Sec. 12-578. Regulations governing registration and licenses. Fees. Criminal history records checks of applicants.
Sec. 12-578. Regulations governing registration and licenses. Fees. Criminal
history records checks of applicants. (a) The executive director, with the advice and
consent of the board, shall adopt regulations governing registration and the issuance
and annual renewal of licenses and payment of annual nonrefundable application fees
for the same in accordance with the following schedule:
(1) Registration: (A) Stable name, fifty dollars; (B) partnership name, fifty dollars;
(C) colors, ten dollars; (D) kennel name, fifty dollars.
(2) Licenses: (A) Owner, fifty dollars; (B) trainer, fifty dollars; (C) assistant trainer,
fifty dollars; (D) jockey, twenty dollars; (E) jockey agent, for each jockey, fifty dollars;
(F) stable employees, including exercise boy, groom, stable foreman, hot walker, outrider, ten dollars; (G) veterinarian, fifty dollars; (H) jockey apprentice, twenty dollars;
(I) driver, fifty dollars; (J) valet, ten dollars; (K) blacksmith, ten dollars; (L) plater, ten
dollars; (M) concessionaire, for each concession, two hundred dollars; (N) concessionaire affiliate, for each concession of the concessionaire, two hundred dollars; (O) concession employees, ten dollars; (P) jai alai players, fifty dollars; (Q) officials and supervisors, fifty dollars; (R) pari-mutuel employees, twenty dollars; (S) other personnel
engaged in activities regulated under this chapter, ten dollars; (T) vendor, for each contract, two hundred dollars; (U) totalizator, for each contract, two hundred dollars; (V)
vendor and totalizator affiliates, for each contract of the vendor or totalizator, two hundred dollars. For the purposes of this subdivision, "concessionaire affiliate" means a
business organization, other than a shareholder in a publicly traded corporation, that
may exercise control in or over a concessionaire; and "concessionaire" means any individual or business organization granted the right to operate an activity at a dog race
track or off-track betting facility for the purpose of making a profit that receives or, in
the exercise of reasonable business judgment, can be expected to receive more than
twenty-five thousand dollars or twenty-five per cent of its gross annual receipts from
such activity at such track or facility.
(b) The executive director shall require each applicant for a license under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section to submit to state and national criminal history
records checks before such license is issued. The criminal history records checks required pursuant to this subsection shall be conducted in accordance with section 29-17a.
(1972, P.A. 187, S. 14; P.A. 73-260, S. 4, 5; P.A. 75-353, S. 1, 2; P.A. 79-24, S. 2; 79-404, S. 31, 45; P.A. 82-294, S.
2; P.A. 85-15, S. 1, 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12, S. 6, 55; P.A. 96-180, S. 28, 166; P.A. 01-175, S. 4, 32; P.A. 04-44, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 73-260 added Subsec. (c) re fingerprinting of applicants; P.A. 75-353 included in Subsec. (a) a fee of
$10 for registration of kennel name; P.A. 74-24 included renewal fees; P.A. 79-404 made charges dependent upon executive
director's decision with advice and consent of gaming policy board, deleting reference to commission; P.A. 82-294 increased the fees; P.A. 85-15 specified that annual fees for licenses are "nonrefundable application" fees; June Sp. Sess.
P.A. 91-12 increased fees in Subsecs. (a) and (b) and added new Subsec. (b)(19), (20) and (21) requiring a fee for a vendor
of each contract, a totalizator for each contract and a vendor and totalizator affiliate for each contract of the vendor or
totalizator, respectively; P.A. 96-180 made technical relettering and renumbering changes to conform Subsec., Subdiv.
and Subpara. indicators with customary statutory usage, effective June 3, 1996; P.A. 01-175 amended Subsec. (b) by
adding reference to executive director and replacing provisions re fingerprinting with provisions re state and national
criminal history records checks pursuant to Sec. 29-17a, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 04-44 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to
include a fee of $200 for concessionaire affiliate, for each concession of the concessionaire, to add definitions of "concessionaire affiliate" and "concessionaire" and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2004.