---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 41102"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "41102"
heading: "Parimutuel licensing simplification"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/41102"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Criminal Records and Information"
  - "Chapter 411 — Access to Criminal History and Identification Records"
---

# §41102. Parimutuel licensing simplification

- (a) **In general—** An association of [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) officials regulating parimutuel wagering, designated for the purpose of this section by the Attorney General, may submit fingerprints to the Attorney General on behalf of any applicant for [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) license to participate in parimutuel wagering. In response to such a submission, the Attorney General may, to the extent provided by law, exchange, for licensing and employment purposes, identification and criminal history records with the [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) governmental bodies to which such applicant has applied.
- (b) **Definition—** As used in this section, the term “[State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11)” means a [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or possession of the United States.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–413, § 2, Aug. 22, 1988, 102 Stat. 1101.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified in a note under section 534 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 100–413, § 3, Aug. 22, 1988, 102 Stat. 1101, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section and provisions set out as a note under section 10101 of this title] shall take effect on July 1, 1989.”