Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                   145

Article 78B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition and
1955 Supplement), title "Racing Commission", be and they are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments; and that a new
sub-section be and it is hereby added to Section 19 of said Article,
to follow immediately after sub-section (C), and to be known as sub-
section (D) thereof, all to read as follows:

7. (a) Any person or persons, association or corporation, desir-
ing to conduct racing within the State of Maryland during any
calendar year, shall apply to the Maryland Racing Commission for
a license so to do. Such application shall be filed with the Secretary
of the Commission on or before a day to be fixed by the Commis-
sion. Such application shall specify the days on which such racing
is desired to be conducted or held, and such application shall be in
such form and supply such data and information as the said Mary-
land Racing Commission shall prescribe.

(b)   Said Racing Commission shall, as soon as practicable during
nineteen hundred and forty-three (1943 and on or before the first
day of March of each year thereafter, award all dates for racing in
the State of Maryland within the current year, but the said dates so
awarded shall not exceed one hundred and

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TWENTY
(120) days in the aggregate, and the decision of the Commission on
the award of all such dates shall be final.

(c)  The Commission shall have the power to reject any applica-
tion for a license for any cause which it may deem sufficient and
the action of the Commission shall be final. No one person, corpora-
tion or association shall be given a license to conduct racing for
more than

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days in one year, nor shall more
than an aggregate of [fifty] seventy-two [(50)] (72) days racing
be held in any one year on any one track within the State of Mary-
land.

(d)  The said Racing Commission may, at any time or times, in
its discretion, authorize any person, corporation or association to
transfer its racing meet or meetings from its own track, or place
for holding races, to the track, or place for holding races, of any
other person, corporation or association now conducting racing in
the State of Maryland upon payment of any and all appropriate
license fees for the conduct of racing at the particular track, or place
for holding races, on which the racing is to be conducted; provided,
however, that no such authority to transfer shall be granted without
the express consent of the person, corporation or association owning
or leasing the track to which such transfer is made, but nothing in
this section shall affect in any manner the license fees, requirements,
rights, conditions, terms and provisions of Section 8 of this Article;
provided, further, that the Commission shall issue no license nor
award any dates for racing on any tracks or places for holding races
in Maryland, unless on such tracks or places for holding races, races
have been run or held at least once in every year for a period of
three consecutive years immediately prior to May 6, 1943, it being
the intent, purpose and effect of this section to insure that no new
or additional tracks or places for holding or conducting races shall
be licensed or awarded dates; provided, however, that if the Mary-
land Jockey Club, the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association,
or the Maryland State Fair, Inc. [or the Harford Agricultural and
Breeders' Association], respectively, shall permanently abandon for
racing purposes the Pimlico Track, the Bowie Track, or the Laurel