving the right to witness the collection of a test
			 sample from a racing animal shall be estopped from later claiming any defect in
			 the process of collecting and identifying the test sample.
(g) When any horse has been in the test barn
			 for more that one hour, the assistant animal health officer may take a blood
			 sample in lieu of a urine sample and submit the blood plasma from the sample to
			 the test laboratory for testing.
(h) Each test sample shall remain in the
			 custody of the animal health officer or assistant animal health officer from
			 the time it is secured until it is delivered for shipment to the test
			 laboratory.
(i) No person shall
			 tamper with, adulterate, add to, break the seal of, remove, or otherwise
			 attempt to alter or violate any test sample taken, but preservatives or
			 additives necessary for analysis of the sample may be added by the
			 commission-approved test laboratory.
(j) The test laboratory or the animal health
			 officer and assistant animal health officer may be directed by the commission
			 to retain and preserve test samples for future analysis.
(k) The fact that purse money has been paid
			 before the issuance of a laboratory report shall not be deemed a finding that
			 no prohibited substance has been administered to the horse earning the purse
			 money in violation of these racing regulations.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-9a - Split samples

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(a) The animal
			 health officer or assistant animal health officer shall determine, based upon
			 the written standards of the official test laboratory, in their sole discretion
			 whether there is sufficient quantity of each test sample to divide it into two
			 portions for testing. If sufficient quantity of urine is not available for a
			 split sample, the assistant animal health officer shall collect a blood sample
			 for the purpose of providing a sample for the trainer pursuant to this rule.
(b) If a test sample is divided
			 into two portions for testing, no provision of these racing regulations shall
			 prevent the commission or the executive director from ordering both test sample
			 portions to be delivered to the official test laboratory for initial testing.
(c) When the quantity of the test
			 sample permits the splitting of the sample, each first portion shall be
			 submitted by the commission to the official test laboratory for initial testing
			 for prohibited substances.
(d)
			 When the quantity of the test sample permits and when the trainer or owner
			 files a written request with the racing judges for the testing of a split
			 sample, the commission shall submit the second portion of the test sample to a
			 test laboratory approved by the commission. Each written request for the
			 testing of a split sample shall be filed in the commission office at the
			 racetrack facility within 48 hours after the trainer or owner receives notice
			 of a positive report on a test sample taken from the horse.
(e) Each person who requests testing of the
			 second portion of a sample shall pay all costs for the transportation and
			 testing of the sample.
(f) The
			 freezing, storage and safeguarding of each portion of a test sample shall
			 remain the responsibility of the animal health officer and the assistant animal
			 health officer.
(g) The test
			 results on the second portion of a sample shall not prevent disqualification of
			 the horse. The results of the first test are prima facie evidence that the
			 horse competed with the drug or medication in its system.
(h) No provision of these racing regulations
			 shall create vested procedural rights that may be relied upon by any licensee
			 for the purpose of excluding testing evidence that is competent and probative.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-10 - Bandages

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Only bandages approved by an assistant animal health officer
				shall be used on a horse during a race. Each other leg covering shall be
				removed before the horse enters the saddling paddock.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-11 - Posterior digital neurectomy

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(a) Each person
			 shall not deliver to a race track facility, enter or cause to be entered in any
			 race, sell or offer for sale or act as a bloodstock agent in the sale of a
			 horse that has been "nerved" or has had any nerve removed from its leg except
			 as provided in article 112 of the Kansas administrative regulations.
(b) Any horse that has had a posterior
			 digital neurectomy may be eligible to race if:
(1) An assistant animal health officer finds
			 that the loss of sensation resulting from the posterior digital neurectomy will
			 not endanger the horse or rider;
(2) an assistant animal health officer has
			 approved the presence of the horse at the race track facility;
(3) the horse is registered or eligible and
			 the racing secretary has been notified that the horse has been nerved at the
			 time the horse is admitted to the race track facility or while it is at the
			 race track facility; and
(4) the
			 fact the horse has been nerved is recorded on the horse's eligilility
			 certificate.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-12 - Postmortem examination

