Relates to compensation for directors of the regional off-track betting corporation; requires off-track betting corporations located within Genesee County to report on actual use and implementation of the approved marketing promotion plan from the previous year, which shall include the name and address of each person receiving any promotional item or thing of value in excess of fifty dollars.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6612
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 1, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 and
the tax law, in relation to compensation for directors of the regional
off-track betting corporation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs d and e of subdivision 10 of section 502 of the
2 racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as added by chapter 462
3 of the laws of 2000, are amended to read as follows:
4 d. In addition, the directors shall be reimbursed for their actual and
5 necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties
6 upon presentation of a form, sworn under penalty of perjury, certifying
7 that such expenses were actually incurred.
8 e. No director shall be permitted to receive any compensation in any
9 form whatsoever unless expressly provided for herein.
10 f. Any expenses incurred by a director in excess of those authorized
11 by paragraph d of this subdivision shall be the responsibility of the
12 appointing political subdivision, payable on vouchers certified or
13 approved by the chief fiscal officer of such political subdivision as is
14 provided by law. Directors shall swear under penalty of perjury that
15 such expenses were incurred prior to certification or approval by the
16 appointing political subdivision.
17 § 2. Section 1617-a of the tax law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
18 sion l to read as follows:
19 l. Subject to gaming commission rules and regulations, any regional
20 off-track betting corporation which is also a video lottery gaming agent
21 for a facility located within Genesee county, shall submit a marketing
22 and promotion plan for the video lottery gaming facility. Each annual
23 marketing plan shall be submitted to the commission for review and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 approval through resolution by the board. Thereafter, the video gaming
2 agent shall submit a report to the commission detailing the accounting
3 of the actual use and implementation of the approved marketing promotion
4 plan from the previous year, which shall include the name and address of
5 each person receiving any promotional item or thing of value in excess
6 of fifty dollars. The failure to submit any marketing plan and subse-
7 quent report thereafter to the commission when due shall be a violation
8 of the video lottery gaming agent's license.
9 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
