Title 37, Title 37. Health-Safety-Morals

(A) The state racing commission may issue, deny, suspend, or revoke licenses to those persons engaged in racing and to those employees of permit holders as is in the public interest for the purpose of maintaining a proper control over horse-racing meetings, subject to the require…

Any person, association, corporation, or trust desiring to hold or conduct a horse-racing meeting, wherein the pari-mutuel system of wagering is allowed, shall make application to the state racing commission for a permit to do so. Each application, accompanied by a permit fee of …

(A) Any information concerning the following that is submitted, collected, or gathered as part of an application to the state racing commission for a license or permit under this chapter is confidential and not subject to disclosure by a state agency or political subdivision as a…

At the time of making application for a permit to conduct a horse-racing meeting, the applicant shall deposit with the state racing commission a cash bond, certified check, or bank draft, payable to the order of the commission, in an amount equal to one hundred dollars for each d…

Upon the proper filing of an application to conduct a horse-racing meeting accompanied by a permit fee and a cash bond, certified check, or bank draft by any person, association, trust, or corporation, not in default of payment of any obligation or debt due to the state under sec…

(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no permit shall be issued under sections 3769.01 to 3769.14 of the Revised Code, authorizing the conduct of a live racing program for thoroughbred horses and quarter horses at any place, track, or enclosure except between the hour…

In addition to any permit authorized to be issued by this chapter, the state racing commission may issue not more than three permits for not more than fourteen consecutive racing days each at any race track, place, or enclosure. Not more than two permits shall be issued for quart…

The commission shall grant to any track or enclosure that has fewer permits or total racing days available to it than another track or enclosure located within twenty miles a number of permits so that the total number of racing days available to both tracks or enclosures is equal…

(A) Any person holding a permit to conduct a horse-racing meeting may provide a place in the race meeting grounds or enclosure at which the permit holder may conduct and supervise the pari-mutuel system of wagering by patrons of legal age on the live racing programs and simulcast…

(A) As used in this section:(1) "Collection and settlement agent" means the permit holder designated by the state racing commission under division (B) of this section.(2) "Racing week" means a seven-day period commencing on a Monday and ending on a Sunday.(3) "Simulcast guest" an…

(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, horse races that are conducted by a county agricultural society or independent agricultural society in accordance with section 3769.082 of the Revised Code shall be conducted at the fairgrounds of the sponsoring agricu…

Beginning in the calendar year after the first calendar year in which all thoroughbred permit holders receive a commission as a lottery sales agent for conducting video lottery terminal gaming on behalf of the state or on January 1, 2015, whichever occurs first, the fees to be pa…

(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio fairs fund. The director of agriculture shall distribute money in the fund annually, on or before the first day of March, as follows: (1) To each county agricultural society and to each independent agricultural society co…

(A) As used in this section:(1) An "accredited Ohio thoroughbred horse" means a horse conceived in this state and born in this state which is both of the following:(a) Born of a mare that is domiciled in this state at the time of the horse's conception, that remains continuously …

(A) The Ohio thoroughbred racing advisory committee is hereby created to consist of three members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The members of the committee shall be residents of the state knowledgeable in the breeding and racing of thorough…

(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio standardbred development fund, to consist of moneys paid into it pursuant to section 3769.08 of the Revised Code and any fees assessed for or on behalf of the Ohio sires stakes races. All fees so assessed shall be exempt …

(A) If a county agricultural society or independent agricultural society is unable to conduct races in accordance with section 3769.082 of the Revised Code because of unfavorable weather or another cause or if the number of horse races and stake races that are conducted by an agr…

(A) In addition to the commission of eighteen per cent retained by each permit holder as provided in section 3769.08 of the Revised Code, each permit holder shall retain an additional amount equal to four per cent of the total of all moneys wagered on each racing day on all wager…

(A)(1) If any permit holder required by this chapter to pay the taxes levied by sections 3769.08, 3769.087, 3769.26, and 3769.28 of the Revised Code fails to pay the taxes as required, the tax commissioner may make an assessment against the permit holder based upon any informatio…

(A) As used in this chapter:(1) "Racing day" means any day authorized under a permit holder's permit on which, at a simulcast host, either a live racing program is conducted as authorized under section 3769.07 of the Revised Code or a simulcast racing program is conducted as auth…

