Bill Text: NY A07036 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the right to hold race meetings and races after sunset at Belmont Park, only at the main track in its current configuration, but only if such races conclude before 10:30 P.M. and only occur on Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to racing and wagering [A07036 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07036-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7036

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Racing and Wagering

        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
          relation to the right to hold race meetings and races at Belmont Park;
          and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there-
          of

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 203 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breed-
     2  ing  law,  as  amended  by chapter 18 of the laws of 2008, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 203. Right to hold race meetings and  races.    1.  Any  corporation
     5  formed  under  the  provisions  of  this  article,  if so claimed in its
     6  certificate of organization,  and  if  it  shall  comply  with  all  the
     7  provisions  of  this  article, and any other corporation entitled to the
     8  benefits and privileges of this article as hereinafter  provided,  shall
     9  have  the  power and the right to hold one or more running race meetings
    10  in each year, and to hold, maintain and conduct running  races  at  such
    11  meetings.  At  such running race meetings the corporation, or the owners
    12  of horses engaged in such races, or others who are not  participants  in
    13  the  race,  may  contribute  purses,  prizes,  premiums  or stakes to be
    14  contested for, but no person or persons other than the owner  or  owners
    15  of  a  horse  or  horses  contesting  in a race shall have any pecuniary
    16  interest in a purse, prize, premium or stake contested for in such race,
    17  or be entitled to or receive any portion  thereof  after  such  race  is
    18  finished,  and the whole of such purse, prize, premium or stake shall be
    19  allotted in accordance with the terms and conditions of such race. Races
    20  conducted by a franchised corporation shall be  permitted  only  between
    21  sunrise and sunset.
    22    2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a fran-
    23  chised  corporation  shall be permitted to conduct races after sunset at

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10901-01-3
        A. 7036                             2

     1  the Belmont Park racetrack, only  on  the  main  track  in  its  current
     2  configuration,  but  only  if  such  races conclude before half past ten
     3  o'clock post meridian and only if such races occur on Thursdays, Fridays
     4  or Saturdays. The franchised corporation shall coordinate with a harness
     5  racing  association  or corporation authorized to operate in Westchester
     6  county to ensure that the starting times of all  such  races  are  stag-
     7  gered.
     8    3.  A track first licensed after January first, nineteen hundred nine-
     9  ty, shall not conduct the  simulcasting  of  thoroughbred  races  within
    10  district  one,  in  accordance  with article ten of this chapter on days
    11  that a franchised corporation is not conducting a race  meeting.  In  no
    12  event shall thoroughbred races conducted by a track first licensed after
    13  January  first, nineteen hundred ninety be conducted after eight o'clock
    14  post meridian.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    16  deemed  repealed 4 years after the first night of racing conducted after
    17  sunset pursuant to this act; provided that the New York  Racing  Associ-
    18  ation  shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission of the date
    19  of such night of racing in order that the  commission  may  maintain  an
    20  accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws
    21  of  the  state of New York in furtherance of effecting the provisions of
    22  section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the  public  offi-
    23  cers law.