N.Y. Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law § 247: Racing zones

§ 247. Racing zones. There are hereby created two racing zones to be

known as the first zone and the second zone. The first zone shall

include all of the counties in the first, second, ninth, tenth, eleventh

and twelfth judicial districts. The second zone shall include all the

other counties of the state. Not more than six corporations shall

hereafter be licensed by the commission or franchised by the state to

conduct a race course or race meeting for running races or steeplechases

at which pari-mutuel betting shall be authorized within the first zone,

and not more than three of such corporations shall hereafter be so

licensed within the second zone. The commission shall not hereafter

approve the incorporation of such a corporation for conducting a race

course or race meeting within the second zone if the location of the

proposed race course of such corporation is within seventy-five miles of

the race course of another such corporation.