205 CMR 5.27 - Licensed Association
(1) No person under
the age of 16 years shall be employed in or about the track of any
association.
(2) It shall be the
duty of each and every Association licensed by the Commission and the officers,
officials and employees of said Association to observe and enforce
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5.00. Every license to hold a race meeting is granted
upon the condition that the Association therein named shall accept, observe and
enforce
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5.00.
(3)
Each Association shall provide and equip a first aid room within its
enclosure.
(4) Each Association
conducting a greyhound racing meeting shall keep a separate bank account to be
known as the "Kennel Owners' Account" with at all times sufficient funds in
such account to cover all monies due greyhound owners 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.
(5) 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 greyhound racing in Massachusetts. Every kennel that is licensed by the
Racing Commission is subject at reasonable times to inspection by the Racing
Commission or their designees.
(6)
(a) Each Association shall have a "mirror
image" installed in connection with the photo-finish camera.
(b) Each Association shall provide that no
person shall be admitted to the Kennel area unless he is wearing an
identification badge issued to him by the Commission. Each person whose duties
or occupation requires their presence in the Kennel area shall wear his
identification badge in view at all times.
The Commission will hold the Association to strict accountability for full compliance with the provisions of 205 CMR 5.27(6)(b).
(c) Any
licensed person who allows another to use his or her license identification
card or badge or any person who used the license identification card or badge
of another person for the purpose of transferring any of the benefits
pertaining thereto may be suspended, assessed a forfeiture, or both.
(7) 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.
(8) No Association shall permit on its
grounds any betting or other operation in contravention of any law of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts or of the United States.
(9) Hand booking shall be prohibited on the
grounds and its operators shall be excluded therefrom.
(10) During the term of disqualification of
any participant in racing, it shall be the duty of the Association to see to it
that the privileges of his admission badge are revoked, and that he 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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(11)
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.
(12) Any person ejected
from the grounds of an Association shall be denied admission to said grounds
until written permission for his re-entering has been obtained from the
Association and written notification of such permission shall forthwith he
filed with the Commission.
(13) 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 has been permitted to re-enter the race where he was
originally ejected in accordance with the procedure provided for in 205 CMR
5.27(12).
(14) Purse money shall
not be paid to the winners thereof earlier than 48 hours (Sundays excluded)
following their winning.
(15) No
percentage of winnings shall be deducted by an Association for itself or 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 the
winnings any money due it.
(16)
Each Association shall provide within its grounds an adequate office for the
use and to be at the disposal of the Commission and all of its
officials.
(17) Each Association
licensed by the Commission shall notify the Commission prior to the opening of
the meeting of the name of the person or persons who will make the selections
as they appear in the program. Any change in the person or persons designated
by the Association shall be promptly reported to the Commission.
(18) 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 ½ hour before
post time for the first race of the name of the person who will perform the
duties of the Pari-mutuel Manager during his absence.
(19) Every employee of the Pari-mutuel
Department, who, by nature of his employment comes in contact with patrons,
shall be designated by name or number, that easy identification may be made by
the public.
(20) No minor shall be
allowed to place or collect a wager and every employee of the Pari-mutuel
Department shall be so instructed by the Association.
(21) Each Association shall provide signs
reading "NO RACE" and "REFUND" placed in a prominent position, readable to the
public attending, to be displayed when the Judges have ruled "No
Race."
(22) Each Association shall
keep and maintain during its meeting a card index system of identification of
each greyhound racing for the Association. The cards shall show the name of the
owner, authorized agent and trainer, breeding, weight, color, sex and the
characteristic markings and scars and other identification features not above
named. The cards shall be completed and filled out by the Paddock
Judge.
(23) It shall be the duty of
each Association to install and maintain in good working order a suitable
telephone system between the Judges' Stand and the office of the Pari-mutuel
plant, the Odds Board, the Paddock Office and the Lure Operator's
tower.
(24) Each Association shall
print or cause to be printed in heavy type in a conspicuous place in its
printed program all of
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and may post printed copies of
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about the track in such places as it may
deem advisable.
(25) It shall be
the duty of each Association to see that all owners, authorized agents,
trainers and assistant trainers, are licensed before any greyhound in which
they hold interest or which they train is allowed to race and it shall be the
duty of each Association to see that the application for license is filed and
the prescribed fee is paid to the Commission.
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