THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY WOZNIAK, D. WHITE AND FERLO, JUNE 20, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMUNITY, ECONOMIC AND RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, JUNE 20, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending the act of December 17, 1981 (P.L.435, No.135),

entitled "An act providing for the regulation of pari-mutuel

thoroughbred horse racing and harness horse racing

activities; imposing certain taxes and providing for the

disposition of funds from pari-mutuel tickets," further

providing for incorporation.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 203 of the act of December 17, 1981

(P.L.435, No.135), known as the Race Horse Industry Reform Act,

amended December 21, 1988 (P.L.1444, No.177), is amended to

read:

Section 203.

(c)  [No] Except as set forth in this subsection or in

subsection (d), no corporation shall have the right to conduct

any horse race meet except on obtaining a license from the

appropriate commission and at the location or locations

designated in its license or any amendment thereto or as

approved at any time by the commission as the place or places at

which it was proposed to conduct its business. This restriction

shall not apply to any corporation whose racing plant or

usefulness, in the discretion of the appropriate commissions,

shall, for any reason beyond the control of the corporation, be

totally destroyed or so substantially interfered with as to

render same unfit for continued operation. Pending the

rebuilding or restoration of its usefulness, or the making of

the required repairs to the plant or the part destroyed or

damaged, the commissions may license such corporation to conduct

its horse race meetings at any other suitable location.

(d)  A corporation may petition the appropriate commission to

relocate a racing plant from the municipality in which the

license was originally granted if the corporation has obtained

the license through any means, including through sale or a

bankruptcy proceeding, and, at the time of acquisition of the

license, the previous license holder has not begun construction

on the racing plant at the location originally authorized in the

license. The commission may grant the relocation of the license

upon good cause shown.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.