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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 89 — Professional Boxing Safety

§ 6303. Boxing matches in States without boxing commissions

Statutory text

(a)

No person may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a professional boxing match held in a State that does not have a boxing commission unless the match is supervised by a boxing commission from another State and subject to the most recent version of the recommended regulatory guidelines certified and published by the Association of Boxing Commissions as well as any additional relevant professional boxing regulations and requirements of such other State.

(b)

For the purpose of this chapter, if no State commission is available to supervise a boxing match according to subsection (a), then—

(1)

the match may not be held unless it is supervised by an association of boxing commissions to which at least a majority of the States belong; and

(2)

any reporting or other requirement relating to a supervising commission allowed under this section shall be deemed to refer to the entity described in paragraph (1).

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.

  1. Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996

    Pub. L. 104–272 § 4 · 110 Stat. 3309

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6303

    Pub. L. 104–272, § 4, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3310

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 104–272, § 4, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3310

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 4. BOXING MATCHES IN STATES WITHOUT BOXING COMMISSIONS. No person may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a professional boxing match held in a State that does not have a boxing commission unless the match is supervised by a boxing commission from another State and subject to the most recent version of the recommended regulatory guidelines certified and published by the Association of Boxing Commissions as well as any additional relevant professional boxing regulations and requirements of such other State.

  2. Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act

    Pub. L. 106–210 § 7(e) · 114 Stat. 321

    1. Amended · 15 U.S.C. § 6303

      Pub. L. 106–210 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)

    2. Added · 15 U.S.C. § 6303

      Pub. L. 106–210 added subsec. (b)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 106–210 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (e) Alternative Supervision.— Section 4 of the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 (15 U.S.C. 6303) is amended— (1) by striking “No person” and inserting “(a) No person”; and (2) by inserting at the end thereof the following: “(b) for the purpose of this Act, if no State commission is available to supervise a boxing match according to subsection (a), then— “(1) the match may not be held unless it is supervised by an association of boxing commissions to which at least a majority of the States belong; and “(2) any reporting or other requirement relating to a supervising commission allowed under this section shall be deemed to refer to the entity described in paragraph (1).”.

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–210 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

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.

Credits

1996–2000 · 2 acts
  1. 1996Pub. L. 104–272, § 4, , 110 Stat. 3310
  2. 2000Pub. L. 106–210, § 7(e), , 114 Stat. 328.
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(Pub. L. 104–272, § 4, , 110 Stat. 3310; Pub. L. 106–210, § 7(e), , 114 Stat. 328.)

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