Section 508.60  Penalties for Substance Abuse

a)         For a Jockey, Driver, Starter, Assistant Starter, or Outrider's first violation of subsection 508.50(a), the Board or the stewards shall suspend the offender or assess a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000.  In determining the appropriate penalty, the Board or stewards shall consider the offender's history of rule violations, age and experience, and the potential of the offender's conduct to result in physical harm to the human and equine participants at the race meeting.

b)         For a second violation of Section 508.50(a), the Board or the stewards shall suspend the Jockey, Driver, Starter, Assistant Starter, or Outrider pending his completion of a substance abuse treatment program licenses by the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse under 77 Ill. Adm. Code 2055 or a state licensed treatment program in another state. If any individual is suspended for a second violation of Section 508.50(a), he shall be entitled to a hearing as provided in 11 Ill. Adm. Code 204.

1)         It shall be the responsibility of the Jockey, Driver, Starter, Assistant Starter, or Outrider to provide the Board with written notice (on forms provided by the Board) of his enrollment, weekly status reports, and a written notice that he has successfully completed the program and has been discharged.

2)         After a Jockey, Driver, Starter, Assistant Starter, or Outrider has been discharged from a treatment program, the Board shall require, as a condition of his re-licensure, periodic follow-up urine testing within one year from the date of the treatment program discharge, but not to exceed four (4) tests per year.

c)         For a Jockey, Driver, Starter, Assistant Starter, or Outrider's third violation of Section 508.50(a), his license shall be revoked.  If any individual's license is revoked for the third violation of Section 508.50(a), he shall be entitled to a hearing as provided in 11 Ill. Adm. Code 204.

(Source:  Amended at 12 Ill. Reg. 1910, effective January 1, 1988)