RULE NO: RULE TITLE
61D-7.020: Pari-Mutuels
61D-7.025: Totalisator Performance Bond or Insurance Contract Requirement
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The purpose and effect of the proposed rule will be to amend the Division’s rules regarding foreign wagers and to create a new rule regarding totalisator performance bond or insurance contract requirements.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: The subject areas to be addressed in this rule are: Conversion to United States Dollars of foreign wagers that are commingled with Florida on-track pari-mutuel pools; and the format of the surety bonds required of all totalisator companies.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 550.0251(3), (7), 550.105(2)(b), 550.155(1), 550.3551(10), 550.495(2), (4), 550.6305(5) FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 550.0251, 550.0425, 550.105, 550.155, 550.495, 550.70 FS.
IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
TIME AND DATE: January 23, 2007, 10:00 a.m. – Noon
PLACE: Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Northwood Centre, Board Room, 1940 N. Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Mary Polombo, Clerk, Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering, 1940 North Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1035
Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this program, please advise the Department at least 5 calendar days before the program by contacting Mary Polombo at (850)413-0750. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Dual Party Relay System by calling (800)955-8770 (Voice) or (800)955-8771 (TDD).

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE FROM THE CONTACT PERSON LISTED ABOVE.