WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 513

Article - Business Regulation

[11-810.

(a)     (1) This section applies only to intertrack betting in which the sending track and
the receiving track are mile thoroughbred tracks.

(2) This section does not restrict pari-mutuel betting at the sending track.

(b)     The Commission may authorize intertrack betting at mile thoroughbred tracks.

(c) The Commission may authorize a track to participate in intertrack betting only if
intertrack betting has been approved for a race meeting at the sending track by:

(1)     the sending track;

(2)     the receiving track;

(3)     the organization that represents a majority of the owners and trainers who
race horses at the sending track during the race meeting when the intertrack betting is to occur;
and

(4)     the organization that represents a majority of the owners and trainers who
held races at the most recent race meeting of the receiving track.

(d)     (1) Laurel Race Course may be a receiving track only if live racing was held
there in the previous calendar year on at least 75% of the racing days available to it.

(2)     Pimlico Race Course may be a receiving track only if at least 90 days of live
racing were held there in the previous calendar year.

(3)     The Commission may waive a requirement of this subsection if the receiving
track could not meet the requirement because of:

(i) an act of God; or

(ii) what the Commission finds to be an emergency.

(e)     All intertrack betting shall be done at a receiving track.

(f)     A sending track shall transmit to a receiving track, in the way that the Commission
approves, a live simulcast of each race on which intertrack betting is authorized under this
section.]

11-811.

(A) IN THIS SECTION, "STATE FAIR SOCIETY" MEANS THE MARYLAND STATE
FAIR AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, INC.

[(a)] (B)   (1) This section applies only to intertrack betting in which:

(i) (1) the sending track [is a mile thoroughbred track or a harness
track and] is equipped to transmit simulcast races AND IS:

1. (I) A MILE THOROUGHBRED TRACK;

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