247 - Racing zones.

§  247.  Racing zones. There are hereby created two racing zones to be  known as the first zone and  the  second  zone.  The  first  zone  shall  include all of the counties in the first, second, ninth, tenth, eleventh  and  twelfth  judicial  districts. The second zone shall include all the  other counties of the  state.  Not  more  than  six  corporations  shall  hereafter  be  licensed  by  the  state  racing  and  wagering  board or  franchised by the state to conduct a race course  or  race  meeting  for  running  races  or  steeplechases  at which pari-mutuel betting shall be  authorized within the first zone,  and  not  more  than  three  of  such  corporations  shall hereafter be so licensed within the second zone. The  state  racing  and  wagering  board  shall  not  hereafter  approve  the  incorporation of such a corporation for conducting a race course or race  meeting  within  the  second  zone  if the location of the proposed race  course of such corporation is within  seventy-five  miles  of  the  race  course of another such corporation.