PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: February 10, 1999.
Purpose: To utilize the "fast official" method of declaring a race official whereby the jockey claims foul while still mounted and on the race track.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 260-52-070 Declaring race "official."
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 67.16.040.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 98-16-104 on August 5, 1998.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
February 12, 1999
Bruce Batson
Executive Secretary
(1) The clerk of the scales shall weigh in all jockeys after each race, and after weighing, shall notify the stewards if the weights are correct. The stewards may then declare the race official. However, the commission may authorize a racing association to employ a "fast official" method of declaring a race official when a written request is received from the racing association at least 45 days prior to the opening of the race meeting. When using the "fast official" jockeys shall claim foul immediately following the running of the race, while still mounted on the race track. The association will be responsible for having an outrider or other individual situated on the race track and equipped with a communication device for relaying any objections to the stewards. Owners and trainers must claim foul directly to the stewards via telephones assigned by the association for that purpose and situated throughout the facility. No claim of foul will be considered by the stewards after a race has been declared official.
(2) Nothing in these rules shall be construed to prevent the placing judges, with the approval of the stewards, from correcting an error before the display of the sign "official" or from recalling the sign, "official" in case it has been displayed through error.
[Rules 205 and 206, filed 4/21/61.]