Bus. & Prof. Code, § 18731 · Article 7. Regulation of Contests
Bus. & Prof. Code, § 18731
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Repealed and added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 370, Sec. 13. (SB 309) Effective January 1, 2014.
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