New York · statute · N.Y. Boxing, Sparring and Wrestling Ch. 912/20 Law · 40 active provisions
* Regulation of Boxing, Sparring and Wrestling--Chapter 912 of 1920 *§ 1. State athletic commission. The state boxing commission is continued as a division in the department of state under the name of the state athletic commission. The commission shall consist of three members who shall be appointed by the governor by…
* § 2. Officers and employees. The commission may appoint, and at pleasure remove, deputies who shall be paid a salary within budgetary appropriations and all necessary expenses for traveling and maintenance incurred by them in the performance of their official duties outside of the city in which they are regularly emp…
* § 3. Subpoenas by commission; oaths. The commission shall have authority to issue, under the hand of its chairman, and the seal of the commission, subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses before the commission. A subpoena issued under this section shall be regulated by the civil practice law and rules. * NB Repealed…
* § 4. Medical advisory board. 1. A medical advisory board is hereby created in the division of the state athletic commission, to consist of nine members, to be appointed by the governor. Of the members first appointed by the governor, three shall be appointed for terms of one year, three for terms of two years, and th…
* § 5. Boxing and professional wrestling exhibitions authorized. No boxing, sparring or professional wrestling matches or exhibitions shall be conducted, held or given within the state except in accordance with the provisions of this act. The commission shall direct a deputy to be present at each place where boxing or…
* § 5-a. Combative sports. 1. A "combative sport" shall mean any professional match or exhibition other than boxing, sparring, wrestling or martial arts wherein the contestants deliver, or are not forbidden by the applicable rules thereof from delivering kicks, punches or blows of any kind to the body of an opponent or…
* § 6. Jurisdiction of commission. 1. The commission shall have and hereby is vested with the sole direction, management, control and jurisdiction over all such boxing and sparring matches or exhibitions to be conducted, held or given within the state of New York and over all licenses to any and all persons who partici…
* § 7. Corporations and persons required to procure licenses; professional boxer defined. Except as otherwise provided in sections 9 and 9-a of this chapter, with respect to all boxing or sparring matches or exhibitions in this state, all corporations, persons, referees, judges, match-makers, timekeepers, corporation t…
* § 7-a. Regulation of judges. 1. Judges for any contest under the jurisdiction of the commission shall be selected by the commission from a list of qualified licensed judges maintained by the commission. 2. Any boxer or manager may protest the assignment of a judge to a contest and the protesting boxer or manager may…
* § 8. License to corporations. 1. a. The commission may, in its discretion, issue a license to conduct, hold or give boxing or sparring matches or exhibitions, subject to the provisions hereof, to any person or corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the state of New York. b. A prospective licensee must submit…
* § 9. Temporary working permits. The commission shall issue temporary working permits to box office employees, ushers, ticket takers and doormen good for employment at a single exhibition of boxing, sparring or professional wrestling, at a stated time and place. The fee for each such temporary working permit shall be…
* § 9-a. Temporary working permits for boxers, managers, trainers and seconds. The commission may issue temporary working permits to professional boxers, their managers, trainers and seconds. A temporary working permit shall authorize the employment of the holder of such permit to engage in a single match at a specifie…
* § 9-b. Temporary training facilities. Any training facility providing contact sparring established and maintained on a temporary basis for the purpose of preparing a professional boxer or for a specific boxing or sparring match or exhibition to be conducted, held or given within the state of New York shall be exempt…
* § 10. License fees; term of licenses; renewals. Each applicant for a license shall, before a license is issued by the commission, pay to the commission, an annual license fee as follows: corporations in cities of the first class, where the seating capacity is not more than two thousand five hundred, four hundred and…
* § 11. Application for license; fingerprints. 1. Every application for a license shall be in writing, shall be addressed to the commission, shall be subscribed by the applicant, and affirmed by him as true under the penalties of perjury, and shall set forth such facts as the provisions hereof and the rules and regulat…
* § 12. Standards for the issuance of licenses. 1. If in the judgment of the commission the financial responsibility, experience, character and general fitness of an applicant, including in the case of corporations its officers and stockholders, are such that the participation of such applicant will be consistent with…
* § 13. Financial interest in boxer prohibited. No corporation or person shall have, either directly or indirectly, any financial interest in a boxer competing on premises owned or leased by the corporation or person, or in which such corporation or person is otherwise interested except pursuant to the specific written…
* § 14. Payments not to be made before contests. No contestant in a boxing or sparring match or exhibition shall be paid for services before the contest, and should it be determined by the commission that such contestant did not give an honest exhibition of his skill, such services shall not be paid for. * NB Repealed…
* § 15. Sham or collusive exhibitions. Any person, including any corporation and the officers thereof, any physician, referee, judge, timekeeper, boxer, manager, trainer or second, who shall promote, conduct, give or participate in any sham or collusive boxing or sparring match or exhibition, shall be deprived of his l…
* § 16. Imposition of penalties for violations. Any corporation, person or persons, licensed under the provisions of this chapter, that shall willfully violate any rule or order of the commission or any provision of this chapter, in addition to any other penalty by law prescribed, shall be liable to a civil penalty not…
* § 17. Revocation or suspension of licenses. (a) Any license issued under the provisions of this act may be revoked or suspended by the commission for the reason therein stated, that the licensee has, in the judgment of the commission, been guilty of an act detrimental to the interests of boxing or wrestling generally…
* 18. Advertising matter to state admission price. It shall be the duty of every person or corporation promoting or conducting a boxing or sparring match or exhibition subject to the provisions of this chapter to cause to be inserted in each show card, bill, poster, newspaper advertisement and in each and every adverti…
* § 19. Tickets to indicate purchase price. All tickets of admission to any boxing, sparring or professional wrestling match or exhibition shall be controlled by the provisions of article 25 of the arts and cultural affairs law. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to admit to such match or exhibition a n…
* § 20. Equipment of buildings for exhibitions. All buildings or structures used or intended to be used for holding or giving boxing, sparring or professional wrestling matches or exhibitions shall be properly ventilated and provided with fire exits and fire escapes, and in all manner conform to the laws, ordinances an…
* § 21. Age of participants and spectators. No person under the age of eighteen years shall participate in any professional boxing, sparring or professional wrestling match or exhibition, and no person under sixteen years of age shall be permitted to attend thereat as a spectator; provided, however, that a person betwe…