2005 Vermont Code - § 2153. — Racing animals; drugs or devices; false names

§ 2153. Racing animals; drugs or devices; false names

A person shall not

(1) influence, induce or conspire with any owner, jockey, groom or other person associated with or interested in any stable, horse, or race in which a horse participates, or any greyhound dog or race in which a greyhound dog participates, to affect the result of such race by stimulating or depressing a horse or dog through the administration of any drug to such horse or dog, or by the use of any electrical device or any electrical equipment or by any mechanical or other device not generally accepted as regulation racing equipment;

(2) so stimulate or depress a horse or dog;

(3) knowingly enter any horse or dog in any race within a period of twenty-four hours after any drug has been administered to such horse or dog for the purpose of increasing or retarding the speed of such horse or dog;

(4) transport or use any local anaesthetic of the cocaine group, including but not limited to natural or synthetic drugs of this group, such as allocaine, apothesine, alypine, benzyl, carbinol, butyn, procaine, nupercaine, beta-eucaine, novol or anestubes or the drugs nikethamide or phenylbutazone, or hormones, within the racing enclosure, except upon a bona fide veterinarian's prescription with complete statement of uses and purposes of same on the container. A copy of such prescription shall be filed with the stewards and such substances may be used only with approval of the stewards and under the supervision of the veterinarian representing the racing commission;

(5) except for medicinal purposes, administer any poison, drug, medicine, or other noxious substance to any animal entered or about to be entered in any race or expose any poison, drug, medicine, or noxious substance with intent that it shall be taken, inhaled, swallowed, or otherwise received by any animal with intent to affect its speed, endurance, sense, health, physical condition, or other character or quality, or cause to be taken by or placed upon or in the body of any animal entered or about to be entered in any race any sponge, wood, or foreign substance of any kind, with intent to affect its speed, endurance, sense, health, or physical condition;

(6) wilfully or unjustifiably enter or race any horse in any running or trotting race under any name or designation other than the name or designation assigned to such horse by and registered with the Jockey Club or the United States Trotting Association or wilfully instigate, engage in or in any way further any act by which any horse is entered or raced in any running or trotting race under any name or designation other than the name or designation duly assigned by and registered with the Jockey Club or the United States Trotting Association. (1961, No. 185, § 3; amended 1973, No. 233 (Adj. Sess.), § 12, eff. April 3, 1974.)