California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 9 - Wagering

• Section 19590.
  The board shall adopt rules governing, permitting, and regulating parimutuel wagering on horse races under the system known as the parimutuel method of wagering. Parimutuel...
• Section 19591.
  Any licensee conducting a horse racing meeting shall provide a place or places within the meeting grounds or inclosure where the licensee may conduct, operate,...
• Section 19592.
  The parimutuel system of wagering shall be operated only by a totalizator or other equipment approved by the board. The board shall not require any...
• Section 19592.5.
  In order to facilitate the intrastate transmission of racing programs, the board shall adopt regulations that provide for the compatibility of parimutuel totalizator systems within...
• Section 19593.
  No method of betting, pool making, or wagering other than by the parimutuel method shall be permitted or used by any person licensed under this...
• Section 19594.
  Any person within the inclosure where a horse racing meeting is authorized may wager on the result of a horse race held at that meeting...
• Section 19595.
  Any form of wagering or betting on the result of a horse race other than that permitted by this chapter is illegal.(Amended (as amended by...
• Section 19596.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may do any of the following:(1) Authorize a licensed harness racing association that is conducting a live racing...
• Section 19596.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may authorize a harness or quarter horse association conducting a race meeting to accept wagers on the...
• Section 19596.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided in Section 19596.4, a thoroughbred racing association or fair may distribute the audiovisual signal and accept wagers...
• Section 19596.21.
  (a) In addition to the authorizations to accept wagers on out-of-state and out-of-country races pursuant to Sections 19596.2 and 19596.3 and in any other provision of...
• Section 19596.3.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a thoroughbred racing association or fair may distribute the audiovisual signal and accept wagers on the results of out-of-country...
• Section 19596.4.
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of, and subject to the conditions specified in subdivisions (c) and (d) of, Section 19596.2, if the total number of thoroughbred and...
• Section 19597.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a person licensed under this chapter to conduct a horse racing meeting shall, as to any payment made...
• Section 19597.5.
  A person licensed under this chapter to conduct a horse racing meeting shall hold in trust the distributions required to be made pursuant to this...
• Section 19598.
  Any person claiming to be entitled to any part of a redistribution from a parimutuel pool operated by a licensee under this chapter, who fails...
• Section 19599.
  An association or fair may offer any form of parimutuel wagering, as defined by regulations adopted by the board, or as defined by Chapter 4,...
• Section 19601.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensed association or fair that is conducting a live meeting in any racing zone may accept wagers on...
• Section 19601.01.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a thoroughbred association or fair, upon the filing of a written notice with, and approval by, the board specifying...
• Section 19601.02.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 19610, every thoroughbred association or fair that conducts a live race meeting shall deduct an additional 2 percent of the total amount handled...
• Section 19601.2.
  During calendar periods when any other fair or thoroughbred association and the Humboldt County Fair simultaneously conduct race meetings in the northern zone, the other...
• Section 19601.3.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a quarter horse racing association, subject to approval by the board, may deduct from the total amount handled in...
• Section 19601.4.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a fair, combination of fairs, or an association conducting racing at a fair, may, after approval from the board,...
• Section 19602.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any racing association located in this state may authorize betting systems located outside of this state to accept wagers...
• Section 19603.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any racing association in this state may, with the approval of the board, accept out-of-state wagers on a race...
• Section 19604.
  The board may authorize a racing association, racing fair, betting system, or multijurisdictional wagering hub to conduct advance deposit wagering in accordance with this section....

Last modified: October 22, 2018