N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9 § 4045.4

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 25, June 18, 2024

Section 4045.4 - Administrative action

The commission shall take the following administrative action after a final adjudication of the commission establishes that a licensee has committed a precipitating equine drug rule violation in New York:

(a) The commission shall calculate the points applicable to such licensee to determine whether to take any further administrative action pursuant to this Part.

(1) A licensee may be mailed a letter advising such licensee of the status of the equine drug violation record of such licensee and any possible future action that may be taken in the event of such licensee's accumulation of additional points.

(2) Although point values shall be assigned as of the date of each violation, the commission shall not initiate a suspension pursuant to this Part until after the final adjudication of an equine drug rule violation for which points are assigned pursuant to this Part.

(3) When a precipitating equine drug rule violation results in the licensee having accumulated five or more points based on final adjudications of equine drug rule violations, the commission shall find that a licensee is a habitual or persistent equine drug rule violator.

(b) The Director of the Division of Horse Racing and Pari-Mutuel Wagering shall suspend the occupational licenses of a habitual or persistent equine drug rule violator, at a minimum, as follows:

(1) if the licensee has accumulated 5 to 5.5 points as a result of equine drug rule violations, a suspension of 15 days;

(2) if the licensee has accumulated 6 to 8.5 points as a result of equine drug rule violations, a suspension of 30 days;

(3) if the licensee has accumulated 9 to 10.5 points as a result of equine drug rule violations, a suspension of 90 days; and

(4) if the licensee has accumulated 11 or more points as a result of equine drug rule violations, a suspension of 180 days.

(c) Such license suspensions shall in no way affect any administration action taken under any other provision of this Subchapter, including the imposition of a penalty for the precipitating or other equine drug rule violation in New York.

(d) The Director of the Division of Horse Racing and Pari-Mutuel Wagering, on behalf of the commission, may proportionately reduce such suspension, however, when convinced by clear and convincing evidence that the commission had already enhanced, based on one or more of the predicate equine drug rule violations, the penalty imposed on the licensee for the precipitating equine drug rule violation. The Director may also impose a suspension before there has been a final adjudication of one or more of the predicate equine drug violations, when points assessed for matters that have been finally adjudicated suffice to impose a suspension pursuant to this Part; the balance of any suspension shall be imposed upon additional final adjudications.

(e) The State Steward may, when authorized by the Director of the Division of Horse Racing and Pari-Mutuel Wagering, add the habitual or persistent equine drug rule violator suspension when issuing a ruling upon a precipitating equine drug rule violation.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 § 4045.4

Adopted New York State Register February 10, 2016/Volume XXXVIII, Issue 06, eff.2/10/2016

Amended New York State Register May 15, 2019/Volume XLI, Issue 20, eff. 5/15/2019