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Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 18731

Regulation of Contests

Known as the Boxing Act or the State Athletic Commission Act

The act spans §§ 18600–18888 (174 sections).

Repealed and added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 370, Sec. 13

(a) In addition to the other requirements of this chapter and regulations adopted thereunder, no referee or physician and surgeon shall be assigned to a boxing contest if he or she has not completed a clinic offered by a provider approved by the commission.

(b) A referee or physician and surgeon shall complete a clinic within the preceding six months of a boxing contest.

(c) The commission shall approve a clinic provider if the clinic includes, at a minimum, but is not limited to, the following topics related to a boxing contest: the subjects of the rules of the commission, the recognition and diagnosis of serious or life-threatening, boxing-related and neurological injuries and disorders, and refereeing a bout.

(d) The clinic provider may charge a referee or physician and surgeon participating in a clinic a fee in an amount not to exceed the reasonable cost of the clinic.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the commission from offering a clinic subject to the requirements of this section.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.