New York Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law Article 2 - THOROUGHBRED RACING AND BREEDING

• 201 - Incorporation.
  (a) General requirements. Any number of persons may become a corporation for the purpose of conducting racing at one or more thoroughbred racetracks, conducting pari-mutuel...
• 202 - Restriction Upon Commencement of Business.
  No business corporation organized under the provisions of this article shall engage in the prosecution or management of its business until the whole of its...
• 202-a - Liability of the Directors of a Franchised Corporation.
  The directors of a franchised corporation, and any person or persons acting on their behalf, while acting within the scope of their authority, shall be...
• 202-b - No Debt of the State.
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to accept a liability to or create a debt of the state within the meaning of any constitutional...
• 203 - Right to Hold Race Meetings and Races.
  Any corporation formed under the provisions of this article, if so claimed in its certificate of organization, and if it shall comply with all the...
• 204 - Certificate of Payment of Stock.
  Except as provided in this article, no business corporation hereafter organized under this article or heretofore organized in pursuance of law for any purpose authorized...
• 205 - License for Running Races and Steeplechase Meetings.
  Any non-franchised corporation desiring to obtain the benefits of the provisions of section two hundred three of this article, if proposing to conduct a race...
• 206 - Franchise for Running Races and Steeplechase Meetings.
  1. The franchised corporation referred to in this chapter shall be a not-for-profit corporation to be known as The New York Racing Association, Inc. To...
• 207 - Board of Directors of a Franchise Corporation.
  * 207. Board of directors of a franchised corporation. 1. a. The board of directors, to be called the New York racing association reorganization board,...
• 208 - Conditions of Franchise Award.
  1. In consideration of the franchise and in accordance with its franchise agreement, the franchised corporation shall remit to the state, each year, no later...
• 209 - Examination of the Books and Accounts by the State Comptroller.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the state comptroller may from time to time examine the books and accounts of such franchise corporation, including...
• 210 - Franchise Termination.
  Upon receiving notification, in accordance with the provisions of section two hundred ten-a of this article, from any franchised corporation that it intends to relinquish...
• 210-a - Relinquishment of Franchise.
  1. No franchised corporation shall relinquish a franchise granted to it pursuant to section two hundred six of this article at any time within the...
• 211 - Fair Association, When Entitled to Privileges.
  Any state, county or other fair association shall be entitled to the privileges conferred by section two hundred four of this chapter upon filing in...
• 212 - Franchise Oversight Board.
  * 1. There is hereby created a franchise oversight board which shall consist of five members appointed by the governor. Of the five members, one...
• 213 - Project Labor Agreements.
  1. For the purposes of this section, "project labor agreement" shall mean a pre-hire collective bargaining agreement between a contractor and the labor organization, including...
• 214 - Acquisition of Racing Facilities.
  Any franchised corporation desiring to acquire racing facilities, including real estate, or the capital stock of one or more racing associations shall apply to the...
• 216 - Disposition of Racing Facilities or Certain Assets.
  1. Any franchised corporation desiring to grant, give, devise, or sell any assets including tangible and intangible assets, racing facilities and real estate shall apply...
• 217 - Revocation of Licenses.
  If any corporation to which a license shall be granted shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or with the...
• 218 - Stewards At Race Meetings.
  There shall be three stewards to supervise each running race meeting conducted pursuant to sections two hundred five and two hundred six of this article....
• 219 - Advertising or Promotional Material.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation nothing herein shall be deemed to authorize the stewards or the racing and wagering board to...
• 220 - Licenses for Participants and Employees At Race Meetings.
  1. For the purpose of maintaining a proper control over race meetings conducted pursuant to sections two hundred five and two hundred six of this...
• 220-a - Corporations Continued.
  Corporations heretofore formed under chapter five hundred seventy of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-five, chapter four hundred forty of the laws of nineteen hundred...
• 221 - New York Jockey Injury Compensation Fund, Inc.
  1. There is created a not-for-profit corporation to be known as The New York Jockey Injury Compensation Fund, Inc. and referred to in this section...
• 221-a - Health Insurance for Jockeys.
  1. A franchised corporation shall, as a condition of racing, establish a program to administer the purchase of health insurance for eligible jockeys. Such program...
• 222 - Notice to Be Posted Upon Grounds.
  Every corporation to be organized under this article or which shall be entitled to exercise any of the powers conferred by section two hundred three...
• 223 - Special Policemen.
  For the purpose of preserving order and preventing offenses against the laws prohibiting gambling, the trustees or directors of any corporation created under or subject...
• 224 - Penalty for Unlawful Racing and Betting.
  All racing or trials of speed between horses or other animals for any bet, stake or reward, except such as is allowed by this article...
• 225 - Registration of Race Horses.
  The true name, sex and age, and also the pedigree, unless such pedigree is unknown, of every horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly shall be...
• 226 - Increased or Additional Entrance Fees.
  A corporation authorized by or entitled to the benefits of this article, conducting a running or steeplechase meeting, shall have the right to charge increased...
• 227 - Admission Tax.
  1. Every corporation holding a race meeting pursuant to this article shall collect in addition to the admission price of tickets sold or otherwise disposed...
• 228 - Pension Plans for Backstretch Employees.
