US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    § 304. Right to hold harness race meetings and races.  Any corporation
  formed  under  the provisions of sections two hundred twenty-two through
  seven hundred five of this chapter, and any corporation  or  association
  which  shall have conducted harness horse race meetings during two years
  prior to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred forty,  and  any  town  or
  county  fair  association or other fair association shall have the power
  and the right to hold one or more harness horse race  meetings  in  each
  year  and  to hold, maintain and conduct harness races at such meetings.
  At such harness race meetings the corporation  or  association,  or  the
  owners  of  horses  engaged  in  such  races,  or  others  who  are  not
  participants in the race, may contribute  purses,  prizes,  premiums  or
  stakes  to  be  contested  for,  but no person or persons other than the
  owner or owners of a horse or horses contesting in a race shall have any
  pecuniary interest in a purse, prize, premium or stake contested for  in
  such  race,  or be entitled to or receive any portion thereof after such
  race is finished, and the whole of such purse, prize, premium  or  stake
  shall  be  allotted  in accordance with the terms and conditions of such
  race. Such meeting shall not be held except during the period  extending
  from  the  first  day  of  January  to  the thirty-first day of December
  inclusive in each year. In counties having a population of  two  hundred
  fifty  thousand  or  less,  the  state  racing  and  wagering board may,
  however, permit the holding of one or more harness horse  race  meetings
  and  the  conduct of harness races at such meetings on a day or days not
  during such period if the board is satisfied  that  a  special  occasion
  makes the holding of such meetings and the conduct of such races on such
  day  or days proper or necessary; but in no event shall such meetings or
  races be held or conducted on the twenty-fifth  day  of  December.  Such
  power  and  right,  however,  shall  not  include  the  right to conduct
  pari-mutuel betting at such harness horse race meetings except  pursuant
  to  license  granted  by the state racing and wagering board pursuant to
  sections two hundred twenty-two  through  seven  hundred  five  of  this
  chapter.