{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-19500","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 19500","heading":"","body":"(a) A jockey who agrees to exercise a racehorse shall be paid no less than the standard rate that is paid to exercise riders unless the jockey has been employed to ride that racehorse in a parimutuel race or the jockey is engaged in an official timed and recorded workout. If there is a dispute over the standard rate for exercising a horse, the steward shall determine the rate.\n(b) The board shall adopt regulations no later than July 1, 2007, consistent with existing practice of the stewards, that provide both of the following:\n(1) Establish the circumstances under which a jockey is entitled to receive a mount fee when he or she is removed from a mount prior to scratch time.\n(2) Establish the circumstances under which a jockey is entitled to receive both a mount fee and the riding fee when he or she is removed from a mount after scratch time.\n(c) The paymaster of a racing association or racing fair shall not disburse any sum from a jockey’s compensation to any person other than the jockey except with the written permission of the jockey, upon order of the board, or pursuant to a court or administrative order.\n(d) For the purposes of this section the following definitions apply:\n(1) “Scratch time” means the time designated by the purse agreement when final changes in racing programs must be made.\n(2) “Riding fee” means the amount of money, whether calculated as a percentage of the purse or by any other means, that is due to a jockey in addition to the jockey mount fee as a result of the performance of a racehorse in a race.\n(3) “Mount fee” is the fee that is paid a jockey who accepts a mount on a racehorse.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 8. SPECIAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS [18400. - 22949.92.2.]","CHAPTER 4. Horse Racing [19400. - 19668.]","ARTICLE 4.5. Jockeys [19500. - 19506.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"0955ab30cf42d7f0c1cb0d10641c2f77cf61f9477b9a9adcd85007580360f68c","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-19497","next":"us-ca/bpc-19501"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}