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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="11-804" title_number="11" title_name="Horse Racing" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Pari-Mutuel Betting">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The intent of this section is similar to that of the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978, 15 U.S.C. §§ 3001 through 3007.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If the Commission approves, a licensee may contract to hold pari-mutuel betting on a race that is held at an out-of-state track where betting on racing is lawful.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Pari-mutuel betting under this section may only occur:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on a racing day when the Commission has authorized the licensee to hold racing; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>at the track of the licensee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at any track where pari-mutuel betting on races on the racing program of the licensee for that day is authorized; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>at a satellite simulcast facility.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The breakage and takeout for pari-mutuel betting under this section shall be computed in the way normally applicable to pari-mutuel betting on racing the licensee holds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>From the takeout the licensee shall deduct:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the State tax on all mutuel pools;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the amount to be paid under the contract to the out-of-state track; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the cost of transmission.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The licensee shall then allocate the rest of the takeout in the way applicable to the racing that the licensee holds.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A contract with an out-of-state track under this section is subject to the approval of the group that represents a majority of the owners and trainers who race horses at that track and the group that represents a majority of the applicable breeders in this State.</text>
  </level>
</section>
