Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 89 — Professional Boxing Safety
§ 6304. Safety standards
Statutory text
No person may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a professional boxing match without meeting each of the following requirements or an alternative requirement in effect under regulations of a boxing commission that provides equivalent protection of the health and safety of boxers:
A physical examination of each boxer by a physician certifying whether or not the boxer is physically fit to safely compete, copies of which must be provided to the boxing commission.
Except as otherwise expressly provided under regulation of a boxing commission promulgated subsequent to , an ambulance or medical personnel with appropriate resuscitation equipment continuously present on site.
A physician continuously present at ringside.
Health insurance for each boxer to provide medical coverage for any injuries sustained in the match.
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 § 5 · 110 Stat. 3309
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6304
(Pub. L. 104–272, § 5, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3310.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 104–272, § 5, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3310.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 5. SAFETY STANDARDS. No person may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a professional boxing match without meeting each of the following requirements or an alternative requirement in effect under regulations of a boxing commission that provides equivalent protection of the health and safety of boxers: (1) A physical examination of each boxer by a physician certifying whether or not the boxer is physically fit to safely compete, copies of which must be provided to the boxing commission. (2) Except as otherwise expressly provided under regulation of a boxing commission promulgated subsequent to the enactment of this Act, an ambulance or medical personnel with appropriate resuscitation equipment continuously present on site. (3) A physician continuously present at ringside. (4) Health insurance for each boxer to provide medical coverage for any injuries sustained in the match.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , see section 23(2) of Pub. L. 104–272, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.