Section 426. Disposition of unpaid money due on account of pari-mutuel tickets not presented  


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  • The sum held by any  corporation  or  association
      authorized  to  conduct  pari-mutuel  betting for payment of outstanding
      winning pari-mutuel tickets and for refunding the price  of  pari-mutuel
      tickets  shall  be  retained by such corporation or association for such
      purposes until April first of the succeeding  year;  provided,  however,
      that  ninety-five  per  centum of such sum remaining unclaimed as of the
      last day of February of such  year  shall  be  paid  to  the  state  tax
      commission  by  March fifteenth. On April tenth, the balance of such sum
      remaining unclaimed and any  other  unclaimed  amount  received  in  the
      course  of conducting pari-mutuel betting shall be paid to the state tax
      commission. A penalty of five per centum and interest at the rate of one
      per centum per month from the due date to the date  of  payment  of  the
      unclaimed  balance  due  March fifteenth or April tenth, as the case may
      be, shall be payable in the case such balance is not paid when due. Such
      amounts, interest and penalties when collected  shall  be  paid  by  the
      state tax commission into the general fund of the state treasury.