Bill Text: NY S02714 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-23 - REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING [S02714 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02714-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2714
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 23, 2013
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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    S 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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       S. 2714                             2
    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    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.