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(a) Each racing
			 horse that dies or suffers a breakdown while training or racing at a racetrack
			 facility and is destroyed shall undergo a postmortem examination. Each
			 postmortem examination shall be sufficiently comprehensive to identify the
			 injury or medical condition causing the death and shall be conducted at a time
			 and place approved by the assistant animal health officer.
(b) The assistant animal health officer may
			 require any other horse that dies at a racetrack facility to undergo a
			 postmortem examination.
(c) Each
			 postmortem examination shall be conducted by a licensed veterinarian approved
			 by the animal health officer.
(d)
			 The assistant animal health officer may attend the postmortem examination.
(e) The assistant animal health
			 officer may secure test samples, including tissue and other specimens during
			 the postmortem examination, and, if secured, shall send them to the official
			 test laboratory or a diagnostic laboratory for testing and consultation. When
			 practical, the assistant animal health officer shall secure the test samples
			 for the detection of prohibited substances before the horse is destroyed.
(f) Each owner shall pay the
			 expenses of the practicing veterinarian approved by the animal health officer
			 to conduct the postmortem examination.
(g) Each practicing veterinarian shall file a
			 report detailing each postmortem examination on a form approved by the animal
			 health officer with the assistant animal health officer within 72 hours of the
			 horse's death. Each owner of a horse upon which a postmortem examination is
			 conducted shall receive a copy of the report upon request.
(h) Each owner and trainer shall comply with
			 each provision for postmortem examination contained in these racing regulations
			 as a condition of the owner's and trainer's occupation license.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-13 - Prohibition on possession of drugs, medications, syringes, and needles

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(a) While within
			 any restricted area of a licensed horse racetrack facility, no licensee, except
			 a commission-licensed veterinarian or animal health officer, shall have in that
			 licensee's possession any of the following:
(1) Hypodermic syringes;
(2) hypodermic needles;
(3) any drug, medication, or other substance
			 that can be administered parenterally;
(4) rubber stopper bottles or any similar
			 instruments that can be used for injection; and
(5) any other equipment used for hypodermic
			 injection.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-32 - Assistant animal health officer, greyhound

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(a) Each assistant
			 animal health officer employed by the commission shall be licensed to practice
			 veterinary medicine in the state of Kansas.
(b) No assistant animal health officer shall
			 treat or prescribe medication for any greyhound located at a racetrack facility
			 or registered to race at a racetrack facility except in an emergency. Each
			 assistant animal health officer who treats or prescribes medication for a
			 greyhound in an emergency shall promptly file a complete report of the
			 circumstances and veterinary procedure with the racing judges and the animal
			 health officer.
(c) No kennel
			 owner or trainer shall employ or pay any compensation to an assistant animal
			 health officer, directly or indirectly, while the assistant animal health
			 officer is functioning in that capacity at the racetrack as an employee of the
			 commission.
(d) An assistant
			 animal health officer shall meet the following requirements:
(1) Supervise practicing veterinarians at the
			 racetrack facility and recommend to the racing judges or the commission the
			 discipline to be imposed upon each practicing veterinarian who violates
			 commission regulations;
(2) place
			 any greyhound on the veterinarian's list where it shall remain a minimum of
			 three calendar days when in an assistant animal health officer's discretion the
			 placement is proper;
(3) remove
			 any greyhound from the veterinarian's list when in an assistant animal health
			 officer's discretion the removal is proper. No greyhound shall be entered in a
			 race before its name is removed from the veterinarian's list unless otherwise
			 approved by the animal health officer or assistant animal health officer;
(4) establish a procedure for,
			 supervise the collection of and maintain identification records for urine,
			 blood or other specimens from greyhounds, as designated by an assistant animal
			 health officer, the racing judges or the commission;
(5) supervise the procedure for witnessing,
			 sealing, and delivering each test specimen to the official test laboratory;
(6) report immediately to the
			 animal health officer the name, tattoo number, and reason for death of each
			 greyhound that dies or is euthanized at a racetrack facility;
(7) with the permission of the racing judge,
			 scratch each greyhound determined not sound to race at any time before the
			 greyhound enters the starting box;
(8) treat or euthanize any greyhound that is
			 so seriously injured that an assistant animal health officer believes the
			 action is necessary. Each kennel owner or trainer at a racetrack facility shall
			 execute and deliver a written waiver and consent to an assistant animal health
			 officer before the greyhound is treated or euthanized; and
(9) perform other duties prescribed by the
			 animal health officer, the racing judges or the commission.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-33 - Practicing veterinarians, greyhound

