Chapter 128A

Section 1. Terms used in this chapter shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as follows:-- [ Definition of "Breaks'' effective until December 15, 2027. See 2001, 139, Sec. 45 as amended by 2005, 176, Sec. 13; 2006, 54, Sec. 12; 2006, 449, Secs. 19 and 21; 2008…

Section 10. Any licensee permitting any minor to participate in the pari-mutuel or certificate system of wagering at a racing meeting held or conducted by such licensee shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. At least eighty-five per cent of the persons …

Section 10A. Any commissioner or representative of the commission or any person licensed to conduct a horse or dog racing meeting, including racing meetings conducted in connection with state or county fairs, shall have the right to refuse admission to or eject from its premises …

Section 10B. Whoever, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, alters or forges a pari-mutuel betting ticket issued under the provisions of section five, or whoever, with intent to defraud, utters and publishes as true a false, forged or altered pari-mutuel betting ticket issued un…

Section 11. The commission shall have full discretion to refuse to grant a license to any applicant for a license or to suspend or revoke the license of any licensee. If any license is suspended or revoked, the commission shall make a record of its reasons for doing so and such r…

Section 11C. Except in the case of a publicly held corporation, no person, firm, partnership, trust, association or corporation who has been granted a license to conduct a horse or dog racing meeting, or an officer, director or the beneficial owner of ten per cent or more of the …

Section 12. No person shall hold or conduct, or assist, aid or abet in holding or conducting, any horse or dog racing meeting within the commonwealth unless such person shall comply with the provisions of this chapter. Any person holding or conducting or any person aiding or abet…

Section 13. Any person making a handbook, at any race track within the commonwealth, or holding or conducting a gambling pool or managing any other type of wagering or betting on the results of any horse or dog race, or aiding or abetting any of the foregoing types of wagering or…

Section 13A. The provisions of section one hundred and eighty-one of chapter one hundred and forty and the provisions of said chapter relative to the powers and duties of dog officers and of sections thirty-one, thirty-three and thirty-four of chapter two hundred and seventy-one,…

Section 13B. No person shall administer or cause to be administered any drug, internally or externally by injection, drench or otherwise, to any horse or dog for the purpose of retarding, stimulating or in any other manner affecting the speed of such horse or dog in or in connect…

Section 13C. No person shall influence, induce or conspire or connive with, or attempt so to do, any owner, trainer, jockey, agent, driver, groom or other person associated with or interested in or having charge of or access to any horse or dog entered or to be entered in a race …

Section 14. Licenses shall not be granted under this chapter for the holding or conducting of any horse racing meeting or any dog racing meeting within any county unless a majority of the registered voters of such county voting on the following described questions relative to gra…

Section 14B. Except as hereinafter provided, the state secretary shall, in addition to subdivisions A and B of the subdivided question provided for in section fourteen, cause to be placed on the official ballot to be used in the cities and towns of Berkshire county at the biennia…

Section 14C. Except as hereinafter provided, the state secretary shall, in addition to subdivisions A and B of the subdivided question provided for in section fourteen, cause to be placed on the official ballot to be used in the cities and towns of Hampshire county at the biennia…

Section 14D. A certified copy of the results of a vote on a question submitted to the voters of a political subdivision, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, relative to granting a license for a horse or dog racing meeting or horse or dog races at fairs, shall be se…

Section 14E. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or any general or special law to the contrary, no dog racing or racing meeting where any form of betting or wagering on the speed or ability of dogs occurs shall be conducted or permitted in this commonwealth and the com…

Section 2. Any person desiring to hold or conduct a horse or dog racing meeting within the commonwealth shall make an application to the Massachusetts gaming commission established in chapter 23K for a license so to do. Such application shall state [ Introductory paragraph of fir…

Section 3. If any application for a license, filed as provided by section two, shall be in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the commission, after reasonable notice and a public hearing in the city or town wherein the license is to be exercised, may issue a license …

Section 4. The fee for the license provided for in section three shall be three hundred dollars or three-fourths of one-tenth of one per cent of the average daily handle of the previous calendar year for each day of any running horse, harness horse or dog racing meeting, whicheve…

Section 5. (a) Before holding or conducting a racing meeting, every licensee shall provide a place or places, equipped as hereinafter provided, on the grounds where such meeting is held or conducted or adjacent thereto, but not elsewhere, at which such licensee shall conduct and …

Section 5A. No action to recover winnings upon a wager made under this chapter or chapter 128C after November 15, 2001 shall be commenced after December 31 of the year following the year in which the wager was made, and no such winnings shall be paid by a licensee except pursuant…

Section 5B. (a) One-quarter of one per cent of the total amount deposited at all racing meetings by the patrons wagering at such meetings shall be used to reimburse the commonwealth for funds appropriated by the general court for the operation and general administration of the co…

Section 5C. Notwithstanding section 17A of chapter 271, each person licensed to conduct a running horse, harness horse or dog racing meeting, not including racing meetings held or conducted at a state or county fair, may establish and maintain betting accounts with individuals fo…

Section 6. Accurate records and books shall at all times be kept and maintained by each licensee, showing the number, nature and amount of all wagers made in connection with such meeting. The commission, or its duly authorized representatives, shall at all reasonable times have a…

Section 7. The commission shall appoint two stewards to each track licensed to conduct racing meetings, who shall not be subject to chapter thirty-one or section nine A of chapter thirty. The commission shall assign, by regulation, duties to be performed by him. The compensation …

Section 8. The commission shall apply to the department of public safety for the assignment of a complement of police officers to the commission on a regular basis and said department shall assign such complement to the commission. The commission shall assign such police officers…

Section 8A. The commission shall make periodic inspections of all of the installations and facilities operated by its licensees, including stable areas and the office of the racing secretary during the time that entries are being filed. Each member shall from time to time persona…

Section 9. The commission shall have full power to prescribe rules, regulations and conditions under which all horse or dog races at horse or dog racing meetings shall be conducted in the commonwealth and may by rule or regulation prohibit licensees from admitting minors to dog o…

Section 9A. For the purpose of enabling the commission to exercise and maintain a proper control over horse and dog racing conducted under the provisions of this chapter, the rules, regulations and conditions prescribed by the commission under section nine shall provide for the l…

Section 9B. Notwithstanding the provisions of section five of chapter thirty A, no rule, regulation or condition of the commission promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall take effect except as hereinafter provided. A copy of every such rule, regulation or con…