§ 1 This Act shall be known and may be cited as the “Illinois Horse …
§ 1.2 Legislative intent
§ 1.3 Legislative findings
§ 2 There is hereby created and established an Illinois Racing Board …
§ 2.5 Separation from Department of Revenue
§ 3 As used in this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the …
§ 3.01 “Board” means the Illinois Racing Board
§ 3.02 “Breakage” means the odd cents by which the amount payable on each …
§ 3.04 “Director of mutuels” means the individual representing the Board in …
§ 3.05 “Family” means husband, wife, brother, or sister, parents, and …
§ 3.06 “Horse racing” shall mean any type of horse racing, including, but …
§ 3.07 “Horse race meeting” or “race meeting” or “meeting” shall mean the …
§ 3.071 Inter-track wagering
§ 3.072 “Inter-track wagering licensee” means any organization licensee …
§ 3.073 “Inter-track wagering location licensee” means any organization …
§ 3.074 “Simulcast wagering” means a legal wager placed or accepted at any …
§ 3.075 (a) “Host track” means the organization licensee (i) conducting live …
§ 3.076 “Interstate commission fee” means the fee or commission paid by an …
§ 3.077 Non-host licensee
§ 3.078 “Supplemental interstate simulcast” means an interstate simulcast …
§ 3.079 “Affiliated non-host licensee” means a non-host licensee owned by the …
§ 3.080 “Simulcast program” means the program of simultaneously televised …
§ 3.08 “Minor” means any individual under the age of 18 years
§ 3.09 “Occupation Licensee” means any person who has obtained an occupation …
§ 3.11 “Organization licensee” means any person receiving an organization …
§ 3.12 Pari-mutuel system of wagering
§ 3.13 “Pari-mutuel pool” or “mutuel pool” or “pool” means the total money …
§ 3.14 “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, or other …
§ 3.15 “Public official” means a person who is a public officer, as defined …
§ 3.16 “Racing” means horse racing
§ 3.17 “Racing days” (or dates) are days within a horse race meeting on …
§ 3.18 “Executive Director” means the executive director of the Illinois …
§ 3.19 “Stewards” means the steward or stewards representing the Board, the …
§ 3.20 Licensee
§ 3.21 “Facilities” means the offices, racetracks and all related grounds …
§ 3.22 Wagering facility
§ 3.23 Wagering
§ 3.28 Advance deposit wagering licensee
§ 3.29 Advance deposit wagering
§ 3.30 Advance deposit wagering terminal
§ 3.31 Illinois conceived and foaled.Notwithstanding any provision of this …
§ 3.32 Gross receipts
§ 3.33 Adjusted gross receipts
§ 3.34 Organization gaming facility
§ 3.35 Organization gaming license
§ 4 The Board shall consist of 11 members to be appointed by the Governor …
§ 5 As soon as practicable following the effective date of this …
§ 6 Restrictions on Board members
§ 7 Vacancies in the Board shall be filled for the unexpired term in like …
§ 8 Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, each …
§ 9 The Board shall have all powers necessary and proper to fully and …
§ 10 Any Board member or Board employee who is subject to any civil action …
§ 12 (a) Board members shall employ under the “Personnel Code”, as now or …
§ 12.1 (a) The General Assembly finds that the Illinois Racing Industry does …
§ 12.2 Business enterprise program
§ 13 The executive director shall perform any and all duties that the …
§ 14 (a) The Board shall hold regular and special meetings at such times …
§ 14a The Board may employ hearing officers qualified by professional …
§ 15 (a) The Board shall, in its discretion, issue occupation licenses to …
§ 15.1 Upon collection of the fee accompanying the application for an …
§ 15.2 (a) No pari-mutuel clerk, parking attendant or security guard …
§ 15.3 Any person who makes application for an employment position as a …
§ 15.4 The Board shall take disciplinary action authorized by subsection (d) …
§ 15.5 Labor agreements
§ 16 (a) The Board shall, in accordance with Section 15, have the power to …
§ 17 No person shall hold or conduct a horse race meeting except at a …
§ 18 (a) Together with its application, each applicant for racing dates …
§ 19 (a) No organization license may be granted to conduct a horse race …
§ 19.5 Standardbred racetrack in Cook County
§ 20 (a) Any person desiring to conduct a horse race meeting may apply to …
§ 20.1 Authority of licensees
§ 21 (a) Applications for organization licenses must be filed with the …
§ 23 (a) The Board shall promulgate as part of its rules and regulations a …
§ 24 (a) No license shall be issued to or held by an organization licensee …
§ 25 Admission charge; bond; fine
§ 26 Wagering
§ 26.1 For all pari-mutuel wagering conducted pursuant to this Act, breakage …
§ 26.2 In addition to the amount retained by licensees pursuant to Section …
§ 26.3 On and after July 1, 1987, each organization licensee may impose a …
§ 26.4 In addition to the amount retained pursuant to paragraph (10) of …
§ 26.5 Inter-track wagering licensee surcharge
§ 26.7 Advance deposit wagering surcharge
§ 26.8 Beginning on February 1, 2014, each wagering licensee may impose a …
§ 26.9 Beginning on February 1, 2014, in addition to the surcharge imposed …
§ 27 (a) In addition to the organization license fee provided by this Act, …
§ 27.2 Withholding of delinquent child support
§ 28 Except as provided in subsection (g) of Section 27 of this Act, …
§ 28.1 Payments
§ 29 (a) After the privilege or pari-mutuel tax established in Sections …
§ 30 (a) The General Assembly declares that it is the policy of this State …
§ 30.5 Illinois Racing Quarter Horse Breeders Fund
§ 31 (a) The General Assembly declares that it is the policy of this State …
§ 31.1 (a) Unless subsection (a-5) applies, organization licensees …
