Sec.12-574-F17. Corrupt practices and disqualification of persons

(a) Corrupt practices. The following are deemed to be corrupt practices:

(1) Giving, offering or promising, directly or indirectly, a bribe in any form to any person licensed by the board or executive director;

(2) Soliciting, accepting, or offering to accept a bribe in any form by a person licensed by the board or executive director;

(3) Failure of a licensee to notify the board of administrative judges of an offer, promise, request, or suggestion for a bribe made to the licensee or of any other improper or fraudulent practice;

(4) Willfully entering, causing or permitting to be entered, or started in a race, a greyhound which the person knows or has reason to believe to be disqualified;

(5) Offering or receiving money or any other benefit for declaring an entry from a race;

(6) Soliciting bets from the public by any one other than an association;

(7) Tampering, or attempting to tamper with any greyhound, or aiding such tampering in any way;

(8) Committing or conspiring to commit or assisting in the commission of or conspiracy to commit any improper, corrupt or fraudulent act or practice in relation to racing, jai alai or the operation of off-track betting; or

(9) Attempting knowingly to fraudulently establish the identity of a greyhound.

(b) Use of live animals prohibited. Any person licensed by the division found guilty of using or permitting the use of live animals in the training of active racing greyhounds shall be fined or their license suspended or revoked.

(c) Effect of ejection, suspension, or revocation. Anyone who has been ejected or whose license has been suspended or revoked by the division, the racing judges, the board of administrative judges or by the highest official regulatory body having jurisdiction where the offense occurred, shall be denied admission to all facilities licensed by the board until duly reinstated, or until the matter has been otherwise determined by the division.

(d) Discretion of board of administrative judges.

(1) The board of administrative judges shall have the power to declare any act which they deem to be improper, or any act which would tend to mislead the wagering public, or any act which they deem to be detrimental to the best interest of jai alai or racing, a corrupt practice and they shall have power to impose penalties, including, but not limited to fine, ejection or license suspension, and they shall report any such action to the division.

(2) If any alleged corrupt act occurs which may not be provided for in sections 12-574-F1 to 12-574-F65, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the board of administrative judges shall investigate, and they shall act upon said investigation in a manner which is just and in conformance with the integrity of jai alai or greyhound racing.

(e) Penalties. Anyone committing a corrupt practice shall be immediately ejected from the facility and subject to the attendant consequences of ejection and any other penalty permitted by sections 12-574-F1 to 12-574-F65, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies and the laws of the state of Connecticut. Ejections shall be subject to the provisions of section 12-574-F19 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies. Involvement of a licensee in a corrupt practice shall be deemed sufficient hazard to the public health, safety, and welfare to warrant summary suspension of such licensee's license pending a hearing to be held within seven (7) days of such suspension.

(f) Fraud, return of prize. When a licensee is convicted of any fraudulent practice in relation to a particular greyhound, wholly or partly belonging to said licensee, they shall return all money or prizes which such greyhound has fraudulently won.

(Adopted effective October 3, 2001)