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4-36-103 - Chapter definitions.

4-36-103. Chapter definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (1)  “Association” means, as the context requires, any person applying to the Tennessee state racing commission for a license to conduct a race meeting or any person licensed by the commission to engage in the conduct of a race meeting;

     (2)  “Breakage” means the odd cents by which the amount payable on each dollar wagered exceeds a multiple of ten cents (10¢);

     (3)  “Commission” means the Tennessee state racing commission, created by § 4-36-201 [obsolete];

     (4)  “Dark day” means a day on which the association does not conduct live racing on its track surface;

     (5)  “Enclosure” means the real property and appurtenances and improvements to real property that are contiguous or adjacent to the association's racing surface and are owned, leased or otherwise possessed by the association for purposes related to its conduct of pari-mutuel wagering;

     (6)  “Fair” means a county, district or division fair, as defined in § 43-21-104, that qualifies for state aid grants under § 43-21-102;

     (7)  “Horse” means any type of horse, including, but not limited to, Appaloosa, Arabian, Standardbred, Quarter Horse or Thoroughbred;

     (8)  “Host facility” means the racetrack at which the race is run or the facility that is designated as the host facility if the race is run in a jurisdiction that is not participating in the interstate combined wagering pool;

     (9)  “Host jurisdiction” means the jurisdiction in which the host facility is located;

     (10)  “Interstate combined wagering pool” means a pari-mutuel pool established in one (1) jurisdiction that is combined with comparable pari-mutuel pools from one (1) or more other jurisdictions for the purpose of establishing payoff prices in the various participating jurisdictions;

     (11)  “Jurisdiction” means that governmental entity that regulates pari-mutuel wagering at the national, state, or local level in the United States, its territories or possessions, or in any other country;

     (12)  “Live race” means a horse race that is actually run on an association's track;

     (13)  “Municipality” means any incorporated municipality having a population greater than one hundred thousand (100,000) according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census;

     (14)  “Person” means any individual, association, partnership, joint venture, corporation, governmental entity or instrumentality thereof, or any other organization or entity;

     (15)  “Premises” means any real property and the appurtenances and improvements to real property that are owned, leased or otherwise possessed by the association for purposes related to its conduct of pari-mutuel wagering;

     (16)  “Public employee” means any individual who receives compensation from the state or any political subdivision thereof or any public governmental authority or corporation established for the performance of public functions;

     (17)  “Public official” means an elected or appointed person in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the state or any political subdivision thereof;

     (18)  “Race meeting” means the whole period of time, whether consecutive dates or otherwise, for which an association has been granted a license by the commission;

     (19)  “Satellite teletheater” or “satellite simulcast teletheater” means a facility, operated by an association that has been granted a race meeting license, at a location separate from the enclosure for the purpose of displaying and accepting wagers on simulcast races. A satellite teletheater shall have amenities similar in quality to the association's grandstand and clubhouse facilities;

     (20)  “Simulcast race” means, according to the context, either the broadcast from an association of a live race, simultaneously with its running, or the receipt by an association of a broadcast of a race conducted at a track in the United States, simultaneously with its running; and

     (21)  “Take-out” means that portion of a wager that is deducted from or not included in the pari-mutuel pool, and that is distributed to persons other than those placing wagers.

[Acts 1987, ch. 311, § 3; 1993, ch. 248, § 1; 1996, ch. 1080, § 1.]