Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 226 - Gaming Policy, Regulation and Revenue
Section 12-578. - Regulations governing registration and licenses. Fees. Criminal history records checks of applicants.

(a) The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, governing registration and the issuance and annual renewal of licenses and payment of annual nonrefundable application fees for the same in accordance with the following schedule:

(1) Registration: (A) Stable name, one hundred dollars; (B) partnership name, one hundred dollars; (C) colors, twenty dollars; (D) kennel name, one hundred dollars.
(2) Licenses: (A) Owner, one hundred dollars; (B) trainer, one hundred dollars; (C) assistant trainer, one hundred dollars; (D) jockey, forty dollars; (E) jockey agent, for each jockey, one hundred dollars; (F) stable employees, including exercise boy, groom, stable foreman, hot walker, outrider, twenty dollars; (G) veterinarian, one hundred dollars; (H) jockey apprentice, forty dollars; (I) driver, one hundred dollars; (J) valet, twenty dollars; (K) blacksmith, twenty dollars; (L) plater, twenty dollars; (M) concessionaire, for each concession, two hundred fifty dollars; (N) concessionaire affiliate, for each concession of the concessionaire, two hundred fifty dollars; (O) concession employees, twenty dollars; (P) jai alai players, one hundred dollars; (Q) officials and supervisors, one hundred dollars; (R) pari-mutuel employees, forty dollars; (S) other personnel engaged in activities regulated under this chapter, twenty dollars; (T) vendor, for each contract, two hundred fifty dollars; (U) totalizator, for each contract, two hundred fifty dollars; (V) vendor and totalizator affiliates, for each contract of the vendor or totalizator, two hundred fifty dollars; (W) gaming employee, forty dollars; (X) nongaming vendor, two hundred fifty dollars; (Y) gaming services, five hundred dollars; and (Z) gaming affiliate, two hundred fifty dollars. For the purposes of this subdivision, “concessionaire affiliate” means a business organization, other than a shareholder in a publicly traded corporation, that may exercise control in or over a concessionaire; and “concessionaire” means any individual or business organization granted the right to operate an activity at a dog race track or off-track betting facility for the purpose of making a profit that receives or, in the exercise of reasonable business judgment, can be expected to receive more than twenty-five thousand dollars or twenty-five per cent of its gross annual receipts from such activity at such track or facility.
(b) The commissioner shall require each applicant for a license under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section to submit to state and national criminal history records checks before such license is issued. The criminal history records checks required pursuant to this subsection shall be conducted in accordance with section 29-17a.
(1972, P.A. 187, S. 14; P.A. 73-260, S. 4, 5; P.A. 75-353, S. 1, 2; P.A. 79-24, S. 2; 79-404, S. 31, 45; P.A. 82-294, S. 2; P.A. 85-15, S. 1, 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12, S. 6, 55; P.A. 96-180, S. 28, 166; P.A. 01-175, S. 4, 32; P.A. 04-44, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 158; P.A. 11-51, S. 182; P.A. 13-299, S. 78; P.A. 17-89, S. 11.)
History: P.A. 73-260 added Subsec. (c) re fingerprinting of applicants; P.A. 75-353 included in Subsec. (a) a fee of $10 for registration of kennel name; P.A. 74-24 included renewal fees; P.A. 79-404 made charges dependent upon executive director's decision with advice and consent of gaming policy board, deleting reference to commission; P.A. 82-294 increased the fees; P.A. 85-15 specified that annual fees for licenses are “nonrefundable application” fees; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12 increased fees in Subsecs. (a) and (b) and added new Subsec. (b)(19), (20) and (21) requiring a fee for a vendor of each contract, a totalizator for each contract and a vendor and totalizator affiliate for each contract of the vendor or totalizator, respectively; P.A. 96-180 made technical relettering and renumbering changes to conform Subsec., Subdiv. and Subpara. indicators with customary statutory usage, effective June 3, 1996; P.A. 01-175 amended Subsec. (b) by adding reference to executive director and replacing provisions re fingerprinting with provisions re state and national criminal history records checks pursuant to Sec. 29-17a, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 04-44 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to include a fee of $200 for concessionaire affiliate, for each concession of the concessionaire, to add definitions of “concessionaire affiliate” and “concessionaire” and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fees in Subsec. (a); pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “executive director” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “commissioner”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-299 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provision re advice and consent of the Gaming Policy Board and add reference to Ch. 54 re adoption of regulations, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 17-89 amended Subsec. (a)(2) by adding Subparas. (W) to (Z) re fee for licensing gaming employee, nongaming vendor, gaming services and gaming affiliate, respectively, effective June 27, 2017.

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