Article 23 - HORSE AND DOG RACING
- Section 19-23-1 - License required for horse and dog racing and pari- mutuel wagering in connection therewith; exception
- Section 19-23-2 - Permits required for horse and dog racetrack positions; residency requirements for employees of licensees
- Section 19-23-3 - Definitions
- Section 19-23-4 - West Virginia racing commission continued as a public corporation; composition; terms; vacancies; qualifications, expenses of members; principal office; meetings; election of officers; quorum; inspection of records; annual report
- Section 19-23-5 - Executive director and other personnel; qualifications; terms; powers and duties; compensation and expenses
- Section 19-23-6 - Powers and authority of Racing Commission
- Section 19-23-7 - Application for license; forms; time for filing; disclosure required; verification; bond; application for permit
- Section 19-23-7a - Applicants for licenses and permits to provide fingerprints
- Section 19-23-8 - Consideration of application for license or permit; issuance or denial; contents of license or permit; grounds for denial of application; determination of racing dates; license or permit not transferable or assignable; limitation on license; validity of permit
- Section 19-23-8a - Applications for Sunday racing; local option election procedures; protest procedures against approval
- Section 19-23-8b - Horse or dog racing after six o'clock postmeridian on Sundays; application therefor; tentative approval; publication of notice; petition for local option election; local option election procedure; effect of such election
- Section 19-23-8c - Local option election procedure; form of ballot or ballot labels; effect of such election
- Section 19-23-9 - Pari-mutuel system of wagering authorized; licensee authorized to deduct commissions from pari-mutuel pools; retention of breakage; auditing; minors
- Section 19-23-10 - Daily license tax; pari-mutuel pools tax; how taxes paid; alternate tax; credits
- Section 19-23-11 - Revenues from horse racing and dog racing to be paid into a special account to fund commission expenses
- Section 19-23-12 - License to be in lieu of all other license, etc., taxes; exception
- Section 19-23-12a - Pari-mutuel wagering on interstate and intrastate horse and dog racing
- Section 19-23-12b - Televised racing days; merging of pari-mutuel wagering pools
- Section 19-23-12c - Interstate simulcasts by licensed racetracks
- Section 19-23-12d - Simulcast races and pari-mutuel wagering at authorized gaming facility in historic resort hotel
- Section 19-23-12e - Licensing of advance deposit account wagering
- Section 19-23-13 - Disposition of funds for payment of outstanding and unredeemed pari-mutuel tickets; publication of notice; irredeemable tickets; payment of past obligations
- Section 19-23-13a - West Virginia bonus race fund
- Section 19-23-13b - West Virginia Thoroughbred Development Fund; distribution; restricted races; nonrestricted purse supplements; preference for West Virginia accredited thoroughbreds
- Section 19-23-13c - Expenditure of racetrack video lottery distribution
- Section 19-23-14 - Disposition of permit fees, registration fees and civil penalties
- Section 19-23-15 - Investigation by racing commission; suspension or revocation of license or permit
- Section 19-23-16 - Entry of order suspending or revoking license or permit; service of order; contents; hearing; decision to be in writing
- Section 19-23-17 - Judicial review; appeal to supreme court of appeals; legal representation for racing commission
- Section 19-23-18 - Horse and dog racetrack construction permits; application therefor
- Section 19-23-19 - Tentative approval of application for construction permit; denial of application; publication of notice
- Section 19-23-20 - Petition for local option election
- Section 19-23-21 - Local option election procedure; form of ballots or ballot labels
- Section 19-23-22 - Issuance or nonissuance of construction permit; duration of construction permit; transfer and assignment of construction permit
- Section 19-23-23 - Further elections restricted
- Section 19-23-24 - sections 19-23-18 to 19-23-23 inapplicable to horse racetracks already constructed and established
- Section 19-23-25 - Application to enjoin violations
- Section 19-23-26 - Offenses and penalties
- Section 19-23-27 - Repealer
- Section 19-23-28 - Effect of article on existing rules and regulations, licenses and permits
- Section 19-23-29 - Severability
- Section 19-23-30 - Repealed