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fee for a license is $100 or $10 per week, whichever is higher.
The commission shall provide a booklet containing harness racing
laws and rules and relevant portions of the Maine Administrative
Procedure Act to every initial licensee and a fee not to exceed
$10 must be included in the license fee to cover the cost of
this publication. The commission shall provide necessary
revisions of this booklet to those persons renewing licenses at
the time of renewal and shall include the cost of the revisions,
not to exceed $10, in the renewal fee. The license must set
forth the name of the licensee, the place where the races or
race meets are to be held and the specific race dates and time
of day or night during which racing may be conducted by the
licensee. If the commission determines that the location where
a commercial track is licensed to conduct races is unavailable,
it may permit a licensee to transfer its license to another
location. The substitute location and the races conducted there
by the licensee must be conducted in accordance with this
chapter. Any such license issued is not transferable or
assignable. The District Court Judge, as designated in Title 4,
chapter 5, may revoke any license issued at any time for
violation of the commission's rules or licensing provisions upon
notice and hearing. The license of any corporation is
automatically revoked, subject to Title 5, chapter 375, upon the
A license issued under this section is transferable or
assignable as long as the commission finds that the transferee
or assignee satisfies all elements for the issuance of the
license being transferred or assigned.__A change in ownership,
legal or equitable, of 50% or more of the voting stock of the a
corporation and the corporation may not hold a harness horse
race or meet for public exhibition without a new license
licensed under this section constitutes a transfer of the
license.

 
Sec. 4. 8 MRSA §§296 and 297 are enacted to read:

 
§296. Fund to supplement harness racing purses

 
1. Fund created.__A fund is established to supplement
harness racing purses to which the commission shall credit all
payments received pursuant to section 923, subsection 1,
paragraph A, subparagraph (2) for distribution in accordance
with this section.

 
2. Distribution.__On May 30th, September 30th and January
30th, all amounts credited to the fund established by this
section as of the last day of the preceding month and not
distributed before that day must be distributed to each
commercial track licensed to operate slot machines under
section 911, with each track receiving that amount of the
money available for distribution determined by multiplying
that amount times a fraction, the numerator of which is the
total number of live race


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