The board shall adopt rules governing, permitting, and regulating parimutuel wagering on horse races under the system known as the parimutuel method of wagering. Parimutuel wagering shall be conducted only by a person or persons licensed under this chapter to conduct a horse racing meeting or authorized by the board to conduct advance deposit wagering.

Any licensee conducting a horse racing meeting shall provide a place or places within the meeting grounds or inclosure where the licensee may conduct, operate, and supervise the parimutuel method of wagering in accordance with this chapter.

The parimutuel system of wagering shall be operated only by a totalizator or other equipment approved by the board. The board shall not require any particular make of equipment. The communications system, technology, and method used to accept wagers and transmit odds, results, and other data related to wagering shall be approved by the board.

In order to facilitate the intrastate transmission of racing programs, the board shall adopt regulations that provide for the compatibility of parimutuel totalizator systems within the state, including uniform procedures for the placing and cashing of parimutuel wagers.

No method of betting, pool making, or wagering other than by the parimutuel method shall be permitted or used by any person licensed under this chapter to conduct a horse racing meeting.

Any person within the inclosure where a horse racing meeting is authorized may wager on the result of a horse race held at that meeting by contributing his money to the parimutuel pool operated by the licensee under this chapter. Such wagering is not unlawful, any other law of the State of California to the contrary notwithstanding.

Any form of wagering or betting on the result of a horse race other than that permitted by this chapter is illegal.

laws, including, but not limited to, Chapter 57 (commencing with Section 3001) of Title 15 of the United States Code.

but not limited to, Chapter 57 (commencing with Section 3001) of Title 15 of the United States Code.

raced on a given day, then the association conducting the live racing may import those races that would otherwise be simulcast by the association that is not racing. After the usual deductions, including the portion for the racing association, the portion remaining for purses from these races shall be distributed equally for purses for harness and quarter horse

horsemen and horsewomen.

not accept wagers on out-of-state or out-of-country quarter horse or harness races commencing before 5:30 p.m., Pacific standard time, without the consent of any thoroughbred association or fair that is then conducting a live racing meeting in this state.

races over a calendar year may not exceed the total number of imported races authorized pursuant to paragraphs (3) and (4) of subdivision (a).

out-of-country harness racing from a single racetrack.

imported races per day does not apply to any of the following:

thoroughbred or fair racing being conducted in the combined central and southern zones.

thoroughbred or fair racing is being conducted in the state, a thoroughbred association or fair shall not accept wagers pursuant to this section on out-of-state races commencing after 5 p.m., Pacific standard time, without the consent of the harness and quarter horse racing association that is then conducting a live racing meeting in the County of Orange or the County of Sacramento.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a thoroughbred racing association or fair may distribute the audiovisual signal and accept wagers on the results of out-of-country thoroughbred races during the calendar period the association or fair is conducting a race meeting, without the consent of the organization that represents horsemen participating in the race meeting. Out-of-country races shall be imported under the following conditions:

may accept wagers pursuant to this section on out-of-country races commencing after 5:30 p.m., Pacific standard time, without the consent of the harness or quarter horse racing association that is then conducting a live racing meeting.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a person licensed under this chapter to conduct a horse racing meeting shall, as to any payment made to a person who has wagered by contributing to a parimutuel pool operated by such licensee, also deduct the applicable breakage, as defined by Section 19405.

A person licensed under this chapter to conduct a horse racing meeting shall hold in trust the distributions required to be made pursuant to this chapter until the funds are paid to the various distributees. These required deductions, except for those that enure to the benefit of the racing association, are trust funds and shall not be used by the racing association for any purpose other than for payment to those distributees as directed by this chapter. These funds are not the property of the racing association, but are merely held in trust for the benefit of the statutory distributees until the funds are distributed to them in accordance with this chapter. These funds shall be held in a separate depository account until they are actually distributed as provided for in this

chapter.

Any person claiming to be entitled to any part of a redistribution from a parimutuel pool operated by a licensee under this chapter, who fails to claim the money due the person prior to the completion of the horse racing meeting at which the pool was formed, may file a claim with the association issuing the person’s ticket prior to May 15 of the year immediately following the close of the horse racing meeting.

The funds that were unclaimed within the period specified under this section are designated as “unclaimed tickets” and shall be distributed in accordance with this chapter.

An association or fair may offer any form of parimutuel wagering, as defined by regulations adopted by the board, or as defined by Chapter 4, Pari-Mutuel Wagering, Model Rules of Racing, as published by the Association of Racing Commissioners International. The board may prohibit any form of parimutuel wagering if it determines that the proposed wagering would compromise the honesty and integrity of racing in the state. Each racing association or fair shall include the types of conventional, exotic, and other wagering it proposes to offer on its application to conduct a horse racing meeting.

A quarter horse racing association located in the southern zone shall display the signal and accept wagers on all races imported by, or conducted by, a harness racing association conducting racing in the northern zone. A harness racing association in the northern zone shall display the signal and accept wagers on all races imported by, or conducted by, a quarter horse racing association conducting racing in the southern zone. On those nights when both the harness racing association in the northern zone and the quarter horse racing association in the southern zone are conducting live racing, the audiovisual signal of both breeds shall be displayed and wagers shall be accepted on both breeds at each of the locations where the live racing is being conducted, and each association shall display the audiovisual signal and accept wagers on the other association’s live or imported races throughout their respective facilities, as they do when they are conducting satellite wagering during other periods of the same day. Each association shall pay the other an additional 5 percent of the amount wagered at their respective facilities on the races imported by, or conducted by, the other racing association. The additional 5 percent received by the racing association pursuant to this paragraph shall be distributed as 50 percent as commissions to the racing association and 50 percent as purses to the horsemen participating in the racing meeting. Further, satellite wagering facilities located at fairs may, but are not required to, accept an audiovisual signal on out-of-state or out-of-country races unless the facility is open for business at the time and accepting wagers on other signals pursuant to this chapter.

chapter. However, any such distribution, except for amounts payable for the support of the board and the equine drug testing program pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 19616.51, may be modified or redirected upon the filing with, and approval by, the board of a written notice that is authorized and signed by the organization representing each entity affected by the modification or redirection, including, but not limited to, horsemen’s organizations, racing associations, and fairs. If the proposed distribution modification or redirection increases or would increase the financial burden of any other organization or entity, the consent of that organization or entity shall also be obtained. This organization or entity consent provision for a distribution modification or redirection applies even if the percentage deduction is not increased pursuant to this subdivision.

consent to that initial distribution modification or redirection shall also be obtained for the extension. In the absence of the consent of all of these organizations and entities, the board shall not approve the extension.

report shall be filed within one year of initial board approval and annually thereafter if the approval is extended by the board.

the wager was placed, and distributed in accordance with subdivision (d).

reach an agreement as to the method of making such determination, the board shall determine the appropriate allocation method after a hearing on the matter.