ORS 462.020 states: Licensing
required for race meets, persons participating in race meets and public
training tracks; licensees to observe rules and orders.
(1) No person shall hold any race meet
without having first obtained and having in full force and effect a license
therefore issued by the commission.
(2) No trainer, jockey, apprentice jockey,
horse owner, exercise rider, agent, authorized agent, jockey's agent, stable
foreman, groom, valet, veterinarian, horseshoer, steward, stable watchman,
starter, timer or other person acting as a participant or official at any race
meet, including all employees of the pari-mutuel department, owners and mutuel
managers of off-track establishments, employees of multi-jurisdictional
simulcasting and interactive wagering totalizator hubs, who work within the
State of Oregon, or has access to account information, shall participate in
race meets without having first obtained and having in full force and effect a
license issued by the commission, pursuant to such rules as the commission
shall make. The commission by rule may require other employees of a race meet
licensee who are engaged in or performing duties at the race course to obtain a
license issued by the commission prior to engaging or performing such duties.
The commission by rule may also require persons, including corporations, who
are not employees of a race meet licensee, but who are authorized to do
business at the race course, to obtain a license issued by the commission prior
to conducting such business.
(3) No
person shall operate a public training track without having first obtained and
having in full force and effect a license issued by the commission.
(4) The commission may require each licensee
to be fingerprinted and photographed as part of the licensing
procedure.
(5) Each person holding
a license under this chapter shall comply with all rules and orders of the
commission.
(6) Notwithstanding OAR
462-120-0010(4)
and ORS
462.725 subsection 3, the hub's
out-of-state employees who have access to personal identifiable information
(PII) or interact with the account holders shall have an Oregon license unless
the out-of-state employee holds a current racing and/or gaming license in a
state or jurisdiction within the United States that has completed a full
background check (including fingerprints). The jurisdiction must be verified
and approved by the Oregon Racing Commission.
(7) Notwithstanding the requirements of
subsection (2) of this section, the commission, upon receipt of a written
application for a license on forms provided by the commission, may in its sound
discretion issue a temporary license valid for a period not to exceed 10 days
pending final approval or disapproval of the written application for a
license.
Notes
Or. Admin. Code
§
462-120-0010
RC 3-2000, f.
3-27-00, cert. ef. 5-1-00; RC 2-2002, f. 3-29-02, cert. ef. 4-1-02; RC 1-2010,
f. 9-23-10, cert. ef. 10-1-10;
RC
21-2024, amend filed 08/28/2024, effective
8/28/2024;
RC
1-2025, amend filed 04/02/2025, effective
4/2/2025
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
462.250
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
462.020