Uniform method of keeping accounts and records; audit annually; revocation of permit

The State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance shall prescribe a uniform method by which permit holders engaged in the business of conducting horse race meetings shall be required to maintain complete and detailed financial accounts and records relating to the operations of their tracks, and it shall be the duty of each permit holder to comply therewith. The State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance shall also annually cause to be made by some competent person or persons in his department a thorough audit of the books and records of each permit holder, which audit shall be kept on file in his office at all times, and a copy of which shall be forwarded to the commission immediately upon the completion thereof; and each permit holder shall permit access to its books and records for the purpose of having such audit made, and shall produce, upon written order of the head of said department, any and all papers and information required for such purpose. The commission may, after hearing, revoke the permit of any permit holder failing to comply with the provisions of this section, and every such failure shall be reported to the commission by the State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance.