2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title K - OFFENSES INVOLVING FRAUD
Article 180 - (180.00 - 180.57) BRIBERY NOT INVOLVING PUBLIC SERVANTS, AND RELATED OFFENSES
180.51 - Tampering with a sports contest in the first degree.


NY Penal L § 180.51 (2012) What's This?
 
  § 180.51 Tampering with a sports contest in the first degree.
    A  person  is  guilty  of tampering with a sports contest in the first
  degree when, with intent to influence the outcome of a pari-mutuel horse
  race:
    1. He affects any equine animal involved in the conduct  or  operation
  of a pari-mutuel horse race by administering to the animal in any manner
  whatsoever  any  controlled  substance  listed  in  section thirty-three
  hundred six of the public health law; or
    2. He knowingly enters or furnishes to another  person  for  entry  or
  brings into this state for entry into a pari-mutuel horse race, or rides
  or  drives in any pari-mutuel horse race any running, trotting or pacing
  horse,  mare,  gelding,  colt  or  filly  under  an  assumed  name,   or
  deceptively  out  of  its  proper  class,  or  that  has been painted or
  disguised or represented to be  any  other  or  different  horse,  mare,
  gelding, colt or filly from that which it actually is; or
    3.  He  knowingly  and  falsely registers with the jockey club, United
  States trotting  association,  American  quarter  horse  association  or
  national  steeplechase and hunt association a horse, mare, gelding, colt
  or filly previously registered under a different name; or
    4. He agrees with one or more persons to enter such misrepresented  or
  drugged  animal  in  a  pari-mutuel  horse  race.  A person shall not be
  convicted of a violation of this subdivision  unless  an  overt  act  is
  alleged  and  proved  to  have  been committed by one of said persons in
  furtherance of said agreement.
    Tampering with a sports contest in the  first  degree  is  a  class  E
  felony.

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