Texas Administrative Code › Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION › Part 8 - TEXAS RACING COMMISSION › Chapter 313 - OFFICIALS AND RULES OF HORSE RACING › Subchapter E - TRAINING FACILITIES › Section 313.504 - Operational Requirements

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) The primary business
				  of a training facility must be the training of racehorses. The training facility
				  must be available to provide official workouts on a schedule approved by the
				  executive director, but at least three days per week.
(b) A training facility licensee shall prohibit
				  any wagering at the facility and shall promptly eject any person who is found to be
				  wagering. All training facilities located at licensed racetracks shall have an
				  e-wagering plan approved by the Executive Director, as set out in Sec. 321.603,
				  before the first date of an approved official work schedule.
(c) A training facility licensee shall ensure that
				  veterinary services and facilities are available to the training facility in close
				  enough proximity to permit a response time of one hour or less. The veterinary
				  services and facilities are subject to the approval of the executive
				  director.
(d) A training facility
				  licensee shall comply with the requirements of Sec. 309.117, First Aid and Sec.
				  309.254, Equine Ambulance, during the period where the racetrack association allows
				  occupational licensees to conduct official works or exercise horses on the
				  racetrack.
(e) A training facility
				  licensee shall maintain records regarding the management and operation of the
				  training facility and the records are subject to inspection by the executive
				  director. A training facility licensee shall cooperate fully with and shall promptly
				  provide any information requested by the Executive Director in the regulation of
				  training facilities.
(f) A training
				  facility licensee shall post in a condition book approved by the executive director
				  with any conditions imposed by the racetrack association along with a list of the
				  dates and times that official workouts may be obtained.
(g) A training facility licensee shall comply with
				  all the requirements of this subchapter. Failure to continuously comply with those
				  requirements is grounds for disciplinary action by the executive director, including
				  suspension or revocation of the training facility license.
(h) The facilities and operations of a licensed
				  training facility are subject to inspection and verification by the executive
				  director at any time. If the executive director determines that inappropriate or
				  unsafe conditions exist at the training facility or that the integrity of workouts
				  obtained at the facility are in question, the executive director may immediately
				  notify the pari-mutuel racetracks in this state that workouts obtained at the
				  facility may not be accepted as official workouts. The executive director shall
				  notify the general manager or chief executive officer of the licensed training
				  facility of the executive director findings and specifically describe the corrective
				  action necessary to make the facility's workouts official, to rectify the
				  inappropriate condition, or to make the conditions safe. The training facility may
				  take the necessary corrective action or request a hearing with the Commission on the
				  executive director findings.
(i) A
				  training facility licensee may not, unless otherwise approved by the executive
				  director:
(1) conduct a race at its facility;
				  or
(2) allow its facility to be used for
				  a race.