N.Y. Boxing, Sparring and Wrestling Ch. 912/20 § 7: Corporations and persons required to procure licenses; professional boxer defined

* § 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 treasurers, box office

employees, ticket takers, doormen, ushers, professional boxers, their

managers, trainers, seconds and announcers shall be licensed by the

commission, and no such corporation or person shall be permitted to

participate, either directly or indirectly, in any boxing or sparring

match or exhibition, or the holding thereof, or the operation of any

training facility providing contact sparring maintained either

exclusively or in part for the use of professional boxers, unless such

corporation or persons shall have first procured a license from the

commission. The commission shall establish by rule and regulation

licensing and training standards for such referees, judges, managers,

trainers and seconds. For the purposes of this chapter, a professional

boxer is deemed to be one who competes for a money prize or teaches or

pursues or assists in the practice of boxing as a means of obtaining a

livelihood or pecuniary gain, and any contest conforming to the rules,

regulations and requirements of this chapter shall be deemed to be a

boxing match and not a prize fight.

* NB Repealed September 1, 2016