HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                        2643

CHAPTER 499

(Senate Bill 486)

AN ACT concerning

Racing - Half-Mile Days

FOR the purpose of changing the licensees authorized to conduct
half mile horse racing in the State and the conditions for
licensing; transferring certain days of half-mile racing
from the Timonium track to the mile tracks and specifying
the conditions on the use of these days; changing certain
requirements for days of racing at mile tracks; stating the
status of half-mile racing days when run at mile tracks;
providing for annual grants to the Maryland State Fair and
to Baltimore County, subject to certain conditions and
limitations; changing the requirements for distribution of
racing revenues; authorizing the Maryland State Fair to
conduct Sunday racing under certain conditions; removing
obsolete language; making necessary corrections; and
specifying the details of transfer of certain racing days in
the State; and relating generally to half-mile racing days
and the distribution of certain revenues.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 78B - Racing Commission

Section 7(c), 15(a), and 19(a)(3) and (d), and 28

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 78B - Racing Commission

Section 7(f), 15(e), and 16(e)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 78B - Racing Commission

7.

(c) The Commission shall have the power to reject any
application for a license for any cause which it may deem
sufficient and the action of the Commission shall be final. No
one person, corporation or association shall be given a license
to conduct racing for more than ninety (90) days in one year, nor
shall more than an aggregate of one hundred and twenty (120) days