Louisiana § RS 4:157 - Race meetings; right to conduct; Sundays; minors

§ RS 4:157. Race meetings; right to conduct; Sundays; minors

A.  Subject to the provisions of this Part, any person or legal entity may conduct one or more race meetings at a track each year.  No license shall be granted to any person or legal entity for a race meet or meetings in any one parish to extend longer than one hundred and five racing days in any one year, except in a parish having a population in excess of eighty thousand or in a parish in which a race meeting is held exclusively for quarter horse races.

B.  After all monies presently or hereafter dedicated are paid, fifty percent of the balance of all tax revenues remaining shall be allocated and be paid over to the governing authority of the parish or municipality in which the racing meet or meetings are held and the remaining fifty percent of such balance of the tax revenues shall be allocated and paid over to the state treasurer for deposit in the general fund of the state.  No race or racing shall be permitted on Sundays unless the governing authority of the parish or municipality shall have first approved the same by resolution or ordinance and shall have further received the approval of the commission, nor shall minors be employed in any manner about the race track, except as jockeys, apprentice jockeys, exercise persons, grooms, or hot walkers.

C.(1)  Any minor age six or above may, with the permission of the racing association, be allowed to attend any race meeting if accompanied by a parent, grandparent, or legal guardian but in no case shall any minor in attendance be allowed to engage in wagering.

(2)  The provisions of this Subsection shall supercede any authority that the Louisiana State Racing Commission may have had to adopt rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Subsection.

Acts 1968, No. 554, §1.  Amended by Acts 1972, No. 249, §1; Acts 1972, No. 731, §1; Acts 1974, No. 679, §1; Acts 1975, No. 272, §1, eff. July 16, 1975; Acts 1978, No. 64, §1, eff. June 15, 1978; Acts 1981, No. 726, §1, eff. July 23, 1981; Acts 1989, No. 577, §1, eff. July 6, 1989; Acts 1989, No. 601, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Acts 1990, No. 672, §1; Acts 1992, No. 281, §1, eff. June 11, 1992.