§ 1008. Licenses; judges. 1. Except as otherwise provided in sections
one thousand six and one thousand seventeen of this article, only a
person licensed by the commission, as a combative sports judge, may
judge an authorized professional combative sport within the state.
Judges for any authorized professional combative sport under the
jurisdiction of the commission shall be selected by the commission from
a list of qualified licensed judges maintained by the commission.

2. Any participant in a professional combative sport or his or her
manager may protest the assignment of a judge to a contest and the
participant or manager may be heard by the commission or its designee if
such protest is timely. If the protest is untimely it shall be summarily
rejected.

3. Each person seeking to be licensed as a judge by the commission
shall be required to submit to or provide proof of an eye examination
and annually thereafter on the anniversary of the issuance of the
license. The commission shall establish continuing education programs
and requirements to be completed by licensed judges. Each judge must be
certified as having completed a training program as approved by the
commission and shall pass an examination approved by the commission.

4. Each person seeking a license to judge authorized professional
combative sports in the state shall be required to fill out a financial
questionnaire certifying under penalty of perjury full disclosure of the
judge's financial situation on a questionnaire to be promulgated by the
commission. Such questionnaire shall be in a form and manner approved by
the commission and shall provide information as to areas of actual or
potential conflict of interest as well as appearances of such conflicts,
including financial responsibility. Within forty-eight hours of any
match, each judge of a professional combative sport shall file with the
commission a financial disclosure statement in such form and manner as
shall be acceptable to the commission.