Bill Text: NY S03903 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the state racing and wagering board from granting a license to any harness horse racetrack located within seventy-five miles of a harness horse racetrack already licensed for the same dates and hours except with the consent of the licensee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-11 - PRINT NUMBER 3903B [S03903 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03903-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        3903--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 9, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
         ing  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
         relation to the location of new harness tracks
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 307  of  the  racing,  pari-mutuel
    2  wagering and breeding law is amended to read as follows:
    3    4.  In considering an application for a license under this section the
    4  state racing and wagering board may give consideration to the number  of
    5  licenses  already  granted  and to the location of the tracks previously
    6  licensed. No such license shall be granted to any track  which  has  not
    7  conducted  pari-mutuel harness racing during at least ten calendar years
    8  and which is located within ten miles of a state, county  or  town  fair
    9  conducting  harness  racing  for the three consecutive years immediately
   10  preceding April second,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-three,  which  license
   11  shall  be  operative  during  the  racing dates of such fair, unless the
   12  association, corporation or society conducting such fair shall  affirma-
   13  tively  waive objection to the issuance of such license for dates within
   14  such period. No such license shall be granted to any track located with-
   15  in the corporate limits of a city of the first class.  [No] ON AND AFTER
   16  MARCH THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN, EXCEPT IN SULLIVAN  COUNTY,  NO
   17  such  license  shall  be  granted to any harness horse racetrack located
   18  within [twenty-five] SEVENTY-FIVE miles of any  track  already  licensed
   19  for  the  same  dates  and hours except with the consent of the licensee
   20  located within such  [twenty-five]  SEVENTY-FIVE  mile  area.    NOTHING
   21  CONTAINED  IN THIS SECTION SHALL AFFECT THE VALIDITY OF A LICENSE ISSUED
   22  FOR A TRACK OPERATING OR TO BE OPERATED IN SULLIVAN COUNTY OR  OTHERWISE
   23  OPERATING  MORE  THAN  TWENTY-FIVE MILES FROM ANOTHER TRACK LICENSED FOR
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09968-03-1
       S. 3903--A                          2
    1  THE SAME HOURS AND DATES, IF GRANTED PRIOR TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF  THE
    2  CHAPTER  OF  THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN WHICH AMENDED THIS SUBDIVI-
    3  SION.
    4    S  2.  This act shall take effect immediately, except that if this act
    5  shall have become a law on or after March 31, 2011, this act shall  take
    6  effect  immediately  and  shall be deemed to have been in full force and
    7  effect on and after March 31, 2011.