New York Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law Section 1322 - General provisions.

1322. General provisions. 1. It shall be the affirmative responsibility of each applicant or licensee to establish by clear and convincing evidence its individual qualifications, and for a gaming facility license the qualifications of each person who is required to be qualified under this article.

2. Any applicant, licensee, registrant, or any other person who must be qualified pursuant to this article shall provide all legally required information and satisfy all lawful requests for information pertaining to qualification and in the form specified by regulation. All applicants, registrants, and licensees shall waive liability as to the state, and its instrumentalities and agents, for any damages resulting from any disclosure or publication in any manner, other than a willfully unlawful disclosure or publication, of any material or information acquired during inquiries, investigations or hearings.

3. All applicants, licensees, registrants, intermediary companies, and holding companies shall consent to inspections, searches and seizures while at a gaming facility and the supplying of handwriting exemplars as authorized by this article and regulations promulgated hereunder.

4. All applicants, licensees, registrants, and any other person who shall be qualified pursuant to this article shall have the continuing duty to provide any assistance or information required by the commission, and to cooperate in any inquiry, investigation or hearing conducted by the commission. If, upon issuance of a formal request to answer or produce information, evidence or testimony, any applicant, licensee, registrant, or any other person who shall be qualified pursuant to this article refuses to comply, the application, license, registration or qualification of such person may be denied or revoked.

5. Each applicant or person who must be qualified under this article shall be photographed and fingerprinted for identification and investigation purposes in accordance with procedures set forth by regulation.

6. All licensees, all registrants, and all other persons required to be qualified under this article shall have a duty to inform the commission of any action which they believe would constitute a violation of this article. No person who so informs the commission shall be discriminated against by an applicant, licensee or registrant because of the supplying of such information.


Last modified: February 3, 2019