TITLE XXIV
GAMES, AMUSEMENTS, AND ATHLETIC EXHIBITIONS

CHAPTER 284
HORSE AND DOG RACING

Pari-Mutuel Pools, and Distribution of Tax Thereon

Section 284:31


2024, 17:1, effective January 1, 2027, amends the chapter heading to delete "and Dog".
    284:31 Unclaimed Ticket Money. – Every person, association, or corporation conducting a race or race meet, whether live racing, simulcast racing, or historic horse racing hereunder shall pay to the state treasurer all moneys collected during the previous year of pari-mutuel pool tickets and vouchers which have not been redeemed. Such moneys shall become a part of the special fund established in RSA 284:21-j. The state treasurer shall pay the amount due on any ticket or voucher to the holder thereof from funds not otherwise appropriated upon an order from the lottery commission. Pari-mutuel tickets and vouchers which remain unclaimed after 12 months shall not be paid. On or before July 1 of every year, said person, association or corporation shall submit to the treasurer a check for any unclaimed money during the previous fiscal year, along with a gaming operator's written report for the previous fiscal year's unclaimed money, which shall itemize both the unclaimed tickets and vouchers and the unclaimed amounts therefrom. A copy of the report shall be forwarded to the lottery commission. For the first biennial year after the effective date of this section, the report shall cover both years of the previous biennium.

Source. 1935, 27:17. RL 171:19. RSA 284:31. 1957, 165:1. 1969, 42:1. 1971, 7:1. 1976, 52:3. 1990, 259:2. 1991, 4:13. 1992, 185:2. 2011, 259:1. 2013, 264:7. 2015, 276:127, eff. July 1, 2015. 2021, 66:9, eff. June 8, 2021. 2024, 297:1, eff. Sept. 24, 2024.