The commission shall adopt rules providing for the exclusion or ejection from an enclosure where horse or greyhound races are conducted, or from specified portions of an enclosure, of a person:
- (1) who has engaged in bookmaking, touting, or illegal wagering;
- (2) whose income is from illegal activities or enterprises;
- (3) who has been convicted of a violation of this subtitle;
- (4) who has been convicted of theft;
- (5) who has been convicted under the penal law of another jurisdiction for committing an act that would have constituted a violation of any rule described in this section;
- (6) who has committed a corrupt or fraudulent act in connection with horse or greyhound racing or pari-mutuel wagering or who has committed any act tending or intended to corrupt horse or greyhound racing or pari-mutuel wagering;
- (7) who is under suspension or has been excluded or ejected from a racetrack by the commission or a steward in this state or by a corresponding authority in another state because of corrupt or fraudulent practices or other acts detrimental to racing;
- (8) who has submitted a forged pari-mutuel ticket or has altered or forged a pari-mutuel ticket for cashing or who has cashed or caused to be cashed an altered, raised, or forged pari-mutuel ticket;
- (9) who has been convicted of committing a lewd or lascivious act or other crime involving moral turpitude;
- (10) who is guilty of boisterous or disorderly conduct while inside an enclosure;
- (11) who is an agent or habitual associate of a person excludable under this section; or
- (12) who has been convicted of a felony.
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 963 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2019.