The commission may refuse, suspend, or withdraw licenses under the certificate system and privileges granted by it or terminate license privileges for just cause. Those things constituting just cause are:

(1) Any action or attempted action by a person contrary to the provisions of this chapter and law;

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 42-7-91

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

(2) Corrupt practices, which include but are not limited to:

(a) Prearranging or attempting to prearrange the order of finish of a race;

(b) Failing to properly pay the winnings to a bettor or to properly return change to a bettor upon purchasing a ticket;

(c) Falsifying or manipulating the odds on any entrant in a race;

(3) Any violation of the rules of racing adopted by the commission;

(4) Falsification or misstatement of fact in an application for any license issued pursuant to this chapter;

(5) Material false statement to a racing official or to the commission;

(6) Willful disobedience of a commission order or of a lawful order of a racing official other than a commissioner;

(7) Continued failure or inability to meet financial obligations connected with the licensee’s business, occupation or profession performed or engaged on the track grounds;

(8) Failure or inability to maintain properly a race track;

(9) The refusal to license, or the suspension, or the revocation of a racing license by another racing jurisdiction.

Source: SL 1978, ch 302, § 15; SL 1990, ch 339, § 5; SL 1991, ch 349, § 27; SL 2005, ch 229, § 8.