* § 7. Corporations and persons required to procure licenses;
professional boxer defined. Except as otherwise provided in sections 9
and 9-a of this chapter, with respect to all boxing or sparring matches
or exhibitions in this state, all corporations, persons, referees,
judges, match-makers, timekeepers, corporation treasurers, box office
employees, ticket takers, doormen, ushers, professional boxers, their
managers, trainers, seconds and announcers shall be licensed by the
commission, and no such corporation or person shall be permitted to
participate, either directly or indirectly, in any boxing or sparring
match or exhibition, or the holding thereof, or the operation of any
training facility providing contact sparring maintained either
exclusively or in part for the use of professional boxers, unless such
corporation or persons shall have first procured a license from the
commission. The commission shall establish by rule and regulation
licensing and training standards for such referees, judges, managers,
trainers and seconds. For the purposes of this chapter, a professional
boxer is deemed to be one who competes for a money prize or teaches or
pursues or assists in the practice of boxing as a means of obtaining a
livelihood or pecuniary gain, and any contest conforming to the rules,
regulations and requirements of this chapter shall be deemed to be a
boxing match and not a prize fight.

* NB Repealed September 1, 2016