§ 31.2 Automated external defibrillators
§ 32 Illinois Race Track Improvement Fund
§ 32.1 Pari-mutuel tax credit; statewide racetrack real estate equalization
§ 33.1 (a) The Department of Agriculture shall be responsible for …
§ 34 (a) The Illinois State Police shall enforce the racing statutes of …
§ 34.1 Compulsive gambling
§ 34.2 Withholding of delinquent child support; signs; statement
§ 34.3 Drug testing
§ 35 Any person holding or conducting any meeting within the State at …
§ 36 (a) Whoever administers or conspires to administer to any horse a …
§ 36a (a) It is recognized that there are horses which exhibit symptoms of …
§ 37 (a) It shall be unlawful for any person: …
§ 38 (a) It is unlawful for any person knowingly to enter or cause to be …
§ 39 (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage directly or …
§ 39.1 (a) No person shall, directly or indirectly, accept anything of value …
§ 40 (a) The imposition of any fine or penalty provided in this Act shall …
§ 41 Article 28 of the Criminal Code of 2012, and all other Acts or parts …
§ 42 (a) Except as to the distribution of monies provided for by Sections …
§ 43 Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the use of any …
§ 44 Nothing in this Act applies to any other method or manner of racing …
§ 45 It shall be the duty of the Attorney General and the various State’s …
§ 46 All final decisions of the Board hereunder shall be subject to …
§ 47 If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person …
§ 49 The General Assembly declares that it is the policy of this State to …
§ 51 (a) (Blank)
§ 54.75 Horse Racing Equity Trust Fund
§ 55 Study concerning account wagering and fixed odds wagering
§ 56 Gaming pursuant to an organization gaming license

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 230 ILCS 5 - Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • board: means the board of trustees of a museum district. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-31003
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Circuit clerk: means clerk of the circuit court. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.26
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • development of real property: means the construction, installation, planting or creation of any permanent improvement of real property in which a museum district has or has taken steps to acquire an interest. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-31003
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • En banc: In the bench or "full bench." Refers to court sessions with the entire membership of a court participating rather than the usual quorum. U.S. courts of appeals usually sit in panels of three judges, but may expand to a larger number in certain cases. They are then said to be sitting en banc.
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Expressways: means streets, avenues, roads and drives constituting limited access roadways, with all auxiliary streets, avenues, roads, drives, bridges, viaducts, underpasses, and approaches for ingress and egress to and from the main thoroughfares of such streets, avenues, roads and drives, and other necessary or appropriate appurtenances thereto, to facilitate the movement of through traffic, to be constructed in accordance with the resolutions of the Board of Commissioners heretofore or hereafter approved by the Department of Public Works and Buildings or the Department of Transportation of the State of Illinois and in accordance with the provisions of Section 15d of "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges" approved June 27, 1913, as amended or Section 5-403 of the "Illinois Highway Code" as the same may from time to time be amended. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-34008
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Heretofore: means any time previous to the day on which the statute takes effect; and the word "hereafter" at any time after such day. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.17
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
  • Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Municipalities: has the meaning established in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.27
  • museum district: means a museum district organized under this Division. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-31003
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • political party: means a political party as defined in Section 7-2 of The Election Code. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-31003
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • superhighways: means streets, avenues, roads and drives constituting limited access roadways, with all auxiliary streets, avenues, roads, drives, bridges, viaducts, underpasses, and approaches for ingress and egress to and from the main thoroughfares of such streets, avenues, roads, and drives, and other necessary or appropriate appurtenances thereto, to facilitate the movement of through traffic, to be constructed in accordance with the resolutions of the County Board heretofore or hereafter approved by the Department of Public Works and Buildings or the Department of Transportation of the State of Illinois. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-33007
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • trustee: means a trustee of a museum district. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 55 ILCS 5/5-31003
  • Units of local government: has the meaning established in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.28
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.