N.Y. General Business Law § 1007: Licenses; general provisions

§ 1007. Licenses; general provisions. 1. Except as otherwise provided

in sections one thousand six, one thousand eleven, and one thousand

seventeen of this article, with respect to all authorized professional

combative sports in this state, all corporations, entities, persons,

referees, judges, match-makers, timekeepers, professionals, and their

managers, trainers, and seconds shall be licensed by the commission. No

such corporation, entity or person shall be permitted to participate,

either directly or indirectly, in any authorized professional combative

sport, 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 or professional mixed martial arts

participants, unless such corporation or persons shall have first

procured a license from the commission. The commission shall establish

by rule and regulation licensing standards for all licensees.

2. Every application for a license shall be in a form prescribed by

the commission, shall be addressed to the commission, shall be

subscribed by the applicant, and affirmed by him or her as true under

the penalties of perjury, and shall set forth such facts as the

provisions hereof and the rules and regulations of the commission may

require.

3. (a) The commission shall establish reasonable fees, terms and

renewal terms for licenses, permits and other authorizations issued

pursuant to this article, provided, however, that all terms, renewal

terms and fees in effect pursuant to chapter nine hundred twelve of the

laws of nineteen hundred twenty, and any subsequent amendments thereto,

immediately prior to the enactment of this article, shall remain fixed

at their prior statutory levels for a period of two years from enactment

of this article. The commission shall publish all fees, including the

aforementioned, in a single location on its website. All fees set by the

commission pursuant to this section shall be subject to the approval of

the director of the budget.

(b) With respect to the fees established by the commission pursuant to

paragraph (a) of this subdivision, when such fees are payable in

relation to authorized combative sports constituting mixed martial arts,

the following shall apply:

(i) by promoters, for contests held where the seating capacity is not

more than two thousand five hundred, the promoter shall pay not more

than five hundred dollars;

(ii) by promoters, for contests held where the seating capacity is

greater than two thousand five hundred, but not more than five thousand,

the promoter shall pay not more than one thousand dollars;

(iii) by promoters, for contests held where the seating capacity is

greater than five thousand, but not more than fifteen thousand, the

promoter shall pay not more than one thousand five hundred dollars;

(iv) by promoters, for contests held where the seating capacity is

greater than fifteen thousand, but not more than twenty-five thousand,

the promoter shall pay not more than two thousand five hundred dollars;

(v) by promoters, for contests held where the seating capacity is

greater than twenty-five thousand, the promoter shall pay not more than

three thousand dollars;

(vi) for referees and judges, not more than one hundred dollars;

(vii) for professional participants, managers and trainers not more

than fifty dollars; and

(viii) for chief seconds, not more than forty dollars.

4. Any license, temporary work permit or other authorization issued

under the provisions of this article may be revoked or suspended by the

commission when the licensee, permittee or authorized entity has, in the

judgment of the commission, violated any provision of this article, rule

or order of the commission, demonstrated conduct detrimental to the

interests of authorized combative sports generally or to the public

interest, or when the commission deems it to be in the best interests of

the health and safety of the licensee.

(a) Any licensee who suffered a knockout or technical knockout in a

combative sport may, upon the recommendation of the attending commission

physician, be suspended by the commission, for a period determined by

the commission, and shall forfeit his or her license to the commission

during such period. Such license shall not be returned to the licensee

until he or she has met all requirements, medical and otherwise, for

reinstatement of such license. All such suspensions shall be recorded in

his or her license by a commission official.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any other state

shall revoke a licensee's license to compete in combative sports in that

state, then the commission may act to revoke any license issued to such

licensee pursuant to the provisions of this article.