205 CMR 3.13 - Licensee: Duties, Obligations, etc
(1) No
person younger than 16 years of age shall be employed in or about the track of
any association, except as may be permitted by M.G.L. c. 149, ยง
60.
(2) It shall be the duty of
each and every licensee of the Commission and the officers, officials and
employees of said licensee to observe and enforce
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3.00. Every license to hold a harness horse racing
meeting is granted upon the condition that licensee therein named shall accept,
observe and enforce
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(3)
Each Association licensed by the Commission shall submit to the Commission a
complete list of employees ten days after the first racing day. This must
contain in addition to the names and addresses of employees, the position each
one is to fill or the duties he or she is to perform. All additions named to or
changes in the list of employees must be promptly reported to the
Commission.
(4) The Commission
shall require each Association to obtain from every person employed by them a
sworn statement, on a form prescribed by the Commission, setting forth
information regarding citizenship, place or places of residence during the past
two years and answer to any other questions the Commission may
prescribe.
(5) Each Association
shall provide and equip a first aid room within its enclosure.
(6) Each Association running a racing meeting
shall keep a separate bank account to be known as the "Horsemen's Account" with
at all times sufficient funds in such account to cover all monies due horsemen
in regard to purses, stakes, rewards and deposits. Withdrawals from this
account shall be only for such purposes and said account shall at all times be
subject to audit by the Commission.
(7) Members of the Commission and its
representatives shall have the right to full and complete entry to any and all
points of the grounds of the Associations licensed to conduct harness horse
racing in Massachusetts.
(8) Each
Association conducting racing shall before publishing submit to the Commission,
the conditions for all races it proposes to hold, together with the stake,
purse or reward, all of which shall be subject to the approval of the
Commission.
(9) Each Association
shall install at the finish line at their track, and shall adequately maintain,
two photo finish cameras, to be approved by the Commission, to automatically
photograph the finish of races. The official photographer shall furnish
promptly to the Commission a print of every photo-finish.
(10) Each Association shall install and
maintain an adequate photo patrol system approved by the Commission.
(11) Each Association shall provide that no
person shall be admitted to the stable area unless he or she is wearing an
identification badge issued to him or her by the Commission. Each person whose
duties or occupation requires his or her presence in the stable area shall wear
his or her identification badge in view at all times.
(a) Each Association shall provide that each
person whose presence in the Paddock Area or Testing Area is permitted by
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identification badge in plain view at all times while in the Paddock and Test
Area.
(b) The Commission will hold
the Association in strict accountability for full compliance with the
provisions of 205 CMR 3.13(11).
(12) No Association shall permit bets to be
made on the grounds on any race run outside said grounds except for simulcasts
authorized and approved by the Gaming Commission.
(13) No gambling device, other than permitted
by law, shall be permitted on the grounds. Petty games of chance are
prohibited.
(14) During the term of
disqualification of any participant of racing, it shall be the duty of the
Association to see to it that the privileges of his or her admission badge are
revoked, and that he or she is kept out of the grounds unless otherwise
permitted to enter under certain conditions and at certain times as may be
provided for elsewhere in
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(15)
Each Association shall furnish to the Commission the names and addresses of all
persons ejected by the Association from its grounds, together with the offense
or offenses alleged against them, and any other material information relating
thereto.
(16) Any person ejected
from the grounds of an Association shall be denied admission to said grounds
until written permission for his or her re-entering has been obtained from the
licensee Association and written notification of such permission shall
forthwith be filed with the Commission.
(17) A person ejected from the grounds of an
Association licensed by the Commission shall be refused admission to the
grounds of all other licensed Associations in Massachusetts until he or she has
been permitted to re-enter the track where he was originally ejected in
accordance with the procedure provided for in 205 CMR 3.13(17).
(18) Purse Money shall not be paid to the
winners thereof earlier than 48 hours following their winning.
(19) No percentage of winnings shall be
deducted by an Association for another person, club, or body, unless at the
request of the person to whom such winnings are payable and except that an
Association may withhold from winnings any money due it.
(20) Each Association shall provide within
its grounds an office for the use and to be at the disposal of the Commission
and all its officials.
(21) The
acceptance by an Association of so called "come back money" or other wager
placed outside the enclosure of said Association is strictly prohibited. No
Association shall aid or abet the acceptance of such wagers or make any special
provision within or without the enclosure for the acceptance of such wagers or
for the encouragement of such method of wagering. An Association shall not set
up or permit the establishment of any agency within the enclosure for the
receipt of wagers made outside the enclosure.
(22) If the Pari-mutuel Manager is to be
absent from the track for a complete racing program, the Association shall
inform the Commission Accountant at the track at least % hour before post time
of the first race of the name of the person who will perform the duties of the
Pari-mutuel Manager during his or her absence.
(23) Every employee of the Mutuel Department,
who by nature of his or her employment comes in contact with patrons, shall be
designated by name or number, that easy identification may be made by the
public.
(24) No minor shall be
allowed to place or collect a wager and every employee of the Mutuel Department
shall be so instructed by the Association.
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