The commission may refuse, suspend, or withdraw licenses under the certificate system and privileges granted by it or terminate license privileges for just cause. Those things constituting just cause are:

1. (1) Any action or attempted action by a person contrary to the provisions of this chapter and law;

2. (2) Corrupt practices, which include but are not limited to:

   1. (a) Prearranging or attempting to prearrange the order of finish of a race;
   2. (b) Failing to properly pay the winnings to a bettor or to properly return change to a bettor upon purchasing a ticket;
   3. (c) Falsifying or manipulating the odds on any entrant in a race;
3. (3) Any violation of the rules of racing adopted by the commission;
4. (4) Falsification or misstatement of fact in an application for any license issued pursuant to this chapter;
5. (5) Material false statement to a racing official or to the commission;
6. (6) Willful disobedience of a commission order or of a lawful order of a racing official other than a commissioner;
7. (7) Continued failure or inability to meet financial obligations connected with the licensee's business, occupation or profession performed or engaged on the track grounds;
8. (8) Failure or inability to maintain properly a race track;
9. (9) The refusal to license, or the suspension, or the revocation of a racing license by another racing jurisdiction.

Source: SL 1978, ch 302 , § 15; SL 1990, ch 339 , § 5; SL 1991, ch 349 , § 27; SL 2005, ch 229 , § 8.