Sections
14 entriesSection 18640Establishes the State Athletic Commission’s sole direction, management, control, and jurisdiction over specified professional and amateur boxing, kickboxing, and full-contact martial arts…Section 18640.5Requires the commission at regularly scheduled meetings to invite testimony from boxing stakeholders about actions that could increase opportunities for licensees to…Section 18641Allows the commission to license clubs, assistant matchmakers, and corporation treasurers and requires licensing of referees, judges, matchmakers, and timekeepers for covered…Section 18642Allows the commission to license professional and amateur boxers and martial arts fighters, booking agents, managers, trainers, chief seconds, and seconds. It…Section 18642.5Requires a professional boxer or martial arts fighter to demonstrate ability to perform before licensure and requires revalidation under regulatory standards whenever…Section 18645Establishes a six-physician Advisory Committee on Medical and Safety Standards within the State Athletic Commission, including at least one qualifying board-certified neurologist.…Section 18645.1Requires the commission by regulation to create a review and approval process for applicants or licensees who test positive for hepatitis C…Section 18646Requires the chapter to apply to amateur boxing, wrestling, and full-contact martial arts contests, but allows the commission to authorize qualifying nonprofit…Section 18648Requires the commission to prescribe standards, as necessary, for licensing every person who must be licensed under the chapter or the commission's…Section 18649Prohibits commission-licensed professional or amateur boxers and martial arts fighters from using drugs, alcohol, stimulants, injections, or World Anti-Doping Code prohibited substances,…Section 18653Prohibits training a professional boxer, kickboxer, or martial arts athlete without a commission license and defines a professional trainer as responsible for…Section 18654Allows suspension or revocation of the license of a professional trainer, fighter, boxer, second, or manager who fails to report a licensed…Section 18655Exempts any contest conducted under the supervision or control of an entity of the United States Government from the chapter. The exception…Section 18656Exempts from the chapter a contest conducted by, or participated in exclusively by, a school, college, university, or an association or organization…