Title 54 — PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

54-2501. Short title. This act may be cited as the "Idaho racing act."

54-2502. Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, words and phrases as used herein shall mean: (1) "Commission" means the Idaho state racing commission, hereinafter created. (2) "Gross daily receipts" means the total of all sums deposited in all pools for each race day…

54-2503. Racing commission created — Appointment — Removal — Claims. There is hereby created in the Idaho state police the Idaho state racing commission, to consist of three (3) members, who shall be citizens, residents, and qualified electors of the state of Idaho. The members o…

54-2504. Chairman — Quorum — Costs. The commission shall organize by electing one (1) of its members chairman. Two (2) members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any and all business of the commission. Each member of the board shall be compensated …

54-2505. Commission’s annual report — Public record. The commission shall keep detailed records of all meetings and of the business transacted therein, and all licenses applied for and issued, reports of which shall be embodied in an annual report which the commission shall prepa…

54-2506. Duties of commission and licensees — License fee. It shall be the duty of the commission, as soon as possible after its organization, to prepare and promulgate a complete set of rules and regulations to govern race meets and the pari-mutuel system. It shall be the duty o…

54-2507. Authority of commission. (1) The commission created by this act is hereby authorized and it shall be its duty to license, regulate, and supervise all race meets held in this state under the terms of this act, and to cause the various places where race meets are held to b…

54-2508. License — Application therefor — Type and number of races — Fee per day — Refund — Cancellation — Hearing — Simulcast purse moneys fund. It shall be unlawful for any person to hold any race meet in this state without having first obtained and having in force and effect a…

54-2509. Penalty for violations of law — Power of commission. (1) Any person holding a race meet, and any other person required by this act or the rules of the commission to be licensed, participating, directly or indirectly, in a race meet, without first being licensed by the co…

54-2510. Race exclusively for Idaho bred horses — Bonus for Idaho bred winners. (1) For the purpose of encouraging the breeding, within this state, of valuable thoroughbred, purebred and/or registered horses, at least one (1) race each day at each horse race meet shall be limited…

54-2511. Public liability insurance. For the protection of the public, and all members thereof, the exhibitors and visitors, every person licensed to conduct a race meet under the provisions of this act shall carry public liability insurance in an amount and form of contract and …

54-2512. Pari-mutuel betting — Other betting illegal. (1) Any licensee conducting a race meet under this chapter may provide a place or places in the race meet grounds or enclosure at which such licensee may conduct and supervise the use of the pari-mutuel system by patrons on th…

54-2513. Horse racing — Distributions of deposits — Breakage. (A) Each licensee conducting the pari-mutuel system for live and simulcast horse races having an average daily handle in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) shall distribute all sums deposited in any pool…

54-2514. Dog racing — Distribution of deposits — Breakage. (1) Each licensee conducting the pari-mutuel system for simulcast or televised dog races shall distribute all sums deposited in any pool as follows: (a) Seventy-nine and one-half percent (79.5%) of any win, place or show …

54-2514A. Dog racing illegal after the effective date of this act. (1) On and after the effective date of this act, live dog races and pari-mutuel betting on such races or the training of dogs to compete in live dog races shall be illegal in the state of Idaho. Notwithstanding an…

54-2515. Exemption from fee payment — Payment of sums due commission — Payment to public school income fund. Fair boards or fair districts which conduct race meets in connection with regularly scheduled annual fairs shall be exempt from payment of the fees provided in section 54-…

54-2516. Licensee’s right to withhold deposits. (1) In the event any government or governmental agency imposes a levy on a licensee, by a special tax on the money so deposited under the pari-mutuel system, or upon or against his receipts therefrom, the said licensee may withhold …

54-2517. Bond requirement. Every race meet licensee shall provide and deliver to the commission a bond signed by a surety company licensed to do business in this state in such form and in the sum as may be required by the commission, and conditioned that said licensee will pay to…