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(a) Each practicing
			 veterinarian at a racetrack facility shall be licensed to practice veterinary
			 medicine in the state of Kansas and shall secure an occupation license in
			 accordance with the Kansas parimutuel racing act and commission regulations.
			 Before an occupation license issues, each practicing veterinarian shall meet
			 with the animal health officer to verify that the practicing veterinarian has
			 reviewed these racing regulations and is informed about existing medication
			 practice.
(b) Each practicing
			 veterinarian at a racetrack facility who treats a greyhound for any contagious
			 or communicable disease shall report the fact immediately in writing to the
			 animal health officer or assistant animal health officers on a form approved by
			 the animal health officer.
(c) No
			 practicing veterinarian who treats a greyhound at a racetrack facility shall
			 wager on the outcome of any race in which the treated greyhound starts.
(d) Each practicing veterinarian
			 shall comply with the rules and standards of the Kansas board of veterinary
			 examiners.
(e) Each drug or
			 medication at a racetrack facility shall be in a container bearing a
			 veterinarian's prescription or in the original container bearing the
			 manufacturer's label with the serial or lot number. Each practicing
			 veterinarian shall use only disposable syringes and needles to medicate
			 greyhounds. No veterinarian shall abandon a drug or medication or equipment for
			 administering the drug or medication. All equipment for administering the drug
			 or medication shall be destroyed before it is discarded. All drugs, medications
			 or equipment shall be disposed of in a manner which is environmentally safe.
(f) Only a veterinarian employed
			 by or licensed by the commission may possess procaine on a racetrack facility.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-34 - Drugs or medication, greyhound

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(a) No individual
			 shall administer any drug or medication to any greyhound entered in a race for
			 24 hours before the race in which the greyhound is to run and continuing until
			 after the race is run.
(b) If the
			 official test laboratory reports a positive test for any drug, its metabolites,
			 or any foreign substance, the animal health officer shall classify the test in
			 accordance with the following classifications:
(1) Class one: drugs and medications that are
			 stimulants, depressants, narcotics, local anesthetics having no recognized
			 therapeutic value or substances that impede testing procedures;
(2) class two: drugs and medications that are
			 therapeutic medications that may affect the outcome of the race, naturally
			 occurring substances that appear in unusual levels or that may interfere with
			 or impede testing procedures; and
(3) class three: drugs and medications that
			 are incidental residues of substances of recognized therapeutic value or
			 recurring substances that have an undetermined effect or that cannot be
			 identified by recognized analytical methods.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-35 - Greyhound testing for prohibited substances; methods; procedures; payment of purse money

