Pennsylvania Code
Title 58 - RECREATION
Part V - Harness Racing Commission
Chapter 185 - ADMINISTRATIVE RULES
Subchapter H - PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING
Section 185.164 - Payments

(a) Payments due on all wagers shall be made in conformity with the well established practice of the pari-mutuel system. The practice is to work in dollars and not in the number of tickets. Money wagered on winning tickets is returned in full plus the profits. In all cases of a winning mutuel pool, each association must redistribute not less than $2.20 on each $2.00 wager, except that in a race in which there is a minus pool, the association must distribute $2.10 on each $2.00 wager.

(b) Payments on all winning pari-mutuel tickets and tickets refundable according to rules shall be made only on presentation and surrender of the appropriate ticket. Mutilated tickets and those whose validity are questioned shall be submitted to the Department of Revenue for inspection and approval before payment.

(c) At the end of each race, the judges shall advise the manager of the pari-mutuel department and the representative of the Commission in writing of the official placement of the horses. When no mechanical or electrical indication of the official finish of the race is used between the judges and the mutuel department, no payoff shall be made until receipt of such written notice.

(d) If a horse wins and there is no money wagered on him to win, the win pool shall be apportioned among the holders of the place tickets on that horse, if any, otherwise holders of the show tickets.

(e) If no money has been wagered to place on a horse which is placed first or second in a race, the place pool for that race shall be apportioned among the holders of the place tickets on the other horse which was placed first or second.

(f) If no money has been wagered to show on a horse which has placed first, second or third in a race, the show pool in that race shall be apportioned among the holders of show tickets on the other horses which are are placed first, second or third in that race.

(g) In the event that only two horses finish in any one race the show pool shall be figured the same as the place pool and the moneys apportioned to the holders of show tickets on the two finishing horses. In the event only one horse finishes in any one race all three pools shall be figured separately as straight pools and all the monies shall be awarded to the ticket holders of the finishing horse. In the event no horse finishes the race, then the entire pool shall be refunded to all ticket holders.

(h) If two horses finish in a dead heat for first place, the money in the win mutuel pool is divided between the two dead-heaters according to their proportionate shares in the pool.

(i) If two horses finish in a dead heat for second place, the division is made as follows: there shall be allotted to the pool of the winner of the race 1/2 of the place pool and the two dead-heaters 1/2 each of the remaining half of the place pool.

(j) If two horses coupled in the betting as an "entry" or "the field" finish first and second, first and third or second and third, the division of the net show pool shall be as follows: 2/3 of the net show pool shall be allotted to the pool of the entry and the balance 1/3 to the other horse.

(k) In the event that one horse of the entry or the field finishes first or second and the other part of the entry or field finishes in a dead heat for third with another horse, the division of the net show pool shall be as follows: 1/2 of the net show pool shall be allotted to the pool of the entry, 1/3 to the horse finishing first or second, and 1/6 to the horse finishing in the dead heat with the entry for third.

(l) If the entry or field horses should finish first, second and third, the entire money in each pool goes to the entry or field tickets, no other tickets participating.

(m) If an error is made in posting pay off figures on the public board and no payments have been made, it shall be corrected promptly and a statement explaining the facts made over the public address system. In the event of an error in calculations of pay off prices which results in an under payment to the public and payments have been made to the public, the amount of the under payment shall transfer to the corresponding pool of the following race.

(n) All winning pari-mutuel tickets must be presented for payment before the first of April of the year following the year of their purchase and failure to present any such ticket within the prescribed period of time shall constitute a waiver of the right to participate in the award or dividend. After the first of April of the year following the year of their purchase, all associations shall forward to the State Treasurer all funds so held for such uncashed tickets. The Commission shall be notified by the association of the amounts so forwarded.

(o) No mutilated pari-mutuel ticket that is not easily identifiable as being a valid ticket shall be accepted for payment.

(p) No claims for lost pari-mutuel tickets shall be considered.