§ 107. Conflicts prohibited. 1. No person shall be appointed to or\nemployed by the commission if, during the period commencing three years\nprior to appointment or employment, such person held any direct or\nindirect interest in, or employment by, any corporation, association or\nperson engaged in gaming activity within the state. Prior to appointment\nor employment, each member, officer or employee of the commission shall\nswear or affirm that he or she possesses no interest in any corporation\nor association holding a franchise, license, registration, certificate\nor permit issued by the commission. Thereafter, no member or officer of\nthe commission shall hold any direct interest in or be employed by any\napplicant for or by any corporation, association or person holding a\nlicense, registration, franchise, certificate or permit issued by the\ncommission for a period of four years commencing on the date his or her\nmembership with the commission terminates. Further, no employee of the\ncommission may acquire any direct or indirect interest in, or accept\nemployment with, any applicant for or any person holding a license,\nregistration, franchise, certificate or permit issued by the commission\nfor a period of two years commencing at the termination of employment\nwith the commission. The commission may, by resolution adopted by\nunanimous vote at a properly noticed public meeting, waive for good\ncause the pre-employment restrictions enumerated in this subdivision for\na prospective employee whose duties and responsibilities are primarily\non racetrack grounds. Such adopted resolution shall state the reasons\nfor waiving the pre-employment conditions for the prospective employee,\nincluding a finding that there were no other qualified candidates with\nthe desired experience for the specified position.\n 2. No member, officer, official or employee of the commission shall\nparticipate as an owner of a horse or otherwise as a contestant in any\nhorse race at a race meeting which is under the jurisdiction or\nsupervision of the commission, or have any pecuniary interest, direct or\nindirect, in the purse, prize, premium or stake contested for at any\nsuch horse race or in the operations of any licensee of the commission\nor state racing franchisee. Participation as an owner of a horse or\notherwise as a contestant in any such horse race by a member, officer,\nother official or employee of the commission in violation of this\nprohibition shall terminate the term of his or her office as a member,\nor his or her services as an officer or official or employee of the\ncommission.\n 3. No member, officer or employee of the commission shall wager upon\ngaming or horse racing activity conducted within the state.\n 4. No individual employed by an off-track betting corporation or race\ntrack licensed pursuant to this chapter as a pari-mutuel clerk, cashier\nor seller shall be permitted to wager upon gaming activity during any\nperiod of a day on which such person is employed in such capacity.\n 5. No public officer or party officer shall hold any racing or video\nlottery gaming license from the commission.\n 6. The following public employees are prohibited from holding any\nlicense from the commission:\n (a) an employee of the commission; any director or employee of a\nregional off-track betting corporation employed in a management,\nconfidential or supervisory capacity for purposes of their position with\noff-track betting; or\n (b) an employee of the state legislature; provided, however, that an\nemployee of the state legislature whose duties in such position do not\nrelate to gaming activities shall not be subject to the prohibitions of\nthis section if he or she held a license from the former state racing\nand wagering board while employed by the state legislature prior to July\nfirst, nineteen hundred eighty; or\n (c) an employee of any local legislative body whose duties involve\ngaming activities; or\n (d) an employee of
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