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providing that licensees as a condition precedent to receiving a
license agree to pay the actual reasonable expenses and compen-
sation for additional employees in connection with which they are
utilized or employed.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 5(a) of Article 78B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume), title "Racing Commission," subtitle
"In General," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

5.

(a) The salaries of the Commission, of its secretary and of its
stenographers and clerks shall be as in the budget provided. In addi-
tion to the employees of the Commission, whose salaries are provided
for in the budget, the Commission is authorized to employ at reason-
able compensation, a reasonable number of inspectors, guards, ex-
perts, scientists, auditors, veterinarians, and other employees or
agents deemed by the Commission to be essential at or in connection
with any race meeting to the best interests of racing (hereinafter
referred to as "additional employees,") and is further authorized to
maintain a testing laboratory and to purchase supplies and equip-
ment for and in connection with such laboratory or other tests or
testing processes. The expenses of such laboratory or other testing
process and of the supplies and equipment needed in connection with
either shall be paid by all licensees licensed in any calendar year
under this article in the ratio which the number of days of racing
conducted by such licensee bears to the whole number of days of
licensed racing, with betting privileges, held in this State during
such year. The compensation of such additional employees shall be.
paid by the licensee of the race meeting in connection with which
they are utilized or employed. Each licensee as a condition precedent
to the privilege of receiving a license under this article shall be
deemed to have agreed that it will pay the actual reasonable expenses
and compensation for such additional employees, [such expenses
and compensation; provided, however, that no licensee licensed under
the provisions of Section 7 or Section 15 of this article shall be
asked or required to pay more under this subsection than one thou-
sand dollars ($1,000) per day of racing as awarded by the Racing
Commission and that no licensee licensed under the provisions of
Section 17 of this article authorized to carry on betting shall be
asked or required to pay more under this subsection than the actual
reasonable amount of such expense and compensation.]

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved May 24, 1971.

CHAPTER 730
(House Bill 987)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, without change, Sections 6 and 7 of
Chapter 403 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1969, as