Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 205 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION › Title 205 CMR 3.00 - Harness Horse Racing › Section 3.13 - Licensee: Duties, Obligations, etc

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1) No person
			 younger than 16 years of age shall be employed in or about the track of any
			 association, except as may be permitted by M.G.L. c. 149, § 60.
(2) 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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			 3.00. Every license to hold a harness horse racing
			 meeting is granted upon the condition that licensee therein named shall accept,
			 observe and enforce
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			 3.00.
(3)
			 Each Association licensed by the Commission shall submit to the Commission a
			 complete list of employees ten days after the first racing day. This must
			 contain in addition to the names and addresses of employees, the position each
			 one is to fill or the duties he or she is to perform. All additions named to or
			 changes in the list of employees must be promptly reported to the
			 Commission.
(4) The Commission
			 shall require each Association to obtain from every person employed by them a
			 sworn statement, on a form prescribed by the Commission, setting forth
			 information regarding citizenship, place or places of residence during the past
			 two years and answer to any other questions the Commission may
			 prescribe.
(5) Each Association
			 shall provide and equip a first aid room within its enclosure.
(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 and deposits. Withdrawals from this
			 account shall be only for such purposes and said account shall at all times be
			 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 Associations licensed to conduct harness 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 install and
			 maintain an adequate photo patrol system approved by the Commission.
(11) Each Association shall provide that no
			 person shall be admitted to the stable 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 his or her presence in the stable area shall wear
			 his or her identification badge in view at all times.
(a) Each Association shall provide that each
			 person whose presence in the Paddock Area or Testing Area is permitted by
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			 3.00 shall be required to wear his or her
			 identification badge in plain view at all times while in the Paddock and Test
			 Area.
(b) The Commission will hold
			 the Association in strict accountability for full compliance with the
			 provisions of 205 CMR 3.13(11).