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(a) Each racing
			 greyhound entered in a race may be submitted to a urine or other pre-race test.
			 No greyhound shall be eligible to start in a race until the owner or trainer
			 complies with any required test procedure.
(b) The assistant animal health officer or
			 veterinary assistant may take a urine or other test sample under the
			 supervision of the animal health officer or assistant animal health officer
			 from the winner of every race and from any other greyhound designated by the
			 the assistant animal health officer in consultation with the racing judges.
(c) The assistant animal health
			 officer or veterinary assistant shall take each test sample in a collection
			 area or in the paddock area unless otherwise approved by the animal health
			 officer or assistant animal health officer.
(d) Each trainer, kennel owner or authorized
			 representative of the trainer or kennel owner may witness and confirm the
			 taking of each test sample. Each trainer, kennel owner and authorized
			 representative witnessing the collection shall sign the confirmation card.
(e) A trainer or kennel owner may
			 waive the right to witness the collection of a test sample from a racing animal
			 if the trainer's authorized representative witnessing the collection of the
			 test sample is less than 18 years of age. The trainer shall execute a voluntary
			 and knowing waiver of the right to witness the collection of the test sample
			 before collection. Each trainer waiving the right to witness the collection of
			 a test sample from a racing animal shall be estopped from later claiming any
			 defect in the process of collecting and identifying the test sample.
(f) If a urine sample is not obtained within
			 a reasonable time following a race, the assistant animal health officer may
			 take a blood sample from the brachiocephalic vein in lieu of a urine sample and
			 submit the blood plasma from the blood sample to the official test laboratory
			 for testing.
(g) Each test sample
			 shall remain in the custody of the animal health officer or assistant animal
			 health officer from the time it is taken until it is delivered for shipment to
			 the official test laboratory.
(h)
			 No person shall tamper with, adulterate, add to, break the seal of, remove or
			 otherwise attempt to alter or violate any test sample taken.
(i) The commission may direct the official
			 test laboratory or the animal health officer and assistant animal health
			 officer to retain and preserve test samples for future analysis.
(j) The payment of purse money before the
			 issuance of an official test laboratory report shall not constitute a finding
			 that no prohibited substance has been administered in violation of these racing
			 regulations to the greyhound earning the purse money.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-36a - Split samples

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(a) The animal
			 health officer or assistant animal health officer shall determine, based upon
			 the written standards of the official test laboratory, in their sole discretion
			 whether there is sufficient quantity of each test sample to divide it into two
			 portions for testing.
(b) If a
			 test sample is divided into two portions for testing, no provision of these
			 racing regulations shall prevent the commission or the executive director from
			 ordering both test sample portions to be delivered to the official test
			 laboratory for initial testing.
(c) When the quantity of the test sample
			 permits the splitting of the sample, each first portion shall be submitted by
			 the commission to the official test laboratory for initial testing for
			 prohibited substances.
(d) When
			 the quantity of the test sample permits and when the trainer or owner files a
			 written request with the racing judges for the testing of a split sample, the
			 commission shall submit the second portion of the test sample to a test
			 laboratory approved by the commission. Each written request for the testing of
			 a split sample shall be filed in the commission office at the racetrack
			 facility within 48 hours after the trainer or owner receives notice of a
			 positive report on a test sample taken from the greyhound.
(e) Each person who requests testing of the
			 second portion of a sample shall pay all costs for the transportation and
			 testing of the sample.
(f) The
			 freezing, storage and safeguarding of each portion of a test sample shall
			 remain the responsibility of the animal health officer and the assistant animal
			 health officer.
(g) The test
			 results on the second portion of a sample shall not prevent disqualification of
			 the greyhound. The results of the first test are prima facie evidence that the
			 greyhound competed with the drug or medication in its system.
(h) No provision of these racing regulations
			 shall create vested procedural rights that may be relied upon by any licensee
			 for the purpose of excluding testing evidence that is competent and probative.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-37 - Postmortem examination

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(a) An assistant
			 animal health officer may order a postmortem examination for each greyhound
			 that dies at a racetrack facility.
(b) The postmortem examination shall be
			 conducted by a practicing veterinarian employed by the kennel owner or by the
			 School for Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University.
(c) The assistant animal health officer may
			 attend the postmortem examination.
(d) The assistant animal health officer may
			 secure test samples, including tissue and other specimens during the postmortem
			 examination. If secured, the assistant animal health officer shall send the
			 samples to the official test laboratory or a diagnostic laboratory for testing
			 and consultation. When practical, the assistant animal health officer shall
			 secure the test samples for the detection of prohibited substances before the
			 greyhound is euthanized.
(e) Each
			 kennel owner shall pay the expenses of the practicing veterinarian employed by
			 the kennel owner to conduct the postmortem examination.
(f) Each kennel owner and trainer shall
			 comply with each provision for postmortem examination contained in these racing
			 regulations as a condition of the kennel owner's and trainer's license.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-38 - Vaccinations

