2016 New York Laws
PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Article 2 - (Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law) THOROUGHBRED RACING AND BREEDING
247 - Racing zones.

  247.  Racing zones. There are hereby created two racing zones to be
  known as the first zone and  the  second  zone.  The  first  zone  shall
  include all of the counties in the first, second, ninth, tenth, eleventh
  and  twelfth  judicial  districts. The second zone shall include all the
  other counties of the  state.  Not  more  than  six  corporations  shall
  hereafter  be  licensed  by  the  state  racing  and  wagering  board or
  franchised by the state to conduct a race course  or  race  meeting  for
  running  races  or  steeplechases  at which pari-mutuel betting shall be
  authorized within the first zone,  and  not  more  than  three  of  such
  corporations  shall hereafter be so licensed within the second zone. The
  state  racing  and  wagering  board  shall  not  hereafter  approve  the
  incorporation of such a corporation for conducting a race course or race
  meeting  within  the  second  zone  if the location of the proposed race
  course of such corporation is within  seventy-five  miles  of  the  race
  course of another such corporation.