N.Y. General Business Law § 1008: Licenses; judges

§ 1008. Licenses; judges. 1. Except as otherwise provided in sections

one thousand six and one thousand seventeen of this article, only a

person licensed by the commission, as a combative sports judge, may

judge an authorized professional combative sport within the state.

Judges for any authorized professional combative sport under the

jurisdiction of the commission shall be selected by the commission from

a list of qualified licensed judges maintained by the commission.

2. Any participant in a professional combative sport or his or her

manager may protest the assignment of a judge to a contest and the

participant or manager may be heard by the commission or its designee if

such protest is timely. If the protest is untimely it shall be summarily

rejected.

3. Each person seeking to be licensed as a judge by the commission

shall be required to submit to or provide proof of an eye examination

and annually thereafter on the anniversary of the issuance of the

license. The commission shall establish continuing education programs

and requirements to be completed by licensed judges. Each judge must be

certified as having completed a training program as approved by the

commission and shall pass an examination approved by the commission.

4. Each person seeking a license to judge authorized professional

combative sports in the state shall be required to fill out a financial

questionnaire certifying under penalty of perjury full disclosure of the

judge's financial situation on a questionnaire to be promulgated by the

commission. Such questionnaire shall be in a form and manner approved by

the commission and shall provide information as to areas of actual or

potential conflict of interest as well as appearances of such conflicts,

including financial responsibility. Within forty-eight hours of any

match, each judge of a professional combative sport shall file with the

commission a financial disclosure statement in such form and manner as

shall be acceptable to the commission.