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(a) Every greyhound
			 at each racing facility shall be periodically vaccinated against each disease
			 that the animal health officer has determined is communicable to other
			 greyhounds at the facility.
(1) The racing
			 secretary shall maintain records of vaccinations of each greyhound housed at
			 the racing facility and shall make these records available to the animal health
			 officer or the animal health officer's designee upon request.
(2) All greyhounds entering the racetrack
			 facility shall be accompanied by proof of current vaccination for canine
			 distemper, adenovirus type 2, parainfluenza, parvovirus (DA 2PP), bordetella
			 bronchiseptica, and rabies. A certificate of vaccination shall be presented to
			 the assistant animal health officer's office by the next race day following
			 arrival of each greyhound.
(3) The
			 record of each vaccination series shall be signed by the licensed veterinarian
			 administering the vaccine and shall include the vaccine's trade name and
			 expiration date.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-1 - Definitions

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As used in regulations concerning security and safety, unless
				the context otherwise requires:
(a)
			 "Ambulance" means any aircraft or motor vehicle, whether privately or publicly
			 owned, that is specially constructed, equipped and intended to be used for the
			 purpose of transporting sick, injured, disabled or otherwise incapacitated
			 human beings.
(b) "Basic course"
			 means a training course for security guards given before they assume their
			 official duties.
(c) "Continuing
			 education" means refresher training given to security guards annually.
(d) "Firearms course" means a
			 training course that includes instruction on the use of deadly force and that
			 is conducted by a person who has completed a firearms instructor's course
			 recognized by the Kansas law enforcement training commission.
(e) "First aid course" means any of the
			 following officially recognized courses: red cross advanced first aid course,
			 emergency medical technician course or emergency medical services first
			 responder course.
(f) "Security
			 guard" means a person whose principal duty is to protect persons or property at
			 a racetrack facility licensed by the commission.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-2 - Minimum requirements for security guard

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(a) Each person who
			 is licensed by the commission as a security guard shall have met the following
			 requirements before licensure:
(1) Be a
			 citizen of the United States or otherwise legally reside in the United States;
(2) complete a comprehensive
			 written application approved by the commission;
(3) submit to a background investigation
			 conducted by the director of security, director of the Kansas bureau of
			 investigation or other person designated by the commission. Each applicant
			 shall execute and verify a personal background disclosure form provided by the
			 commission and fully cooperate in any investigation it may undertake;
(4) undergo a thorough medical
			 assessment conducted by a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery;
(5) demonstrate by the medical
			 assessment that the individual is free from any physical defect that might
			 adversely affect the applicant's performance as a security guard;
(6) undergo a personality stability
			 evaluation conducted by a professional psychologist approved by the commission
			 if the security guard will carry a firearm while on duty;
(7) demonstrate by the evaluation that the
			 individual is free from any emotional or mental condition that might affect the
			 applicant's performance as a security guard;
(8) pass an oral examination approved by the
			 commission's director of security and conducted by the organization licensee's
			 director of security; and
(9)
			 demonstrate by the oral examination that the applicant possesses adequate
			 communication skills to clearly convey information and instructions to the
			 public at a race track in regular and emergency situations.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-4 - Basic course for security guard

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(a) Each security
			 guard applicant shall submit to the commission satisfactory proof, upon a form
			 approved by the commission, that the applicant has successfully completed a
			 basic course that includes at least 40 hours of instruction in the following
			 areas:
(1) Kansas criminal statutes;
(2) Kansas parimutuel racing act,
			 K.S.A. 1987 Supp.
			 74-8801
et seq.
,
			 and amendments to it;
(3) criminal
			 procedure;
(4) constitutional
			 rights;
(5) human behavior;
(6) security operations and
			 procedures;
(7) first aid;
(8) firearms;
(9) defense tactics;
(10) report writing;
(11) court and administrative procedures; and
(12) emergency procedures.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-5 - Continuing education for security guard

