2042 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 696

to issue licenses for the holding of trotting and pacing meet-
ings at which there may be offered stakes, purses or awards,
and at which there may be exercised pari-mutuel betting privi-
leges, to Baltimore Trotting Races, Inc., The Rosecroft Trot-
ting and Pacing Association, Inc., Laurel Harness Racing As-
sociation, Inc., and Ocean Downs Racing Association, Inc. and
the Commission shall have supervisory powers over such meet-
ings and those licensed in the same manner and to the same
extent, where not inappropriate, as it has by virtue of the
provisions of this Article over those licensed under the pro-
visions of Sections 7 and 15 of this Article [, provided, how-
ever, that under this section not more than one license with
pari-mutuel betting privilege shall be issued in any County
or in Baltimore City and that no such license shall be issued
hereafter in Carroll, Dorchester, Frederick, Montgomery or
Wicomico Counties].

(b) Each licensee licensed under the provisions of this sec-
tion shall at its option be permitted to avail itself of the pari-
mutuel betting privileges [heretofore] granted in this [Arti-
cle] section, retaining for its own use [6% of the money
wagered together with breakage computed to ten cents
11% of all money wagered not in excess of $2, 000, 000 and
of all money wagered in excess of $2, 000, 000 on all races con-
ducted by it during the year, and shall pay to the Racing Com-
mission for the use of the 'State within five days after the close
of the meeting held during the year [1947] 1951, and each
calendar year thereafter, an annual tax at the rate of [four
percent (4%) on money wagered] 1% of all money wagered
not in excess of $2, 000, 000 and 4½% of all money wagered in
excess of $2, 000, 000 on all races conducted by it during the
year, together with all breakage computed to ten cents (10¢),
and together with a license fee of Twenty-five Dollars ($25. 00)
for each day that races are held, provided that the Racing
Commission shall not authorize more than [one hundred days
of racing with betting privileges in any one year, and not more
than] twenty days at any one track.

(c) For the purposes of enforcing the provisions of this sec-
tion the Commission shall have and exercise all the powers con-
ferred upon it by Sections 11 and 13 of this Article.

17A. THE RACING COMMISSION MAY, AT ANY TIME
OR TIMES OF EMERGENCY OR UNFAVORABLE
WEATHER CONDITIONS, IN ITS DISCRETION, AUTH-
ORIZE ANY PERSON, CORPORATION OR ASSOCIATION
LICENSED UNDER SECTION 17 TO TRANSFER ITS
RACE MEET OR MEETINGS FROM ITS OWN TRACK, OR
PLACE FOR HOLDING RACES, TO THE TRACK OR