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9 entriesSection 18760Defines boxing, except as otherwise provided in the article, to include kickboxing and martial arts. It also exempts kickboxing and martial arts…Section 18761Requires commission rules and regulations governing professional boxing to apply to kickboxing and martial arts as well. Exempts any matter specifically excluded…Section 18763Requires the commission to regulate kickboxing and martial arts by rule and regulation in accordance with the referenced statutory provision. The rulemaking…Section 18765Requires the commission by rule and regulation to set professional and amateur kickboxing and martial arts contest length and duration, weight classes,…Section 18766Requires every contestant younger than 18 years old in an amateur kickboxing or martial arts contest to wear protective headgear approved by…Section 18767Exempts light and noncontact kickboxing and martial arts from the chapter, along with kickboxing and martial arts instruction and schools. The chapter…Section 18768Prohibits the commission from acting as a sanctioning body or granting titles to fighters or individual events. Those functions remain with professional…Section 18769Allows the commission to appoint an advisory committee on the article. Committee members must reside in California and, before appointment, have served…Section 18770Requires the commission to establish a three-commissioner advisory pankration subcommittee to examine contests involving or claiming pankration, or sufficiently similar styles, for…