Title PML, Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law

§ 1402. Registration. 1. (a) No operator shall administer, manage, or otherwise make available an interactive fantasy sports platform to persons located in New York state unless registered with the commission pursuant to section fourteen hundred three of this article. A registra…

§ 1403. Scope of registration review. 1. The commission shall prescribe the initial form of the application for registration which shall require, but not be limited to: (a) the full name and principal address of the operator; (b) if a corporation, the name of the state in which …

§ 1404. Required safeguards, minimum standards. 1. As a condition of registration in New York state, each operator and registrant shall implement the following measures: (a) limit each authorized player to one active and continuously used account, and prevent prohibited players …

§ 1405. Powers and duties of the commission. 1. The commission shall promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of and effectuate the policy and objectives of this article as the commission may deem necessary or advisable, including the development of the initial form of…

§ 1406. Annual report. 1. Each registrant shall annually submit a report to the commission no later than the thirtieth of June of each year, which shall include the following information as it shall apply to accounts held by authorized players located in New York state: (a) the …

§ 1407. State tax. For the privilege of conducting interactive fantasy sports contests in the state, registrants shall pay a tax equivalent to fifteen percent of their interactive fantasy sports gross revenue generated within the state; in addition, registrants shall pay a tax e…

§ 1408. Additional regulatory costs. The commission may assess annually, in arrears, on each registrant proportional to the interactive fantasy sports gross revenue of such registrant in the preceding year compared to the aggregate interactive fantasy sports gross revenue of all…

§ 1409. Disposition of taxes. 1. The commission shall pay into the state lottery fund all taxes imposed by this article; any interest and penalties imposed by the commission relating to those taxes; all penalties levied and collected by the commission; and the appropriate funds,…

§ 1410. Determination of tax liability. The commission may perform audits of the books and records of an interactive fantasy sports operator with a permit or registrant, at such times and intervals as it deems appropriate, for the purpose of determining the sufficiency of tax pa…

§ 1411. Contests authorized. Interactive fantasy sports contests registered and conducted pursuant to the provisions of this chapter are hereby authorized.

§ 1412. Contests prohibited. The conduct of unregistered interactive fantasy sports contests is prohibited.

§ 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 wagering and furthering the raising and breeding and improving the breed of horses, …

§ 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 capital stock shall have been subscribed, nor until it shall have filed i…

§ 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 exempt from any personal liability resulting from carrying out…

§ 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 or statutory provision.

§ 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 provisions of this article, and any other corporation entitled to the benefits and pri…

§ 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 by this article, shall have any of the powers conferred by section tw…

§ 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 course or race meeting for running races or steeplechases, ma…

§ 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 the extent that the provisions of the not-for-profit 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, shall consist of seventeen members, five of whom shall be elected by the present class A directors of The New York Racing Ass…

§ 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 than April fifth, a franchise fee payment. The franchise fee shall be calculated an…

§ 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 franchised corporation, including its receipts, disbursements, contracts…

§ 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 such franchise prior to the expiration date of such franchise, or that such fr…

§ 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 term of any such franchise without giving separate written notification of its intention to ef…

§ 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 article upon filing in the offices wherein its certificate of incorporation is filed, a certificate…

* § 212. Franchise oversight board. 1. There is hereby created a franchise oversight board which shall consist of five members. Of the five members, three shall be appointed by the governor, one shall be appointed by the temporary president of the senate and one shall be appoint…

§ 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 an organization composed of more than one labor union, determined by t…

§ 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 franchise oversight board for approval of such acquisition. If in the judg…

§ 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 to the commission and to the franchise oversight b…

§ 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 terms and conditions of its license, or if for any other reason the continuance of such license shall not be deem…

§ 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. One of such stewards shall be the official steward of the commission, one shall be appointe…

§ 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 commission to promulgate any rule or regulation that would prohibit a jockey from wearing any advertising or…

§ 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 article, the commission shall license owners, which term shall be …

§ 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 twenty-six, or under article twenty of the membership corporations law, are …

§ 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 as "the fund". To the extent that the provisions of the not-for-profit corpora…

§ 221-a. Health insurance for jockeys. 1. a. A franchised corporation\nshall, as a condition of racing, establish a program to administer the\npurchase of health insurance for eligible jockeys.\n Such program shall be funded through the deposit of one and one-half\npercent of th…

§ 221-b. Health insurance for trainers. 1. A franchised corporation\nshall, as a condition of racing, establish a program to administer the\npurchase of health insurance for eligible trainers. Such program shall\nbe funded through the deposit of up to three percent of the gross …

§ 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 of this article shall cause to be properly posted in conspicuous positions upon the groun…

§ 223. Special police officers. 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 to the provisions of this article are hereby authorized to appoint from time t…

§ 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 or by special laws, is a public nuisance; and every person acting or aiding therein, or making or…

§ 225. Registration of race horses. The true name, sex and age, and\nalso the pedigree, unless such pedigree is unknown, of every horse,\nmare, gelding, colt or filly shall be registered with the jockey club,\nUnited States trotting association, American quarter horse associatio…

§ 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 or additional entrance fees for admission to any special portion or porti…

§ 228. Pension plans for backstretch employees. 1. The commission may, as a condition of racing, require all trainers and owners engaged in racing at meetings of any corporation subject to its jurisdiction to participate in a pension plan or trust established, or which may be es…

§ 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 coor…

§ 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 two hundred twenty-eight of this article shall annually…

§ 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 people at the general election in November, nineteen hundred thirty-nine, the legislature prescr…

§ 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 commission for a license to conduct a race course or a race meeting for running races or steeplechases, or at such subs…

§ 233. Bond required of corporation conducting pari-mutuel betting. 1. Every corporation franchised or licensed by the commission to conduct pari-mutuel betting, annually and before the opening of any race meeting, shall execute and file with the state comptroller, a bond to the…

§ 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 or enclosure at which such licensee or franchisee shall conduc…

§ 235. Rules for the conduct of pari-mutuel betting. 1. The commission shall make rules regulating the conduct of pari-mutuel betting, as authorized pursuant to this chapter. 2. The rules shall provide that all winning pari-mutuel tickets must be presented for payment before Apr…