Code of Maine Rules › 01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY › 017 - MAINE STATE HARNESS RACING COMMISSION › Chapter 1 - ADMINISTRATION › Section 017-1-1 - Definitions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
As used in these rules, unless the context indicates
				  otherwise, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1.
Added Money Early Closing
				Event
. Added Money Early Closing Event means an event closing in the
				same year in which it is to be contested, all entrance fees received are added
				to the purse.
2.
Age
.
				Age means the age of a horse as reckoned from the first day of January of the
				year of foaling.
3.
Also
				Eligibles
. Also Eligibles means a horse that is not initially scheduled
				to race, but is eligible to race and may race in place of a horse that has been
				scratched.
4.
Amateur
				Driver
. Amateur Driver means a driver who has never accepted any
				valuable consideration by way of or in lieu of compensation for his services as
				a driver.
5.
Appeal
.
				Appeal means a request for the Commission to consider and review any decisions
				or rulings of Judges or Officials of a meeting.
6.
Association
. Association
				means any person or persons, or legalized business entity licensed by the
				Commission to conduct harness racing and or pari-mutuel wagering or both within
				the State of Maine.
7.
Authorized Agent
Authorized Agent means a person who has been
				authorized to act on the behalf of another.
8.
Break
. Break means the act of
				a horse going off-gait.
9.
Breeder
. Breeder means the owner of the dam at the time of
				foaling.
10.
Breeding
				Place
. Breeding Place means the place of the horse's
				conception.
11.
Commission
. Commission means the Maine Harness Racing
				Commission.
12.
Commission
				Chemist
. Commission Chemist means a licensed and qualified chemist
				designated by the Department as the Commission Chemist.
13.
Commission Veterinarian
.
				Commission Veterinarian means the veterinarian designated by the Department to
				perform veterinary services as called for in these rules. The Commission
				Veterinarian must be a veterinary practitioner licensed to practice in the
				State of Maine.
14.
Coupled
				Entry
. Coupled entry means two or more horses starting in a race when
				owned or trained by the same person, or trained in the same stable or by the
				same management, or grouped as part of the mutuel field.
15.
Dash
. Dash means a race
				decided in a single trial.
16.
Declaration
. Declaration means the entering of a particular horse
				to a particular race.
17.
Department
. "Department" means the Department of Agriculture.
				Conservation and Forestry.
18.
Disqualification
. Disqualification means that a horse is
				disqualified from receiving a purse or record for the position in which it
				finished.
19.
Distanced
. Distanced means a horse is more than 25 lengths behind
				the winner.
20.
Double
				Dash
. Double Dash means a race consisting of two separate trials for
				equal purses contested on the same program.
21.
Drug
. Drug means:
A. Articles recognized in the official United
				States Pharmacopeia, the official Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States
				or the National Formulary or any supplement to any of them; and Dimethyl
				Sulfoxide (DMSO) whether applied internally or externally.
B. Articles intended for use in the
				diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or other
				animals; and
C. Articles (other
				than foods) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man
				or other animals; and
D. Articles
				intended for use as a component of any articles specified in paragraphs 1, 2,
				or 3; but does not include devices or their components, parts, or accessories.
The term drug does not include water, in liquid or frozen
				  state, or heat.