Section 522. Suspension of approval

1. The board may suspend its approval
  of any plan of operation if  the  regional  corporation  whose  plan  of
  operation has been approved or its officers or directors fail to conduct
  off-track  pari-mutuel  betting  on  horse  races in accordance with the
  provisions of the plan of operation, with the applicable  rules  of  the
  board  or  with the provisions of this article, article five and article
  six of this chapter, as the case may be; or if such corporation  or  its
  officers  or  directors  shall  knowingly  permit on any of its premises
  lotteries, pool-selling or bookmaking or any other kind of gambling,  in
  violation of this chapter or of the penal law. Suspension shall continue
  for  the period necessary to remedy the situation or condition requiring
  such suspension.
    2. If the board shall determine to suspend approval  of  any  plan  of
  operation  it shall give the regional corporation involved notice of the
  time and place for a hearing before the board, at which the  board  will
  hear  such  regional  corporation  in  reference  thereto. The board may
  continue such hearing from time to  time  for  the  convenience  of  all
  parties.  Any of the parties affected by such hearing may be represented
  by counsel, and the board may be represented by its own  counsel  or  by
  the attorney general. In the conduct of such hearing the board shall not
  be bound by technical rules of evidence, but all evidence offered before
  the  board  shall be reduced to writing, and such evidence together with
  the exhibits, if any, and the findings of the board shall be permanently
  preserved and shall constitute the record of the  board  in  such  case.
  Within  thirty  days  after  such  hearing, the board shall make a final
  determination. Such hearing may be presided over by the  chairperson  of
  the  board or by any member or an officer of the board designated by the
  chairperson in writing to act as hearing  officer  and  such  person  or
  persons  may  issue  subpoenas  for  witnesses  and  administer oaths to
  witnesses. The hearing officer, at the conclusion of the hearing,  shall
  make  findings which, if concurred in by two members of the board, shall
  become the findings of the board. If it determines that such approval be
  suspended, it shall make an order  accordingly,  and  shall  cause  such
  order  to  be  entered  on its minutes and a copy thereof served on such
  regional corporation.  The  action  of  the  board  in  suspending  such
  approval shall be reviewable in the supreme court in the manner provided
  by the provisions of article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and
  rules.
    3.  The  board  may  suspend  approval  of any plan of operation for a
  reason set forth in subdivision one of this section as of  the  delivery
  to  the  regional  corporation  of  the  notice  of  hearing required by
  subdivision two of this section pending final determination of the board
  following the hearing; provided, however, that no suspension of approval
  pursuant to this subdivision shall be for a period  longer  than  twenty
  days.