Title XIX, Public Safety and Morals

No person shall knowingly enter or cause to be entered for competition, or compete, for a prize or stake, or drive any horse, under an assumed name, or out of its proper class, where the prize or stake is to be decided by a contest of speed.

performance. (1) No person shall change the name of any horse for the purpose of entry for competition in any contest of speed, after the horse has once contested for a prize or stake, except as provided by the code of rules of the association under which the contest is advertise…

No official timer at any horse race shall announce willfully and falsely a slower or faster time than that actually accomplished by a horse.

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Advance deposit account wagering" means a form of pari-mutuel wagering in which an individual may establish an account with a person or entity licensed by the corporation, and may place a pari-mutuel wager throu…

gaming corporation's power to exclude undesirables -- Jurisdiction over sports wagering, fantasy contests, fixed-odds wagering, and charitable gaming. (1) (a) It is the policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in furtherance of its responsibility to foster and to encourage legitim…

gaming corporation. (1) There is established, under the jurisdiction of the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation, the backside improvement fund. This revolving fund shall consist of money allocated to the fund under the provisions of KRS 230.3615, together with any other …

Annual audit -- Annual report -- Office -- Meetings -- Responsibilities -- Operations -- Limitations -- Enforcement -- Administrative regulations. (1) There is hereby created and established the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation to regulate all forms of live horse raci…

interest -- Compensation -- Powers and duties -- Background check -- Removal -- Ethics. (1) (a) The affairs and responsibilities of the corporation shall be administered by a board of directors composed of seventeen (17) members. All seventeen (17) members shall be appointed by t…

(1) The Governor shall appoint a president, who shall act as chief executive officer of the corporation, from a list of up to three (3) names provided by the board of directors of the corporation. The president may be removed by the board of directors. The president shall have th…

managers -- Regulation authority -- Office of Charitable Gaming. (1) The president of the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation shall establish offices within the corporation. Each office shall have specific duties assigned by the president. Topics addressed by the offices…

(1) (a) Notwithstanding any provision of KRS 61.520 to the contrary, the corporation shall participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System effective July 1, 2024, and all eligible employees shall participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System effective July 1, 20…

-- Duties, qualifications, and training -- Compensation. (1) (a) The president of the corporation may employ, dismiss, or take other personnel action and determine the reasonable compensation of stewards, veterinarians, inspectors, and persons not otherwise identified in KRS Chap…

Corporation -- Administrative regulations -- Problem or compulsive gamblers -- Conduct of sports wagering and charitable gaming. The corporation shall have all powers necessary and proper to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter on and after July 1,…

Attorney General -- Duties of licensed online gaming operator -- Penalties -- Administrative regulations. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Child support arrearage" means a past-due child support obligation of five hundred dollars ($500) or more owed by an individual per Title IV…

(1) (a) There is hereby created a panel, to be known as the Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council, to advise the corporation on the conduct of equine drug research and testing commissioned by the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation. (b) The council shall consist of nine …

(1) No person shall hold or conduct any horse race meeting for any stake, purse, or reward within the Commonwealth of Kentucky without securing the required license from the corporation. (2) The corporation shall investigate the qualifications of each applicant for a license to c…

All licenses granted under this chapter: (1) Shall be in writing; (2) Shall be subject to all administrative regulations and conditions as may from time to time be prescribed by the corporation; (3) Shall contain conditions as may be considered necessary or desirable by the corpo…

(1) As used in this section, "the nearest five cent ($0.05) increment" means: (a) Amounts ending in one cent ($0.01) and two cents ($0.02) are rounded down to the nearest ten cents ($0.10); (b) Amounts ending in three cents ($0.03) and four cents ($0.04) are rounded up to the nea…

wagering as a receiving track -- Application -- Racing dates. (1) Any person desiring to conduct horse racing at a horse race meeting within the Commonwealth of Kentucky or to engage in simulcasting and intertrack wagering as a receiving track during any calendar year shall first…

gaming. (1) (a) Every person not required to be licensed under KRS 230.300 who desires to participate in horse racing in the Commonwealth as a horse owner, trainer, jockey, apprentice jockey, agent, stable employee, racing official, association employee, or employee of a person o…

stewards' decision -- Review -- Frivolous appeals. (1) Every license granted under this chapter is subject to denial, revocation, or suspension, and every licensee or other person participating in Kentucky horse racing may be assessed an administrative fine and required to forfei…

Any licensee or any applicant aggrieved by any final order of the corporation may appeal to the Circuit Court of the county in which the licensee or applicant works or resides in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B.

