Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-5-1 - Horse race track officials and backup officials; prohibited interests; responsibility; accountability; identification and approval; unavailability

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the commission, the racetrack officials at each race meet for horses shall be the following:

(1) The starter;

(2) the paddock judge;

(3) the patrol judges;

(4) the placing judges;

(5) the clerk of scales;

(6) the racing secretary;

(7) the mutuel manager;

(8) the horsemen's bookkeeper;

(9) the identifier;

(10) the general manager; and

(11) any backup to any of these positions.

(b) An individual, and any member of the individual's family as defined in K.S.A. 74-8810(c) and amendments thereto, who owns a horse or has a financial interest in a horse entered at a race meet, shall not serve as a racetrack official at the meet. A lessee or lessor of a horse shall be deemed to have a financial interest in the horse.

(c) Each racetrack official shall be strictly responsible to the commission for the performance of that official's duties and shall promptly report to the commission or the stewards any violation of the regulations of which the official has knowledge. Each racetrack official who fails to perform the official's duties shall be discharged by the stewards.

(d) Each employee of the racing and mutuel departments at a racetrack facility shall be an employee of the organization licensee and shall be accountable to the board of directors of the organization licensee. An organization licensee or facility manager licensee shall not, either by contract or agreement, diminish the organization licensee's ultimate responsibility to conduct the races and the parimutuel system of wagering. However, any organization licensee may execute a contract or agreement with a facility manager licensee that permits the delegation of day-to-day management over the conduct of races and the parimutuel system of wagering.

(e) Each racetrack official and each backup racetrack official shall be approved by the stewards and the commission before the official assumes any race meet duties. Each organization licensee shall submit a list identifying each racetrack official and each backup racetrack official to the commission at least 30 days before the first day of the race meet for which the racetrack officials are to serve.

(f) Notwithstanding the provisions of K.A.R. 112-3-19(c), if a racetrack official is unavailable or unable to serve at a particular performance, and no backup racetrack official is available to serve, the organization licensee shall appoint a substitute, subject to the approval of the stewards, to serve for that performance only.

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Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-5-1

Authorized by K.S.A. 74-8804; implementing K.S.A. 74-8813 and K.S.A. 74-8818; effective, T-112-1-19-89, Jan. 19, 1989; effective April 10, 1989; amended March 19, 1990; amended Aug. 9, 1996; amended Jan. 18, 2008.