Prohibits the state racing and wagering board from granting a license to any harness horse racetrack located within seventy-five miles of a harness horse racetrack already licensed for the same dates and hours except with the consent of the licensee.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3903--B
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 9, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wager-
ing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the
Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
relation to the location of new harness tracks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 307 of the racing, pari-mutuel
2 wagering and breeding law is amended to read as follows:
3 4. In considering an application for a license under this section the
4 state racing and wagering board may give consideration to the number of
5 licenses already granted and to the location of the tracks previously
6 licensed. No such license shall be granted to any track which has not
7 conducted pari-mutuel harness racing during at least ten calendar years
8 and which is located within ten miles of a state, county or town fair
9 conducting harness racing for the three consecutive years immediately
10 preceding April second, nineteen hundred fifty-three, which license
11 shall be operative during the racing dates of such fair, unless the
12 association, corporation or society conducting such fair shall affirma-
13 tively waive objection to the issuance of such license for dates within
14 such period. No such license shall be granted to any track located with-
15 in the corporate limits of a city of the first class. [No] On and after
16 March thirty-first, two thousand twelve, except in Sullivan county, no
17 such license shall be granted to any harness horse racetrack located
18 within [twenty-five] seventy-five miles of any track already licensed
19 for the same dates and hours except with the consent of the licensee
20 located within such [twenty-five] seventy-five mile area. Nothing
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 contained in this section shall affect the validity of a license issued
2 for a track operating or to be operated in Sullivan county or otherwise
3 operating more than twenty-five miles from another track licensed for
4 the same hours and dates, if granted prior to the effective date of the
5 chapter of the laws of two thousand twelve which amended this subdivi-
6 sion.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, except that if this act
8 shall have become a law on or after March 31, 2012, this act shall take
9 effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and
10 effect on and after March 31, 2012.
