19532. (a) Any association licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in the northern zone may receive no more than 35 weeks of that racing.
(b) Any association licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in the central zone may receive no more than 17 weeks of that racing, except that any association which conducts a split meeting may receive up to 20 weeks of that racing. No more than one such split meeting may be licensed in any one year.
(c) This section and Section 19531 shall not operate to deprive any association of any weeks of racing granted during 1980.
(d) This section and Section 19531 shall not operate to deprive the California State Fair and Exposition of any weeks of racing granted during the previous calendar year, and the board may continue to allocate those weeks of racing to the California Exposition and State Fair or any lessee thereof.
(e) Nothing in subdivision (d) is a limitation on the board allocating racing weeks to any private racing association as a lessee of the California Exposition and State Fair racetrack facility pursuant to Sections 19531 and 19532.
(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 380, Sec. 1. Effective September 27, 2008.)
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