KRS 229.260: Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Commission Medical Advisory Panel

-- Membership -- Compensation -- Duties -- Conduct of meetings.

(1) The Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Commission Medical Advisory Panel is

hereby created and established as an agency of state government.

(2) (a) The panel shall consist of three (3) to five (5) physicians appointed by the

secretary of the Public Protection Cabinet.

(b) At least one (1) of the panel members shall be a neurologist.

(c) In addition to the physicians appointed to the panel under this subsection,

the licensed physician appointed to the commission by the Governor

under KRS 229.151 shall be an ex officio voting member of the panel and

shall serve as the panel's chairperson.

(3) Each physician shall be:

(a) Licensed to practice medicine in Kentucky; and

(b) Knowledgeable regarding one (1) or more medical fields related to the

kinds and types of injuries or conditions likely to be the result of unarmed

combat.

(4) Each member of the panel shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) per day for

each meeting of the panel and for each day that the member is engaged in

carrying out the duties of the panel.

(5) The panel shall advise the Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Commission

regarding:

(a) Health and safety issues and policy relating to the sports regulated by the

commission;

(b) The fitness of an individual referred to the panel for review to compete in

the regulated sports; and

(c) The length of a medical suspension of an injured person.

(6) Meetings of the Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Medical Advisory Panel held

for the purpose of discussing an individual's fitness to obtain a license or to

compete shall be exempt from the Kentucky Open Meetings Law established in

KRS Chapter 61.

(7) Meetings of the Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Medical Advisory Panel for the

purpose of discussing individual fitness to obtain a license or to compete may

be held in the form of written, video, telephonic, or electronic communications

between members. The members shall not be compensated for these

meetings.