Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 89 — Professional Boxing Safety
§ 6302. Purposes
Statutory text
The purposes of this chapter are—
to improve and expand the system of safety precautions that protects the welfare of professional boxers; and
to assist State boxing commissions to provide proper oversight for the professional boxing industry in the United States.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996
Pub. L. 104–272 § 3 · 110 Stat. 3309
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6302
(Pub. L. 104–272, § 3, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3310.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 104–272, § 3, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3310.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 3. PURPOSES. The purposes of this Act are— (1) to improve and expand the system of safety precautions that protects the welfare of professional boxers; and (2) to assist State boxing commissions to provide proper oversight for the professional boxing industry in the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , see section 23 of Pub. L. 104–272, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.