2010 Maryland Code
BUSINESS REGULATION
TITLE 11 - HORSE RACING
Subtitle 8 - Pari-Mutuel Betting
Section 11-808 - General provisions.

§ 11-808. General provisions.
 

(a)  Effect of part.- An employee of a receiving track is not considered an employee of the sending track because of this part. 

(b)  Jurisdiction of Commission.- The Commission has jurisdiction over all intertrack betting and other activities at a receiving track to the same extent as when live racing is held at the track. 

(c)  Regulations.- The Commission shall adopt regulations to carry out this part. 

(d)  Operations restricted to licensees.- Only a licensee may operate a receiving track or a sending track. 

(e)  Pari-mutuel information.-  

(1) A receiving track shall transmit directly to the sending track all pari-mutuel information about the money bet at the receiving track. 

(2) A sending track shall incorporate this information with information on pari-mutuel betting at the sending track. 

(f)  Disposition of bets.- Money bet in intertrack betting shall be: 

(1) included in the applicable mutuel pools at the sending track; and 

(2) considered as if bet at the sending track. 

(g)  Breakage, State tax, and takeout.-  

(1) The breakage, State tax, and takeout on all intertrack betting at a receiving track shall be computed in the way normally applicable to pari-mutuel betting on a race at the sending track. 

(2) The takeout shall be allocated in the same proportions that are normally applicable to racing held at the sending track, after deductions for: 

(i) the State tax; 

(ii) the amount to be kept by the receiving track under the simulcast agreement with the sending track; and 

(iii) the cost to the sending track of the transmission. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 78B, §§ 12, 30; 1992, ch. 4, § 2.]