§ 11-808. General provisions

   (a) Effect of part. -- An employee of a receiving track is not considered an employee of the sending track because of this part.

(b) Jurisdiction of Commission. -- The Commission has jurisdiction over all intertrack betting and other activities at a receiving track to the same extent as when live racing is held at the track.

(c) Regulations. -- The Commission shall adopt regulations to carry out this part.

(d) Operations restricted to licensees. -- Only a licensee may operate a receiving track or a sending track.

(e) Pari-mutuel information. --

   (1) A receiving track shall transmit directly to the sending track all pari-mutuel information about the money bet at the receiving track.

   (2) A sending track shall incorporate this information with information on pari-mutuel betting at the sending track.

(f) Disposition of bets. -- Money bet in intertrack betting shall be:

   (1) included in the applicable mutuel pools at the sending track; and

   (2) considered as if bet at the sending track.

(g) Breakage, State tax, and takeout. --

   (1) The breakage, State tax, and takeout on all intertrack betting at a receiving track shall be computed in the way normally applicable to pari-mutuel betting on a race at the sending track.

   (2) The takeout shall be allocated in the same proportions that are normally applicable to racing held at the sending track, after deductions for:

      (i) the State tax;

      (ii) the amount to be kept by the receiving track under the simulcast agreement with the sending track; and

      (iii) the cost to the sending track of the transmission.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 78B, § 12, 30; 1992, ch. 4, § 2.