The state racing commission shall employ a racing inspector to attend each horse-racing meeting, held under a permit issued under sections 3769.01 to 3769.14 of the Revised Code. Such racing inspector shall give bond in the sum of five thousand dollars with sufficient sureties to…

The state racing commission may delegate to the stewards and judges of racing meetings under the jurisdiction of the commission the power to suspend licenses for not to exceed one year and to impose fines not to exceed one thousand dollars for any violation of the rules or orders…

The state racing commission and the tax commissioner shall enforce this chapter and may incur such expenses as are necessary; provided, that the power of the tax commissioner shall extend only to enforcement and administration of the taxes levied by sections 3769.08, 3769.087, 37…

(A) For the purposes of receiving, distributing, and accounting for revenue received from the taxes levied by sections 3769.08, 3769.087, and 3769.26 of the Revised Code, there is hereby created in the state treasury the horse-racing tax revenue fund.(B) All moneys collected from…

(A) For the purpose of receiving, distributing, and accounting for revenue received from the tax levied by section 3769.28 of the Revised Code, there is hereby created in the state treasury the horse-racing tax municipality fund. (B) All moneys collected from the tax imposed by s…

(A) On each day on which banks are open for business, or not later than noon of the calendar day following a racing day on which banks are not open for business, a permit holder shall remit the amount of tax due under sections 3769.08, 3769.087, and 3769.26 of the Revised Code in…

The county sheriff shall enforce sections 3769.01 to 3769.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

(A) Any person, association, trust, or corporation owning, leasing, or operating a race track, place, or enclosure which has been damaged by fire or other cause and at which in any year such a person, association, trust, or corporation has held or conducted a horse-racing meeting…

Notwithstanding sections 3769.07 and 3769.13 of the Revised Code, any person operating or conducting a horse-racing meeting at any race track, place, or enclosure in 1990 under a permit issued by the state racing commission, or the successor in interest to such person, may, with …

If there is presented to the board of elections of any county a petition, sworn to in the manner provided by section 3513.27 of the Revised Code and signed by thirty-five per cent of the qualified and registered electors, where such qualified electors are required to be registere…

The name of a horse, mare, gelding, colt, or filly for entry for competition in a contest of speed shall not be changed after having contested for a prize, purse, premium, stake, or sweepstake, except as provided by the printed rules of the society or association under which such…

The class to which a horse belongs for an entry in a contest of speed shall be determined by its public performance in former contests or trials of speed, as provided by the printed rules of the society or association under which such contest is advertised to be conducted.

(A) To encourage the renovation of existing racing facilities for the benefit of the public, breeders, and horse owners and to increase the revenue to the state from the increase in pari-mutuel wagering resulting from such improvement, the taxes paid by a permit holder to the sta…

The holder of a permit issued under section 3769.06 of the Revised Code may apply to the state racing commission for the tax reduction available under section 3769.20 of the Revised Code for the cost to the permit holder of any cleanup, repair, or improvement required as a result…

(A) A corporation may be formed pursuant to Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code to establish a thoroughbred horsemen's health and retirement fund and a corporation may be formed pursuant to Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code to establish a harness horsemen's health and retirement fu…

(A) The general assembly finds and declares all of the following:(1) A national racing compact, comprised of states that are party to the compact, exists to provide for the licensure and regulation of individuals involved in the horse racing industry.(2) The intent of the compact…

As used in sections 3769.25 to 3769.27 of the Revised Code, unless the context requires otherwise:(A) "Simulcast" means the telecast, for wagering purposes, of audio and visual signals of live horse races conducted at facilities either inside or outside this state.(B) "Track" mea…

(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, each track in existence on September 27, 1994, regardless of the number of permit holders authorized to conduct race meetings at the track, may establish, with the approval of the state racing commission and the…

(A) If a petition is presented, not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of a general or primary election, to the board of elections of any county, signed by qualified electors of the county equal in number to at least ten per cent of the total number of votes…

Within ten days after the close of a horse-racing meeting, each permit holder who conducts a pari-mutuel system of wagering where the wagering is less than five million dollars shall remit, in the manner prescribed under section 3769.103 of the Revised Code, a sum of money equal …