Opinion ID: 2112535
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: intrastate simulcasting

Text: In 1987, the Legislature authorized simulcasting of horseracing in Nebraska on an experimental basis. Simulcasting is a procedure under which a racetrack is permitted to accept wagers on races which are simultaneously televised from other Nebraska racetracks, or, as expressed in § 2-1225(6): Simulcast shall mean the telecast of live audio and visual signals conducted in the state for the purpose of parimutuel wagering. The Board's Lincoln track is a simulcast facility, that is, a facility within the state which is authorized to display simulcasts for parimutuel wagering purposes.... See § 2-1225(7). Section 2-1227 provides in pertinent part: (4) Any simulcast between a sending track and receiving track ... shall result in the combination of all wagers placed at the receiving track with the wagers placed at the sending track so as to produce common parimutuel betting pools for the calculation of odds and the determination of payouts from such pools, which payout shall be the same for all winning tickets, irrespective of whether the wager is placed at a sending track or receiving track.