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Racing Commission, Virginia

Agriculture and Forestry

Purpose

To promote, sustain, grow, and control a native horse racing industry with parimutuel wagering by prescribing regulations and conditions that command and promote excellence and complete honesty and integrity in racing and wagering. The Commission is vested with jurisdiction and supervision over all horse racing licensed under the provisions of this chapter including all persons conducting, participating in, or attending any race meeting. It shall employ such persons to be present at race meetings as are necessary to ensure that they are conducted with order and the highest degree of integrity. It may eject or exclude from the enclosure or from any part thereof any person, whether or not he possesses a license or permit, whose conduct or reputation is such that his presence may, in the opinion of the Commission, reflect on the honesty and integrity of horse racing or interfere with the orderly conduct of horse racing.

Term

Five year terms

Composition

The Commission shall be composed of five Virginia residents appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, each of whom shall have been a resident of Virginia for a period of at least three years and his continued residency shall be a condition of his tenure in office. Thereafter, all appointments shall be for terms of five years. The commission appoints an Executive Secretary.