2015 New York Laws
PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Article 13 - DESTINATION RESORT GAMING
Title 4 - (1326 - 1330-A) ENTERPRISE AND VENDOR LICENSING AND REGISTRATION.
1330-A - Casino gaming expenditures.

  1330-a. Casino gaming expenditures. 1. (a) In addition to any other
  registration or reporting required by law,  any  entity  licensed  under
  section sixteen hundred seventeen-a of the tax law, or which possesses a
  pari-mutuel  wagering  license  or franchise awarded pursuant to article
  two or three of this chapter that makes an expenditure of more than  one
  thousand dollars for any written, typed, or other printed communication,
  or   any  internet-based  communication,  or  any  television  or  radio
  communication, or any automated or  paid  telephone  communications,  in
  support  or  opposition  to  any  referendum  authorized  by  the  state
  legislature following second passage of a concurrent resolution to amend
  the state constitution to permit or authorize casino gaming to a general
  public audience,  shall  file  any  reports  required  pursuant  to  the
  election law simultaneously with the gaming commission and shall provide
  such  additional  reports  as  required  by  the gaming commission. This
  requirement shall apply irrespective of whether such entity  makes  such
  expenditure  directly  or indirectly via one or more persons. The gaming
  commission shall promulgate regulations to implement the requirements of
  this section.
(b)  Casino  gaming  expenditures  do  not  include  expenditures   in
  connection with:
(i)  a  written  news story, commentary, or editorial or a news story,
  commentary, or editorial  distributed  through  the  facilities  of  any
  broadcasting  station,  cable  or  satellite  unless such publication or
  facilities are owned or controlled directly or indirectly by the  person
  making such expenditure; or
(ii)   a   communication   published   on  the  Internet,  unless  the
  communication is a paid advertisement.
(c) For purposes of this section, the term "person" shall mean person,
  group of persons, corporation,  unincorporated  business  entity,  labor
  organization   or   business,   trade  or  professional  association  or
  organization, or political committee.
(d) A knowing or willful violation of the provisions of  this  section
  shall  subject  the person to a civil penalty equal to up to one hundred
  thousand dollars or the cost of the communication, whichever is greater,
  imposed by the gaming commission for each violation.
2. A copy  of  all  communications  paid  for  by  the  casino  gaming
  expenditure,  including but not limited to broadcast, cable or satellite
  schedules and scripts,  advertisements,  pamphlets,  circulars,  flyers,
  brochures,  letterheads  and  other  printed  matter  and  statements or
  information conveyed to one thousand or more members of a general public
  audience shall be filed with the gaming commission with  the  statements
  required this article.