Permits the entering of horses in harness horse racing meetings by corporate officers, directors and executives, and their spouses unless otherwise prohibited by the racing and wagering board.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3697
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 2, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. ADAMS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wager-
ing
AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
relation to the entering of horses in harness horse racing meetings by
corporate officers, directors and executives
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 304 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breed-
2 ing law is amended to read as follows:
3 § 304. Right to hold harness race meetings and races. Any corporation
4 formed under the provisions of sections two hundred twenty-two through
5 seven hundred five of this chapter, and any corporation or association
6 which shall have conducted harness horse race meetings during two years
7 prior to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred forty, and any town or
8 county fair association or other fair association shall have the power
9 and the right to hold one or more harness horse race meetings in each
10 year and to hold, maintain and conduct harness races at such meetings.
11 At such harness race meetings the corporation or association, or the
12 owners of horses engaged in such races, or others who are not partic-
13 ipants in the race, may contribute purses, prizes, premiums or stakes to
14 be contested for, but no person or persons other than the owner or
15 owners of a horse or horses contesting in a race shall have any pecuni-
16 ary interest in a purse, prize, premium or stake contested for in such
17 race, or be entitled to or receive any portion thereof after such race
18 is finished, and the whole of such purse, prize, premium or stake shall
19 be allotted in accordance with the terms and conditions of such race.
20 Such meeting shall not be held except during the period extending from
21 the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December inclusive
22 in each year. In counties having a population of two hundred fifty thou-
23 sand or less, the state racing and wagering board may, however, permit
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the holding of one or more harness horse race meetings and the conduct
2 of harness races at such meetings on a day or days not during such peri-
3 od if the board is satisfied that a special occasion makes the holding
4 of such meetings and the conduct of such races on such day or days prop-
5 er or necessary; but in no event shall such meetings or races be held or
6 conducted on the twenty-fifth day of December. Such power and right,
7 however, shall not include the right to conduct pari-mutuel betting at
8 such harness horse race meetings except pursuant to license granted by
9 the state racing and wagering board pursuant to sections two hundred
10 twenty-two through seven hundred five of this chapter. Notwithstanding
11 any provision of any rule or regulation to the contrary, nothing shall
12 limit the right of any officer, director or executive, or spouse there-
13 of, of any corporation licensed to conduct a harness horse racing meet-
14 ing from entering a horse in which he or she has a beneficial interest
15 in any race conducted at such harness horse racing meeting unless the
16 state racing and wagering board shall determine that any such individual
17 shall not be permitted to exercise such right.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
