180.51 - Tampering with a sports contest in the first degree.

§ 180.51 Tampering with a sports contest in the first degree.    A  person  is  guilty  of tampering with a sports contest in the first  degree when, with intent to influence the outcome of a pari-mutuel horse  race:    1. He affects any equine animal involved in the conduct  or  operation  of a pari-mutuel horse race by administering to the animal in any manner  whatsoever  any  controlled  substance  listed  in  section thirty-three  hundred six of the public health law; or    2. He knowingly enters or furnishes to another  person  for  entry  or  brings into this state for entry into a pari-mutuel horse race, or rides  or  drives in any pari-mutuel horse race any running, trotting or pacing  horse,  mare,  gelding,  colt  or  filly  under  an  assumed  name,   or  deceptively  out  of  its  proper  class,  or  that  has been painted or  disguised or represented to be  any  other  or  different  horse,  mare,  gelding, colt or filly from that which it actually is; or    3.  He  knowingly  and  falsely registers with the jockey club, United  States trotting  association,  American  quarter  horse  association  or  national  steeplechase and hunt association a horse, mare, gelding, colt  or filly previously registered under a different name; or    4. He agrees with one or more persons to enter such misrepresented  or  drugged  animal  in  a  pari-mutuel  horse  race.  A person shall not be  convicted of a violation of this subdivision  unless  an  overt  act  is  alleged  and  proved  to  have  been committed by one of said persons in  furtherance of said agreement.    Tampering with a sports contest in the  first  degree  is  a  class  E  felony.