A. The commission shall require licenses of all bicycle racers, trainers, starters, assistant starters, pari-mutuel employees, authorized racer's or owner's agents and any other person, whether operating under his own name or a trade or assumed name, who wishes to participate, except as a spectator, in a bicycle-racing meet in this state. This license shall be known as a "general bicycle-racing license" and shall state on its face the capacity in which the licensee will participate in bicycle racing in this state. The fee for a general bicycle-racing license shall be set by the commission in an amount not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) per year. The fee shall not be prorated for part of a year.
B. The commission shall require a license for any person to hold bicycle-racing meets with pari-mutuel wagering. This license shall be known as a "pari-mutuel bicycle-racing license" and shall state on its face the time, place and duration of all bicycle-racing meets authorized by that license and the number of races allowed per day. The fee for such a license shall be set by the commission and shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for any one calendar year, regardless of the number of days of bicycle-racing meets covered by the license.
C. The commission may issue a pari-mutuel bicycle-racing license for:
(1) a bicycle-racing season; and
(2) one day, to be known as a charity day, on which day the licensee shall remit the taxes owed to the state, deduct an amount equal to the purses and the cost of conducting the racing on that day and donate the balance to nonprofit organizations engaged in charitable, benevolent or eleemosynary activities selected by the licensee and approved by the commission.
History: Laws 1991, ch. 233, § 9.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the Parental Responsibility Act, see 40-5A-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.