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(a) Each security
			 guard's license shall not be renewed unless the licensee furnishes the
			 commission proof that the licensee has successfully completed at least 20 hours
			 of continuing education within the 12 months before the renewal date in the
			 following areas:
(1) Physical protection;
(2) laws of arrest;
(3) constitutional law;
(4) handling of citizen complaints;
(5) firearms training;
(6) fire safety;
(7) evacuation plans; and
(8) first aid.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-6 - Standards of conduct for security guard

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(a) Each security
			 guard who carries a firearm shall comply with the provisions of K.S.A. 1988
			 Supp. 74-5607a and amendments to it or
			 commission security guard training requirements. Each security guard who
			 carries a firearm shall comply with any local ordinances that may apply.
(b) Each security guard shall not:
(1) Use unreasonable force;
(2) obstruct, hinder, interfere or prevent an
			 investigation by the commission or any law enforcement agency; or
(3) be on the backside unless engaged in
			 official duties during an assigned tour of duty or unless authorized by track
			 security to enter.
(Authorized K.S.A. 1988 Supp.
				74-8804; implementing K.S.A. 1988
				Supp. 74-8804,
				74-8816,
				74-8810(e) (2);
				effective, T-112-2-23-89, Feb. 23, 1989; effective June 19, 1989; amended March
				19, 1990.)
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-7 - Security guard and other law enforcement cooperation

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Each security guard shall cooperate fully with federal, state
				and local law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction to enforce the
				criminal laws and regulations at race track facilities. Each security guard
				shall submit a race track incident report for each crime or violation of
				commission regulations suspected, investigated or prevented at a racetrack
				facility to the organization licensee's director of security. The organization
				licensee's director of security shall file two copies of the report with the
				commission, and a copy of incident reports relating to crimes with the
				designated local law enforcement agency within 24 hours of the incident's
				occurrence or discovery of its occurrence.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-8 - Written security and safety procedures manual

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(a) Each
			 organization licensee shall file a written security and safety procedures
			 manual with the commission for approval not later than 120 days before the
			 first day of the race meet that the organization licensee proposes to conduct.
			 Each security and safety procedures manual shall include all information
			 required in K.A.R. 112-3-14 and any additional information required by the
			 commission in article 112 of the Kansas administrative regulations.
(b) Each organization licensee shall maintain
			 a comprehensive security and safety plan for its premises. Each security and
			 safety plan shall be detailed in the written security and safety procedures
			 manual.
(c) Each organization
			 licensee's security and safety procedures manual shall be subject to periodic
			 review and approval as determined by the commission or the commission's
			 director of security.
(d) Each
			 licensee's security and safety procedures manual shall be filed with the
			 commission as confidential security information.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-9 - Physical requirements for premises security

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(a) Each
			 organization licensee shall include in its security and safety procedures
			 manual a detailed description of the physical elements of its security plan,
			 including a schematic floor plan.
(b) Each description shall include the
			 location and type of:
(1) Fencing and barbed
			 wire;
(2) security office;
(3) buildings, gates, doors,
			 locks, hinges, ceilings, skylights, walls, windows, and furnishings;
(4) parking lots, including size;
(5) loading docks or loading zones;
(6) access roads;
(7) landscaping;
(8) exterior lighting;
(9) interior lighting;
(10) main electrical switches, fuses, or
			 circuit breakers;
(11) emergency
			 power system and its service area;
(12) safe or vault, or both, including rating
			 and anchor system;
(13) parimutuel
			 wagering equipment;
(14) utility
			 control points;
(15) attics,
			 basements, crawl spaces, air conditioning and heating ducts, including sizes;
(16) elevators and stairs;
(17) fire protection devices;
(18) alarm systems;
(19) surveillance systems;
(20) roof access; and
(21) trash storage.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-11 - Access to restricted areas

