Section 19532.1.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, excluding venues under construction for the purpose of expanded year-round stabling and training for thoroughbred race horses, if a venue used for thoroughbred racing by an association or racing fair licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in the central zone in 2008 is not available for racing in 2009 or thereafter, the dates formerly allocated to that venue shall be available for allocation by the board to licensed associations or racing fairs in the southern or central zone.

(b) Upon allocation of dates pursuant to this section, no association or racing fair licensed to conduct thoroughbred racing in the southern or central zones may receive more than 25 weeks of thoroughbred racing when aggregated among the combined southern and central zones.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b), the aggregate allocation of racing weeks conducted in the southern and central zones shall not exceed the total aggregate racing weeks permitted to be run in the southern and central zones by Section 19531.

(Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 448, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2009.)