| 1 | Representative Prieguez offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | On page 3, between lines 13 and 14, insert: |
| 5 | Section 3. The failure of the holder of any type pari- |
| 6 | mutuel permit, including but not limited to a jai alai permit, |
| 7 | to operate or to have operated performances or the failure of |
| 8 | such facility to have paid sales, admissions or other taxes that |
| 9 | would have been otherwise due if performances had been conducted |
| 10 | by the facility, shall not affect the validity of or subject the |
| 11 | permit to forfeiture or a taking by the state or subject the |
| 12 | holder of such permit to fine or discipline for failure to have |
| 13 | operated at the facility prior to the effective date of this |
| 14 | act. Any permitholder who has been issued a license to operate |
| 15 | and who fails to operate performances on the dates specified in |
| 16 | the application for which a license has been issued may be |
| 17 | subject to fine or discipline after the effective date of this |
| 18 | act. However, a permitholder shall not be subject to fine or |
| 19 | discipline nor shall the validity of the permit be affected if |
| 20 | the permitholder makes an irrevocable election not to operate |
| 21 | which is properly filed with the division at least 14 days |
| 22 | before the time that the division must issue a license to |
| 23 | operate. |
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| 26 | On line 11, after the semicolon: insert: |
| 27 | maintaining the validity of certain permits; protecting the |
| 28 | holders of certain permits from a taking by the state and from |
| 29 | fine or discipline; allowing permitholders to file an |
| 30 | irrevocable election not to operate; providing that such |
| 31 | election shall not affect the validity of a permit; |