5 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 7 - Regulation Of Boxing Contests And Exhibitions

  • Chapter Notes
  • Section 701 - Boxing Regulated
    (a) General rule.--Professional contests or exhibitions, including kick boxing, shall be held within this Commonwealth only in accordance with the provisions of this subpart...
  • Section 702 - Age Of Participants
    (a) General rule.--No person under 18 years of age shall be a participant in any contest or exhibition. (b) Exception.-- (1) Any person between...
  • Section 703 - Fictitious Names
    No person shall participate in any amateur contest or exhibition under a fictitious or assumed name unless the fictitious or assumed name has first...
  • Section 704 - Physician To Be In Attendance
    A physician shall be assigned to every contest or exhibition by the executive director. The physician shall observe at all times the physical condition...
  • Section 705 - Medical Training Seminars
    The commission shall conduct mandatory medical training seminars at least twice a year for all ring personnel, commission personnel and other designated persons employed...
  • Section 706 - Register
    The executive director shall establish and maintain a register for all professional boxers licensed in this Commonwealth. The register shall include a photograph of...
  • Section 707 - Medical Equipment
    No professional contest or exhibition shall be started unless there is on the premises: (1) An ambulance, together with emergency equipment. (2) A portable...
  • Section 708 - Suspension And Revocation For Injuries
    (a) General rule.--For sound medical reasons and to protect the individual boxers, the commission shall establish mandatory license suspensions of those persons who sustain...
  • Section 709 - Medical Examinations
    (a) Prefight examination.--In addition to any other examination required by this subpart or the rules and regulations promulgated under this subpart, each boxer shall...
  • Section 710 - Weights And Classes
    The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations establishing classes of boxers, which classes shall be based upon weights. All contests or exhibitions shall take...
  • Section 711 - Limitation On Difference In Weights
    No contest or exhibition shall take place in which the difference in weight of the participants exceeds ten pounds. This section shall not apply...
  • Section 712 - Gloves
    (a) General rule.--All boxers licensed under this subpart shall be required to use thumbless or thumb-attached gloves. The appropriate weight boxing gloves shall be...
  • Section 713 - Ring Padding
    All ring padding shall be subject to approval of the commission. All padding shall be of soft felt, foam rubber or similar material and...
  • Section 714 - Duration Of Bouts And Rounds
    (a) Length of contest.--No contest or exhibition shall be more than 12 rounds in length, except for championship contests sanctioned by recognized international or...
  • Section 715 - Referee And Judges
    (a) Referee.--At each professional contest or exhibition, except an exhibition held solely for training purposes, there shall be in attendance, at the expense of...
  • Section 716 - Seconds
    Before the start of any contest or exhibition, the referee shall ascertain from each participant the name of the chief second. The chief second...
  • Section 717 - Mandatory Eight Count
    Whenever a boxer is knocked down, the boxer shall be required to take a count of eight. The referee shall not permit the contest...
  • Section 718 - Knockouts
    (a) Count by referee.--When a boxer is knocked out, the referee shall count to ten unless, in the judgment of the referee, the boxer...
  • Section 719 - Duty Of Disclosure
    Every licensee shall, immediately after learning thereof, disclose to the executive director or his designee, or to the official in charge or the attending...
  • Section 720 - Sham Or Collusive Contest Prohibited
    (a) General rule.--No licensee or other person shall knowingly conduct, give, participate in or be in any way connected with any sham or collusive...

Last modified: October 8, 2016