Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 89 — Professional Boxing Safety
§ 6307b. Protection from coercive contracts
Statutory text
General rule
A contract provision shall be considered to be in restraint of trade, contrary to public policy, and unenforceable against any boxer to the extent that it—
is a coercive provision described in subparagraph (B) and is for a period greater than 12 months; or
is a coercive provision described in subparagraph (B) and the other boxer under contract to the promoter came under that contract pursuant to a coercive provision described in subparagraph (B).
A coercive provision described in this subparagraph is a contract provision that grants any rights between a boxer and a promoter, or between promoters with respect to a boxer, if the boxer is required to grant such rights, or a boxer’s promoter is required to grant such rights with respect to a boxer to another promoter, as a condition precedent to the boxer’s participation in a professional boxing match against another boxer who is under contract to the promoter.
This subsection shall only apply to contracts entered into after .
No subsequent contract provision extending any rights or compensation covered in paragraph (1) shall be enforceable against a boxer if the effective date of the contract containing such provision is earlier than 3 months before the expiration of the relevant time period set forth in paragraph (1).
Promotional rights under mandatory bout contracts
No boxing service provider may require a boxer to grant any future promotional rights as a requirement of competing in a professional boxing match that is a mandatory bout under the rules of a sanctioning organization.
Protection from coercive contracts with broadcasters
Subsection (a) of this section applies to any contract between a commercial broadcaster and a boxer, or granting any rights with respect to that boxer, involving a broadcast in or affecting interstate commerce, regardless of the broadcast medium. For the purpose of this subsection, any reference in subsection (a)(1)(B) to “promoter” shall be considered a reference to “commercial broadcaster”.
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 § 10 · 110 Stat. 3309
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6307b
(Pub. L. 104–272, § 10, as added Pub. L. 106–210, § 4(2), May 26, 2000, 114 Stat. 322.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 104–272, § 10, as added Pub. L. 106–210, § 4(2), May 26, 2000, 114 Stat. 322.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 10. ENFORCEMENT. (a) Injunctions.— Whenever the Attorney General of the United States has reasonable cause to believe that a person is engaged in a violation of this Act, the Attorney General may bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the United States requesting such relief, including a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order, against the person, as the Attorney General determines to be necessary to restrain the person from continuing to engage in, sanction, promote, or otherwise participate in a professional boxing match in violation of this Act. (b) Criminal Penalties.— (1) Managers, promoters, matchmakers, and licensees.— Any manager, promoter, matchmaker, and licensee who knowingly violates, or coerces or causes any other person to violate, any provision of this Act shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned for not more than 1 year or fined not more than $20,000, or both. (2) Conflict of interest.— Any member or employee of a boxing commission, any person who administers or enforces State boxing laws, and any member of the Association of Boxing Commissions who knowingly violates section 9 of this Act shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned for not more than 1 year or fined not more than $20,000, or both. (3) Boxers.— Any boxer who knowingly violates any provision of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 10 of Pub. L. 104–272 was renumbered section 18 and is classified to section 6309 of this title.
Credits
(Pub. L. 104–272, § 10, as added Pub. L. 106–210, § 4(2), , 114 Stat. 322.)