  1. The state racing and wagering board may, as a condition of racing, require all trainers and owners engaged in racing at meetings of any...
• 229 - Backstretch Employees Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Eligibility.
  Any licensed not-for-profit organization providing drug and alcohol rehabilitation services to backstretch employees shall receive information concerning available funding and existing programs from a coordinated...
• 230 - Membership in a National Thoroughbred Racing Association.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if a majority of the board of directors of a horsemen's organization qualified pursuant to section...
• 231 - Pari-Mutuel Betting on Horse Races Legalized.
  In the exercise of the authority vested in it by section nine of article one of the state constitution, as amended by vote of the...
• 232 - License to Conduct Pari-Mutuel Betting At Race Meetings for Running Races or Steeplechases.
  1. Any corporation, at the time of making application to the state racing and wagering board for a license to conduct a race course or...
• 233 - Bond Required of Corporation Conducting Pari-Mutuel Betting.
  1. Every corporation franchised or licensed by the state racing and wagering board to conduct pari-mutuel betting, annually and before the opening of any race...
• 234 - Place and Manner of Conducting Pari-Mutuel Betting.
  Any corporation licensed or franchised to conduct pari-mutuel betting at a horse race meeting shall provide a place or places within the race meeting grounds...
• 235 - Rules for the Conduct of Pari-Mutuel Betting.
  1. The state racing and wagering board shall make rules regulating the conduct of pari-mutuel betting, as authorized pursuant to this chapter. 2. The rules...
• 236 - Disposition of Pari-Mutuel Pools; Percentage Payable to State As a Tax; Authority of Counties of Certain Cities to Impose a Tax.
  236. Disposition of pari-mutuel pools; percentage payable to state as a tax; authority of counties or certain cities to impose a tax. 1. Every corporation...
• 237 - Capital Improvements.
  1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth unless the context requires a different meaning: a....
• 238 - Disposition of Pari-Mutuel Pools of the Franchised Corporation; Percentage Payable to State As a Tax; Authority of Counties or Certain Cities to Impos
  238. Disposition of pari-mutuel pools of the franchised corporation; percentage payable to state as a tax; authority of counties or certain cities to impose a...
• 239 - Books and Records of Pari-Mutuel Betting.
  Every corporation or association conducting a horse race meeting at which pari-mutuel betting on the races run at such meeting is authorized shall keep its...
• 240 - Yearly Audit.
  1. The franchised corporation shall, at its own expense, cause its annual financial statements to be audited in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards by...
• 241 - Disposition of Unpaid Money Due on Account of Pari-Mutuel Tickets Not Presented.
  The sum held by any corporation authorized to conduct pari-mutuel betting for payment of outstanding winning pari-mutuel tickets and for refunding the price of pari-mutuel...
• 242 - Races for Horses Bred in the State.
  The state racing and wagering board in granting a license to a corporation to conduct running or steeplechase races at its racetrack, if it deems...
• 243 - Free or Reduced Fee Passes, Cards or Badges.
  A corporation licensed or franchised to conduct pari-mutuel betting on races run on its racetrack may issue free passes, cards or badges to any qualified...
• 244 - Revocation of License or Franchise.
  The state racing and wagering board may revoke a license issued by it under this chapter or a franchise granted pursuant to section two hundred...
• 245 - Hearing on Refusal or Revocation of License or Franchise.
  If the state racing and wagering board shall refuse to grant a license applied for under this chapter, or shall determine to revoke such a...
• 246 - Approval of Plans of Corporation.
  The state racing and wagering board shall not grant to a corporation hereafter formed pursuant to this chapter, a license to conduct a running or...
• 247 - Racing Zones.
  There are hereby created two racing zones to be known as the first zone and the second zone. The first zone shall include all of...
• 248 - Racing Season; Allotment of Dates for Racing.
  In the assignment of dates by the state racing and wagering board to corporations for conducting running races or steeplechases no conflict shall be deemed...
• 249 - Pari-Mutuel Employees to Be Citizens and Residents.
  At least eighty-five per centum of the persons employed each day by a racing corporation conducting a race meeting, to operate or assist in the...
• 250 - Power of State Racing and Wagering Board to Impose Penalties.
  In addition to its power to suspend or revoke occupational licenses, licenses to conduct running races and race meetings or steeplechases and steeplechase meetings and...
• 251 - Definitions.
  As used in sections two hundred fifty-two through two hundred fifty-six of this article, the following terms shall mean and include: 1. "Fund." The New...
• 252 - New York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund.
  1. A corporation to be known as the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund corporation is hereby created. Such corporation shall be a...
• 253 - Powers of the Fund.
  The fund shall have power: 1. To sue and be sued. 2. To have a seal and to alter the seal at its pleasure. 3....
• 254 - Resources of Fund.
  1. * a. The fund is authorized and directed to collect and receive on a quarterly basis in each calendar year from any racing corporation...
• 255 - Annual Audit.
  The comptroller or his legally authorized representative is authorized to and shall from time to time but at least annually examine the accounts and books...
• 256 - Annual Report.
  The fund shall annually make during the month of January a report to the governor setting forth in detail: 1. Its operations and accomplishments during...
• 257 - Actions Against Fund.
  Except in an action for wrongful death, no action against the fund founded upon tort shall be commenced (a) prior to the expiration of thirty...

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