01-017-1 Me. Code R. § 4

Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024

Section 017-1-4 - State Steward

There shall be a State Steward at all licensed race meets. The State Steward shall be the representative at large of the Commission at the race meets. The State Steward shall be the senior official at all meets under the control of the Commission and shall have direct supervision over all matters pertaining to such meets. The State Steward and any other representative of the Commission shall have unrestricted access to the grounds where a licensed meet is being conducted. When a State Steward is licensed as an Associate Judge or a Presiding Judge, a State Steward is the Commission's licensed designee pursuant to 5 M.R.S. §10004(6).

A State Steward may act as the Presiding Judge at a licensed race meet under the following conditions:

1. a person, association, or corporation applying for a license to conduct racing under 8 M.R.S. §271 submits a request to the Commission that a State Steward act as a Presiding Judge at all race meets for the upcoming race season that it is applying to be licensed for;

2. the request for a State Steward to act as the Presiding Judge is for the entire upcoming race season and is made concurrent with its application to conduct live racing and for race date assignments;

3. the Commission approves the request at its annual race date assignment hearing held pursuant to Chapter 19, Section 4; and

4. the State Steward is licensed by the Commission as a Presiding Judge.

01-017 C.M.R. ch. 1, § 4