(a) The Arkansas Racing Commission may provide:
- (1) That a time period be accelerated or extended; or
(2) That as a condition to the processing of an application or to the granting of an approval:
- (A) An application be supplemented in any particular and to any extent either before or after the commission has acted thereon;
- (B) An applicant or other person urging the approval or denial of an application appear personally before the commission and submit to interrogation under oath or otherwise;
- (C) Funds, securities, instruments, or agreements be placed in escrow upon specified conditions;
- (D) A transaction be in compliance with the applicable laws, rules, and regulations of any federal, state, or local governmental entity or agency;
- (E) A transaction be approved by an applicant’s board of directors;
- (F) An opinion of an applicant’s legal counsel be furnished to the commission;
- (G) An opinion of an applicant’s auditors be furnished to the commission; and
- (H) All or any portion of an application be examined or evaluated by a consultant to the commission at the expense of the applicant.
(b)
- (1) The commission has the power to delegate to its director or staff, in its order granting approval, the power to issue an interlocutory stop order.
- (2) The interlocutory stop order may be issued for any cause deemed reasonable by the commission.