Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Treasury › Michigan Gaming Control Board › Horse Racing General Rules › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section R. 431.1010 - Definitions; G to N

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 1010. As used in these rules:
(a) "Grounds" means the entire premises under
				  the control of an association, including appurtenant parking areas and
				  spectator areas.
(b) "Horse" means
				  an equine belonging to a breed eligible to race under these rules and, when
				  used in this part, designates any equine irrespective of these rules and
				  irrespective of age or sex.
(c) "In
				  harness" means a race in which performances shall be to a sulky.
(d) "Inquiry" means an investigation into the
				  conduct of a race which is initiated and conducted by the stewards before
				  making a race official.
(e)
				  "Intended to be entered" means a horse that has its name put into the draw for
				  a specific race.
(f) "Jockey" means
				  a person licensed by the executive director to ride thoroughbred horses,
				  quarter horses, Appaloosa horses, American paint, or Arabian horses in
				  races.
(g) "Legal entity" means a
				  lawful or legally standing association, corporation, partnership,
				  proprietorship, trust, or individual.
(h) "Lessee" means a legal entity who is
				  licensed by the executive director as a horse owner and whose interest in a
				  horse is a leasehold.
(i)
				  "Licensee" means a legal entity holding a currently valid license to
				  participate in or conduct horse racing in this state.
(j) "Michigan-bred preferred race" means a
				  race where Michigan-bred horses have priority for entry and horses that are not
				  Michigan-bred are allowed to enter only if the race does not fill with
				  Michigan-bred horses.
(k) "Michigan
				  gaming control board" or "MGCB" means the Michigan gaming control board that
				  was created under section 4 of the Michigan Gaming Control and Revenue Act,
				  1996 IL 1, MCL 432.204, and that operates under the direction of the executive
				  director of the Michigan gaming control board, to which Executive
				  Reorganization Order No. 2009-31, MCL 324.99919, transferred all of the
				  authority, powers, duties, functions, records, personnel, property, unexpended
				  balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the office of racing
				  commissioner that previously existed under the act and that was abolished by
				  that executive reorganization order.
(l) "Month" means a calendar month.
(m) "Mutuel entry" means 2 or more horses
				  entered in a race which are coupled as a single betting interest because the
				  horses are owned wholly or in part by the same owners or are trained by the
				  same trainer.
(n) "No contest"
				  means a race that was cancelled by the stewards in the best interest of racing
				  due to an unforeseen event.
(o)
				  "Nomination" means the naming of a horse or, in the event of a futurity, the
				  naming of a foal in utero to a certain race or series of races, eligibility of
				  which is conditioned on the payment of a fee at the time of naming and the
				  payment of subsequent sustaining fees or starting fees.
(p) "Nominator" means the person in whose
				  name a horse is nominated for a sweepstakes, futurity, or produce
				  race.