California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 3 - Jurisdiction, Licenses, and Exemptions

• Section 18640.
  The commission has the sole direction, management, control of, and jurisdiction over all professional and amateur boxing, professional and amateur kickboxing, all forms and combinations...
• Section 18640.5.
  (a) The commission, at its regularly scheduled meetings, shall invite testimony from boxing stakeholders to identify actions that may lead to greater opportunities for its licensees...
• Section 18641.
  The commission may license clubs to conduct, hold, or give, and shall license referees, judges, matchmakers, and timekeepers, and may license assistant matchmakers and corporation...
• Section 18642.
  The commission may license professional and amateur boxers, professional and amateur martial arts fighters, and booking agents, managers of professional boxers and professional martial arts...
• Section 18642.5.
  A professional boxer or martial arts fighter shall, prior to licensure by the commission, demonstrate his or her ability to perform. If at any time...
• Section 18645.
  (a) There is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the State Athletic Commission an Advisory Committee on Medical and Safety Standards.(b) The committee shall consist of six...
• Section 18646.
  (a) This chapter applies to all amateur boxing, wrestling, and full contact martial arts contests.(b) The commission may, however, authorize one or more nonprofit boxing, wrestling, or...
• Section 18648.
  The commission shall prescribe standards as necessary, for the licensure of any persons required to be licensed by this chapter or by the commission’s regulations.(Added...
• Section 18649.
  (a) The administration or use of any drugs, alcohol, stimulants, or injections in any part of the body or the use of any prohibited substance specified...
• Section 18653.
  No person shall train a professional boxer or kickboxer or martial arts athlete unless he or she has been licensed by the commission. A professional...
• Section 18654.
  Failure of a licensed professional trainer, fighter, boxer, second, or manager to report an injury or knockout of a licensed boxer or fighter to the...
• Section 18655.
  This chapter does not apply to any contest conducted under the supervision or control of an entity of the United States Government.(Added by Stats. 1985,...
• Section 18656.
  This chapter does not apply to any contest conducted by, or participated in exclusively by, any school, college, or university, or by any association or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018