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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="11-525" title_number="11" title_name="Horse Racing" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Thoroughbred Racing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>On all races the State Fair Society holds each year, the State Fair Society may keep:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="10">
        <text>25% of each regular mutuel pool;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="10">
        <text>25% of each multiple mutuel pool on 2 horses;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="10">
        <text>25% of the money bet in the first race of the day with a multiple mutuel pool on 3 or more horses;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>14% of the money bet in every other race with a multiple mutuel pool on 3 or more horses; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>50% of the breakage.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 5 days after the end of a race meeting the State Fair Society each year shall pay to the Commission, from the State Fair Society’s share of the takeout, a 3.5% State tax on the handle for the race meeting.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>However, the State Fair Society is exempt from paying the tax on the handle for all racing days held at Timonium Race Course during the State Fair.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Commission promptly shall pay the tax collected under this subsection to the Comptroller.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>For each race that the State Fair Society holds, the State Fair Society shall allocate to purses:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>5% of each regular mutuel pool;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>7% of each multiple mutuel pool on 2 horses;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>13% of the money bet in the first race of the day with a multiple mutuel pool on 3 or more horses;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="9">
        <text>25% of the money bet in every other race with a multiple mutuel pool on 3 or more horses; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>45% of the breakage.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The State Fair Society shall allocate to the Maryland-Bred Race Fund:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>5% of the breakage; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="1">
        <text>50% of the mutuel pools.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The State Fair Society shall allocate 0.25% of the mutuel pools to the Maryland Race Track Employees Pension Fund.</text>
  </level>
</section>
