California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 9.2 - Satellite Wagering

  • Section 19605.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board may authorize an association licensed to conduct a racing meeting in the northern zone to operate a satellite wagering...
  • Section 19605.1.
    With respect to the northern zone, the board may, with the approval of the Department of Food and Agriculture, also authorize any fair, in the...
  • Section 19605.2.
    With respect to the central and southern zones, the board may, with the approval of the Department of Food and Agriculture, subject to the conditions...
  • Section 19605.25.
    (a) The California Horse Racing Board may approve an additional 15 minisatellite wagering sites in each zone, if all of the following conditions are met:(1) No site...
  • Section 19605.3.
    (a) An organization described in Section 19608.2 has executed an agreement approved by the board with the association conducting a racing meeting and the satellite wagering...
  • Section 19605.35.
    (a) Notwithstanding paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 19605.3, no fee or charge authorized under that paragraph shall be paid by the operator of a...
  • Section 19605.4.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 19605.3, the live audiovisual signal of night harness, quarter horse, Appaloosa, or Arabian races in the central or southern zone may be offered...
  • Section 19605.45.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 19605, 19605.1, 19605.35, or any other provision of this chapter, if the racing association licensed in the year 2002 to conduct thoroughbred race...
  • Section 19605.46.
    Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 19605, and Section 19605.1, the Alameda County Fair may, with the approval of the Department of Food and Agriculture, the...
  • Section 19605.47.
    The Los Angeles County Fair may conduct satellite wagering at an additional location, situated not more than 20 miles from its fairgrounds, with the approval...
  • Section 19605.51.
    Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 19605, and Section 19605.1, any fair that operated a satellite wagering facility on July 1, 2007, may, with the approval...
  • Section 19605.52.
    Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 19605, and Section 19605.1, any fair in Kern or Shasta County may, with the approval of the Department of Food...
  • Section 19605.53.
    (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 19605, and Section 19605.1, in lieu of a satellite wagering facility that could otherwise be authorized by the board to...
  • Section 19605.54.
    Any racetrack in the central zone that conducted racing in 2007 but that has since closed may continue to conduct satellite wagering. If the racetrack...
  • Section 19605.55.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 19605, 19605.1, 19605.35, or any other provision of this chapter, if the Solano County Fair ceases to conduct live horse racing at the...
  • Section 19605.6.
    (a) In addition to satellite wagering facilities authorized pursuant to Sections 19605, 19605.1, and 19605.2, the board, with the approval of the Department of Food and...
  • Section 19605.61.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the live racing or the audiovisual signals of any licensed association or fair in this state are disrupted...
  • Section 19605.7.
    The total percentage deducted from wagers at satellite wagering facilities in the northern zone shall be the same as the deductions for wagers at the...
  • Section 19605.71.
    The total percentage deducted from wagers at satellite wagering facilities in the central and southern zones shall be the same as the percentage deducted from...
  • Section 19605.72.
    (a) In addition to the amounts deducted and distributed pursuant to Section 19605.7, an amount equal to 1.25 percent of the total amount handled on thoroughbred...
  • Section 19605.73.
    (a) Thoroughbred racing associations, fairs, and the organization responsible for contracting with thoroughbred racing associations and fairs with respect to the conduct of racing meetings, may...
  • Section 19605.74.
    For every year that the organization operating the Breeders’ Cup World Championship series chooses to conduct the Breeders’ Cup at a race meeting in California,...
  • Section 19605.75.
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the existence of high caliber thoroughbred racing in California is important to this state’s agricultural economy. The California horse...
  • Section 19605.76.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 19610, a quarter horse racing association may deduct an additional 0.5 percent of the total amount handled in its exotic parimutuel pools. This...
  • Section 19605.77.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 19610, a harness racing association may deduct an additional 1 percent of the total amount handled in conventional parimutuel pools of harness races....
  • Section 19605.78.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 19610 and in addition to the deduction specified in subdivision (b) of Section 19605.75, a fair may deduct an additional 0.5 percent of...
  • Section 19605.79.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event there are at any time uncommitted surplus funds in accounts created pursuant to Sections 19605.73 and...
  • Section 19605.8.
    For thoroughbred meetings, the funds remaining after distribution of the amounts set forth in Sections 19605.7, 19605.71, and 19605.72 shall be distributed 50 percent as...
  • Section 19605.9.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), in the central and southern zones, all of the funds distributed for purses from satellite wagering facilities shall go...
  • Section 19606.
    (a) For harness, quarter horse, Appaloosa, Arabian, mixed breed, and fair meetings, the funds remaining after the distribution of the amounts set forth in Sections 19605.7...
  • Section 19606.1.
    (a) All license fees from satellite wagering that are deposited in the Fair and Exposition Fund shall be deposited in a separate account in the fund...
  • Section 19606.5.
    Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 19641, the state shall receive as additional license fees 50 percent of any redistributable money in a parimutuel pool arising...
  • Section 19606.6.
    Of the total breakage arising in a parimutuel pool which includes wagers at satellite wagering facilities in the central or southern zone, that percentage of...
  • Section 19607.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 19605.8 and 19605.9, when satellite wagering is conducted on thoroughbred races at associations or fairs in the central or southern zone, an amount...
  • Section 19607.1.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 19535, the funds distributed to the organization formed pursuant to Section 19607 shall be used to pay the expenses of the organization and...
  • Section 19607.2.
    Notwithstanding Section 19605.8, when satellite wagering is conducted on thoroughbred races at associations or fairs in the northern zone, an amount not to exceed 2...
  • Section 19607.3.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 19535, the funds distributed to the organization formed pursuant to Section 19607.2 shall be used to pay the expenses of the organization and...
  • Section 19607.4.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amount up to an amount equal to the difference between the maximum deduction authorized pursuant to Sections 19607...
  • Section 19607.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if both a fair and a thoroughbred association are licensed by the board to conduct live racing meetings within...
  • Section 19608.
    An association other than a fair that conducts a horseracing meeting with an average daily handle of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) or...
  • Section 19608.1.
    Unless the board finds it impractical to do so, any fair or any association with an average daily handle of less than one million five...
  • Section 19608.2.
    (a) In order to permit associations providing audiovisual signals the ability to do so without undue burden and expense, to avoid unnecessary duplication of facilities, to...
  • Section 19608.3.
    (a) Funds allocated by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 19606.1 for fire and life safety improvement...
  • Section 19608.4.
    A satellite wagering facility, an organization established pursuant to Section 19608.2 or any of their subcontractors or entities under contract to perform any of the...
  • Section 19608.5.
    All revenues payable to the state and deposited in a separate account in the fund pursuant to Section 19606.1 that are allocated by the Secretary...
  • Section 19608.6.
    (a) Any joint powers agency requesting money in connection with the issuance of bonds for the purposes described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section...
  • Section 19608.7.
    It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting Sections 19608.5, 19608.6, and 19608.8 to provide the revenues necessary for the financing by joint powers...
  • Section 19608.8.
    The State of California does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any bonds or other indebtedness issued, and with those joint powers...

Last modified: October 22, 2018