2656                                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                                        Ch. 500

improvements, payments on any indebtedness related to the
facility (including, without limitation, clubhouse and grandstand
construction) previously or hereafter incurred, and
personnel-related expenses.

(5) Each such licensee shall similarly pay a license
fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each day that races are
held, provided that the [Harness Racing Board] COMMISSION shall
authorize each licensee under this section to conduct not more
than 67 days of racing. The [Harness Racing Board] COMMISSION is
authorized, in its discretion, on or before December 1 of each
year to award an additional 54 days for racing for the ensuing
year and for calendar year 1984 and all subsequent years to award
an additional 90 days of racing in addition to the days
previously authorized. [For the calendar year 1983 only, the
Harness Racing Board is authorized, in its discretion, on or
before June 30, 1983, to award an additional 60 days of racing in
addition to the days previously awarded for 1983.] The
additional days, whether awarded under this subsection or under
any other provision of this article, constitute a license of
these days to the tracks to which the days are awarded and do not
provide any right of ownership in the days to any track or any
other person. The [board] COMMISSION may approve agreements
permitting the running of up to 30 days awarded to any licensee
at the track of another licensee under this section, except that,
if two licensees desire to run days of a licensee having a total
wager not in excess of $166,666.67 daily average on all races
conducted by it, the days shall be divided equally between them
and run under identical terms and conditions, and one-half of all
revenues derived from these days by the licensee not running the
days shall be allocated to purse money at the next meeting at
which days are run by the licensee not running the days. The
additional days of racing may be awarded under such terms and
conditions as the [Board] COMMISSION may prescribe for any
substantial alterations, additions, changes, improvements, or
major repairs to or upon the property owned or leased by any
licensee and used for the conduct of racing. However, for
calendar year 1984 and all subsequent years no more than 48 [and
for calendar year 1983 only, no more than 38] additional days of
racing may be awarded to any single licensee. The discretion of
the [board] COMMISSION on the award of all additional dates shall
be final, and the award of all dates shall constitute a license
and not a franchise.

17A.

(c) The Maryland Standardbred Race Fund Advisory Committee,
under jurisdiction of the Maryland Racing Commission, is
established and shall be a part of the Department of Licensing
and Regulation. The Committee shall consist of five members to be
appointed by the Commission, with the approval of the Secretary
of Licensing and Regulation, by June 1 of each year. The
Committee shall be selected as follows: Two members shall be
nominated by the chairman of the [Harness Racing Board]
COMMISSION, one who shall be another member of the Commission,