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Each organization licensee shall prevent access to and shall
				remove or cause to be removed from its restricted areas any person who is
				unlicensed or who has not been issued a temporary visitor's pass or whose
				presence in the restricted area is unauthorized. The provisions of this
				regulation shall not prevent a public safety official when on duty or an
				individual authorized by the commission from entering a restricted area.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-12 - Search and seizure

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(a) Each applicant
			 who secures an occupation license shall be deemed to consent, as a condition of
			 the license, to a search without warrant, by the commission's security
			 personnel or by the agents of the Kansas bureau of investigation, of:
(1) The licensee's person while the licensee
			 is within the race track facility; and
(2) the licensee's personal property or work
			 area that is within the race track facility.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-13a - Human controlled substance and alcohol testing; procedure; prohibited levels; penalties; confidentiality

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(a) If directed by
			 a steward, racing judge, the executive director, or a commission employee with
			 law enforcement powers under K.S.A. 1995 Supp.
			 74-8807, and upon reasonable
			 suspicion of intoxication or impairment while actively engaged in employment,
			 an occupation licensee shall submit to a breath or a urine test, or both. No
			 occupation licensee shall have a blood alcohol content of .05 percent or more.
			 No occupation licensee's urine test shall indicate the presence of any
			 controlled substance as defined by K.S.A. 1995 Supp.
			 65-4101.
(b) The stewards or racing judges shall
			 suspend a licensee whose breath test indicates a blood alcohol content of .05
			 percent or more in accordance with the provisions of
			 K.S.A.
			 74-8816(h).
(c) The stewards or racing judges shall
			 suspend a licensee whose urine test indicates the presence of a controlled
			 substance in accordance with the provisions of
			 K.S.A.
			 74-8816(h).
(d) The stewards or racing judges shall
			 suspend a licensee who refuses to submit to a breath or urine test, or both, in
			 accordance with the provisions of
			 K.S.A.
			 74-8816(h).
(e) Suspensions authorized by this regulation
			 shall not be subject to the stay provisions of K.A.R. 112-16-11.
(f) Information elicited in the process of
			 breath or urine testing shall be treated as confidential, except as necessary
			 for any administrative or judicial proceeding.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-14 - Ambulances and first aid station

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(a) Each
			 organization licensee shall provide at least one ambulance on the premises of
			 the horse race track facility. Each ambulance shall be staffed and on duty
			 during horse training periods and the scheduled horse races. Each ambulance
			 shall have a Kansas board of emergency medical services Type I or Type II
			 ambulance permit.
(b) Each
			 organizational licensee shall close the track to horses unless the required
			 ambulance service is present at the race track facility.
(c) Each ambulance shall have ready access to
			 all parts of the track in each horse race run.
(d) For horse race meetings, each
			 organization licensee shall provide a staffed horse ambulance each day horses
			 are on the race track with the capability of:
(1) Being lowered to the ground and having an
			 adequate means of loading a horse that is down, which may include a large piece
			 of matting or belting that the horse can be rolled onto and a power winch
			 capable of pulling the mat and horse into the ambulance;
(2) having large portable screens adequate to
			 shield a horse from public view; and
(3) transporting an injured horse to a
			 designated area for emergency treatment or euthanasia, or to a necropsy stall.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-15 - Fire prevention

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Each organization licensee shall submit plans and
				specifications for fire prevention to the Kansas state fire marshal and any
				required local authorities for approval before commencement of construction,
				remodeling or alteration of any location at a race track facility. Each
				organization licensee shall submit to the commission's director of security
				documentation of fire inspection compliance. Each organization licensee shall
				post in a conspicuous place the fire regulations applicable to the stable area
				or kennel area, or both, the fire regulations applicable to all other locations
				and any other notice required by the Kansas state fire marshal and any local
				authorities.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-16 - Smoking in the shedrow and the kennels

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(a) Smoking shall
			 be prohibited in each shedrow, stall or feed storage area inside a barn.
(b) Smoking shall be prohibited in
			 each kennel building.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-17 - Emergency procedures

