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    § 207. License for running races, steeplechases and hunt meetings. Any
  corporation  or  association  desiring  to  obtain  the  benefits of the
  provisions of section two hundred four of this chapter, if proposing  to
  conduct   a   race   course   or  race  meeting  for  running  races  or
  steeplechases, may annually apply to the state racing and wagering board
  for a license to conduct running races and  race  meetings  or  steeple-
  chases  and  steeplechase  meetings, as the case may be. In addition the
  board is authorized to grant a "mixed meeting" license to a track in the
  Catskill region to conduct up  to  six  thoroughbred  races  per  racing
  program  in  conjunction  with at least three quarter horse races within
  such program conducted pursuant to a license granted for  such  purposes
  pursuant to article four of this chapter, all such thoroughbred races to
  be  completed  prior to eight o'clock post meridian. In order to qualify
  initially for such  mixed  meeting  license,  the  licensee  must  apply
  therefor  prior to June first, nineteen hundred ninety-three. To qualify
  for such license thereafter, the licensee must have conducted  at  least
  one  hundred  such  programs  during  the prior license year. If, in the
  judgment of such board the public  interest,  convenience  or  necessity
  will  be  served  thereby  and  a  proper  case for the issuance of such
  license is shown consistent with the purposes of this  article  and  the
  best interest of racing generally, it may grant such license, for a term
  within  the  calendar  year, which shall specify the dates and period of
  time during which, and the place where, the licensee  may  operate.  The
  fee  for  such  license shall be one hundred dollars for each racing day
  payable upon issuance of license. In considering an  application  for  a
  license under this section, the state racing and wagering board may give
  consideration  to  the  number  of  licenses  already granted and to the
  location of the tracks previously licensed.  Every  such  license  shall
  contain  a  condition  that all running races or race meetings conducted
  thereunder shall be subject to such  reasonable  rules  and  regulations
  from  time  to time prescribed by the board, designated as the "rules of
  racing". Before promulgating  such  rules  of  racing  or  modifying  or
  abrogating  any  of  them,  the  board  shall  give  the  jockey club, a
  corporation organized under the laws  of  the  state  of  New  York,  an
  opportunity to submit recommendations relative to such rules for running
  races  and  race  meetings,  and  to  the national steeplechase and hunt
  association, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of  New
  York,  an  opportunity  to submit recommendations relative to such rules
  for steeplechases and steeplechase meetings, and the board may adopt, to
  the extent that it deems appropriate, any rules so submitted  by  either
  of  such  corporations or by any other nationally recognized association
  or corporation which has for its purpose the improvement of the breed.
    Provided, however, that any corporation  or  association  desirous  of
  conducting  a  pari-mutuel hunt meeting only on not more than three days
  in any racing season, may, upon application to the board  therefor,  and
  in  the  entire  discretion  of such board, receive a license to conduct
  such meeting, and further provided, that the fee  for  such  pari-mutuel
  license  for a hunt meeting shall be twenty-five dollars for each racing
  day.