The state budget director, the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Department of Revenue, and the State Treasurer shall transfer to the corporation all existing moneys, including carry forward balances and interest, by June 30, 2025, and any future receipts s…

Auction requirements -- Dual agents -- Disclosures required -- Violations -- Auction disclosures not required -- Limitation on application of section -- Enforceability of contracts for payment of commission. (1) For purposes of this section, "equine" means a horse of any breed us…

(1) The provisions of this chapter are intended to be statewide and exclusive in their effect and no city, county, or other political subdivision of state government shall have the power or authority to make or enforce any local laws, ordinances, or regulations on the subject of …

operation not grounds for revocation or suspension of temporary alcoholic beverage license -- Tickets presumed abandoned -- License for special charitable events. (1) (a) The corporation may promulgate administrative regulations governing and regulating mutuel wagering on horse r…

association -- Distribution of funds -- Annual report to corporation. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary: (1) All funds from unredeemed pari-mutuel vouchers presumed abandoned under KRS 230.361 shall be deemed property of the licensed association. All licensed associations s…

Breaks -- Payment for backside improvement fund. (1) The commission, including the tax levied in KRS 138.510, deducted from the gross amount wagered by the association which operates a race track under the jurisdiction of the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation and condu…

Any person holding unclaimed pari-mutuel winning tickets presumed abandoned under the provisions of KRS 230.361 shall file annually, on or before September 1 of each year, with the office of the corporation a list of and the amounts represented by unclaimed pari- mutuel tickets h…

Any person who has made a report of unclaimed pari-mutuel tickets to the corporation as required by KRS 230.362 shall, between November 1 and November 15 of each year, turn over to the corporation the sum represented by the unclaimed pari-mutuel tickets so reported; but if the pe…

Any person holding an unclaimed pari-mutuel ticket or any person holding the sum represented by an unclaimed pari-mutuel ticket, or any claimant thereto shall have the right to a judicial determination of the person's rights under KRS 230.361 to 230.373 and nothing therein shall …

liability. Any person who pays the sum represented by the unclaimed pari-mutuel tickets to the corporation under KRS 230.363 is relieved of all liability for the value of said unclaimed pari-mutuel tickets for any claim made in respect of said unclaimed pari-mutuel tickets.

to racing and gaming corporation. Any person claiming an interest in any unclaimed pari-mutuel ticket which has been paid or surrendered to the corporation in accordance with KRS 230.361 to 230.373 may file his or her claim to it at any time after it was paid to the corporation.

The corporation shall consider any claim or defense permitted to be filed before the corporation and hear the evidence concerning it. If the claimant establishes his or her claim, the corporation shall, when the time for appeal or other legal procedure has expired, authorize paym…

Any person dissatisfied with the decision of the corporation under KRS 230.367 may appeal to the Circuit Court of the county where the person works or resides in accordance with the provisions of KRS Chapter 13B.

The corporation, through its employees, may examine all records of any person where there is reason to believe that there has been or is a failure to report unclaimed pari- mutuel tickets.

regulations. The corporation may promulgate any reasonable and necessary administrative regulation for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the conduct of hearings held before it.

The corporation may require the production of reports or the surrender of sums represented by unclaimed pari-mutuel tickets as provided in KRS 230.361 to 230.373 by civil equity action, including, but not limited to, an action in the nature of a bill of discovery, in which case t…

Any payments made to any persons claiming an interest in an unclaimed pari-mutuel ticket, and any necessary expense including, but not limited to, administrative costs, advertising costs, court costs and attorney's fees, required to be paid by the corporation in administering or …

Any holder of unclaimed pari-mutuel tickets affected by KRS 230.361 to 230.373 under disability shall have five (5) years after the disability is removed in which to take any action or procedure or make any defense allowed to one sui juris.

All sums reported and paid to the corporation under the provisions of KRS 230.361 to 230.373, with the exception of funds paid under KRS 230.3612 and 230.398, shall be paid by the corporation to the Kentucky Racing Health and Welfare Fund, Inc., a nonprofit charitable corporation…

(1) The board of directors of the Kentucky Racing Health and Welfare Fund, Inc., may create and fund the Kentucky Race Track Retirement Plan. The board shall use no more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the annual sum paid by the corporation under KRS 230.361 to 230.373 to fund …

Pari-mutuel Wagering. The Governor of this Commonwealth is authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the Commonwealth with any of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and each territory or possession of the United States, l…

The Governor of this Commonwealth is authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the Commonwealth with any of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and each territory or possession of the United States, legally joining therein…

KRS 230.3761 and 230.3765 shall only take effect with respect to any compacting state which has enacted an interstate compact entitled "Interstate Racing and Wagering Compact" and having an identical effect to that added by KRS 230.3761 upon the enactment into law by at least six…

contingency) (1) Each proposed compact rule under consideration for adoption in Kentucky shall be forwarded to the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee ("ARRS") and the subcommittee or standing committee of appropriate jurisdiction over the subject matter of the proposed…

(1) Other provisions of the Kentucky Revised Statutes notwithstanding, a track may apply to the corporation for simulcasting and intertrack wagering dates. Applications shall be submitted in accordance with KRS 230.300. The corporation shall not approve the establishment or reloc…

Thoroughbred tracks, harness tracks, and simulcast facilities. (1) A Thoroughbred track licensed to conduct Thoroughbred racing may receive interstate simulcasts of Thoroughbred, quarter horse, paint horse, Appaloosa, and Arabian horse races, and conduct interstate wagering there…

(1) As used in this section, "interstate common wagering pool" means a pari-mutuel pool established in one (1) horse racing jurisdiction that is combined with comparable pari-mutuel pools from at least one (1) horse racing jurisdiction for the purpose of establishing payoff price…

wagering system -- Commission -- Tax exemption. (1) A receiving track may accept wagers only at the track where it is licensed to conduct its race meeting or conduct intertrack wagering. A receiving track may accept wagers through a telephone account wagering system. Wagers at a …