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(a) Each
			 organization licensee shall submit a comprehensive emergency procedures and
			 evacuation plan as part of the security and safety procedures manual.
(b) Each emergency procedure and
			 evacuation plan shall describe potential emergencies and the planned response
			 to the emergency situation.
(c)
			 Each organization licensee shall plan and execute a rehearsal of all emergency
			 procedures and responses before the first performance of each race meet each
			 year and at any other time required by the commission's director of security.
			 Each rehearsal shall be approved and observed by the commission's director of
			 security or the director of security's designee.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-18 - Obedience to security guards and commission representatives

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Each licensee and individual at a race track facility shall not
				willfully ignore or refuse to obey or interfere with any order issued by the
				commission, the commission's representatives, the stewards or racing judges,
				any security guard of the facility or any law enforcement officer or other
				public safety official when the order is given in the performance of duty.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-19 - Race track safety standards, horse race meets

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(a) Unless excused
			 by the commission for good cause, each organization licensee shall meet the
			 following race track standards at horse race meets.
(1) Each racing surface shall have inner and
			 outer rails.
(2) Each rail shall:
(A) Be constructed of a material that will
			 bear the impact of a horse without breaking away;
(B) be maintained at a height that measures
			 40" from the top of the cushion to the top of the rail;
(C) be bolted or welded to the rail posts;
			 and
(D) have a smooth surface.
(3) Each rail post upon
			 which inner and outer rails are mounted shall:
(A) Be set in concrete at least 6" below the
			 race track surface and at least 24" deep; and
(B) have a continuous smooth cover over the
			 posts.
(4) Each gate
			 opening in a rail, including the gap, shall:
(A) Have the same appearance as the rest of
			 the rail;
(B) be less than 10 feet
			 in length unless it has a center support;
(C) have a top gate rail that is secured to
			 the top of the rail for which the gate provides an opening;
(D) except for "on" and "off" gates during
			 training, be closed during racing and training; and
(E) if an "on" or "off" gate, be placed at
			 50-feet intervals.
(5)
			 Each starting gate used for morning schooling shall be placed far enough from
			 the "on" and "off" gates so that horses entering and leaving the track will not
			 interfere with or distract horses in schooling or breaking from the gate.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 11 - SECURITY AND SAFETY › Section 112-11-20 - Greyhound racetrack facility safety standards; specifications; prohibition of chemical use on track surface

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(a) Each greyhound
			 racetrack shall have the following:
(1) A
			 minimum width of 20 feet with inside and outside fixed curbs at a specified
			 slope in the outside curb;
(2) a
			 first turn radius of 128 feet, with a second turn radius of 118 feet, and
			 straightaways of 279.6 feet;
(3) a
			 graduated minimum bank of 1 1/2 inches to each 12 inches on each turn;
(4) the 5/16 mile starting box set
			 back in a chute;
(5) a water
			 pumping system providing adequate volume and pressure to uniformly hand water
			 the entire racing surface, as needed. Automatic sprinkling systems may be used
			 to complement, but shall not replace, the hand watering system;
(6) automatic openers with a manual backup
			 for each starting box;
(7) one
			 curtain placed at least 50 feet before the escape and one curtain placed 25
			 feet beyond the escape and placed so as not to distract greyhounds while they
			 are racing;
(8) an inside lure
			 with an extendible arm;
(9) a
			 commission-approved track base that is nonabrasive to a greyhound's feet and
			 that has adequate track drainage and proper resiliency;
(10) unless otherwise approved by the
			 commission in open meeting and upon the commission's determination that this
			 approval would be in the best interest of racing, a closed-fluid winterization
			 system extending from the starting boxes to the entire width and length of the
			 track; and
(11) a video monitoring
			 system with a monitor in the judges' room and trainers' lounge that permits the
			 racing judges and trainers to view the activities in the lockout kennel, the
			 movement of the lead outs and greyhounds from the lockout kennel to the
			 starting boxes, and the activities at the starting boxes.