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Date
of Proposal: July 19, 2010
Proposal
Number: PRN 2010-134
Proposal
Description: The New Jersey Racing
Commission is proposing to readopt rules
(N.J.S.A. 52:14B-5.1c, N.J.A.C. 13:73) to
ensure that workers’ compensation
insurance coverage is available to workers
in the thoroughbred and standard bred horse
racing industries in New Jersey. The rules
have been reviewed pursuant to Executive
Order No. 66, and the New Jersey Horse Racing
Injury Compensation Board finds them to
be reasonable, necessary and effective.
In enacting the New Jersey Horse Racing
Injury Compensation Act, the state Legislature
required the Horse Racing Injury Compensation
Board to secure workers’ compensation
insurance coverage for horse racing industry
employees, who are defined as “a jockey,
jockey apprentice, exercise personnel, driver
and driver/trainer performing services for
an owner in connection with the exercising
or racing of a horse in New Jersey. “
In doing so, the Legislature authorized
the Board to assess and collect sufficient
funds to pay the costs of the workers’
compensation insurance, or to provide self-insurance
coverage.
Summary of Proposal: A
complete summary of the proposed rule readoption
can be found on the New Jersey Racing Commission
Web site at: www.nj.gov/oag/racing/proposed.html
Public Comment: Public
comment on the proposed rule will be accepted
until September 17, 2010. Please direct
all comments to:
Frank
Zanzuccki, Chairman
N.J. Horse Racing Injury Compensation
Board
140 East Front Street
Trenton, New Jersey 08625
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