1999 Minnesota Statutes

CHAPTER 341. Board of boxing

     341.01 Creation. 

    There is hereby created the board of boxing, to consist of 
 seven members, citizens of this state, two of whom shall be 
 public members as defined by section 214.02.  Membership terms, 
 compensation of members, removal of members, the filling of 
 membership vacancies, and fiscal year and reporting requirements 
 shall be as provided in sections 214.07 to 214.09.  The 
 provision of staff, administrative services and office space; 
 the review and processing of complaints; the setting of board 
 fees; and other provisions relating to board operations shall be 
 as provided in chapter 214. 

    HIST: (3260-1) 1933 c 7 s 1; 1973 c 638 s 52; 1975 c 136 s 70; 
 1975 c 271 s 6; 1976 c 222 s 177; 1976 c 239 s 67; 1981 c 357 s 
 89; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 30; 1991 c 199 art 1 s 51 

     341.02 Limitations. 

    No member shall directly or indirectly promote any boxing 
 or sparring exhibition or directly or indirectly engage in the 
 managing of any boxer or be interested in any manner in any 
 proceeds from any boxing match. 

    HIST: (3260-2) 1933 c 7 s 2; 1973 c 638 s 53; 1975 c 136 s 71; 
 1981 c 357 s 90; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 30 

  341.03 Repealed, 1975 c 136 s 77 

     341.04 Executive secretary; personnel. 

    The board of boxing shall have power to appoint, and at its 
 pleasure remove, an executive secretary and prescribe the powers 
 and duties of the office.  The executive secretary shall be the 
 executive secretary of the board, but shall not be a member of 
 the board.  The board may employ such other personnel as may be 
 necessary in the performance of its duties. 

    HIST: (3260-4) 1933 c 7 s 4; 1965 c 832 s 2; 1969 c 815 s 2; 
 1975 c 236 s 1; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1976 c 2 s 171; 1976 c 222 s 
 178; 1976 c 239 s 93; 1981 c 357 s 91; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 30; 
 1986 c 444 

     341.045 Definition. 

    For the purposes of this chapter, the terms "boxing and 
 sparring" shall include full contact karate and kick boxing.  

    HIST: 1983 c 341 s 1 

     341.05 Duties. 

    Subdivision 1.  The board of boxing shall have charge and 
 supervision of all boxing and sparring exhibitions held in the 
 state and have power: 

    (1) To promulgate rules governing the conduct of boxing and 
 sparring exhibitions and the time and place thereof; 

    (2) To issue licenses to individuals or organizations 
 desiring to promote or conduct boxing or sparring exhibitions, 
 and to suspend or revoke the licenses at its pleasure; every 
 application for a license shall designate the territory in which 
 the individual or organization intends to operate, and the 
 license granted shall entitle the licensee to conduct the 
 exhibitions in that territory and in no other. 

    Subd. 2.  The board of boxing shall issue a license to a 
 person or organization holding, showing, or exhibiting a 
 simultaneous telecast of any live, current, or spontaneous 
 boxing or sparring match, exhibition, or performance on a closed 
 circuit telecast or subscription television program viewed 
 within the state, whether originating in this state or 
 elsewhere, and for which a charge is made.  Each such person or 
 organization shall apply for such a license in advance of each 
 showing.  

    Whoever violates the provisions of this subdivision is 
 guilty of a misdemeanor and may be punished therefor as provided 
 by law.  The penalty herein provided is in addition to any other 
 penalty for violation of this subdivision as may be otherwise 
 fixed in this chapter. 

    HIST: (3260-5) 1933 c 7 s 5; 1953 c 704 s 1; 1965 c 832 s 3; 
 1967 c 451 s 1,2; 1971 c 25 s 53,54; 1971 c 792 s 1; 1973 c 582 
 s 3; 1975 c 236 s 2; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1976 c 2 s 171; 1976 c 222 
 s 179; 1976 c 239 s 94,95; 1981 c 357 s 92; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 
 30; 1984 c 502 art 14 s 14 

     341.06 Source of funds for administration of duties.  

    The expenses of administering sections 341.01 to 341.15 
 shall be paid for from appropriations made to the board of 
 boxing. 

    HIST: (3260-6) 1933 c 7 s 6; 1945 c 245 s 2; 1949 c 177 s 2; 
 1953 c 593 s 2; 1965 c 832 s 4; 1969 c 815 s 3; 1973 c 638 s 55; 
 1975 c 271 s 6; 1976 c 222 s 180; 1976 c 239 s 96 

     341.07 Licenses; restrictions. 

    Unless revoked by the board, licenses granted hereunder 
 shall authorize the individuals or organizations receiving the 
 same to conduct boxing or sparring exhibitions in the community 
 designated therein for the period of time designated therein, 
 subject to the rules of the board and to restrictions as the 
 board may in its discretion incorporate therein.  Each license 
 shall contain a statement that boxing or sparring exhibitions 
 may be held on any Sunday and that no boxing or sparring match 
 shall be of more than 15 rounds, of not to exceed three minutes 
 each. 

    HIST: (3260-7) 1933 c 7 s 7; 1974 c 80 s 1; 1976 c 222 s 181; 
 1976 c 239 s 97; 1981 c 357 s 93; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 30 

     341.08 Exhibitions; consent required. 

    The provisions of this chapter are applicable to cities of 
 the first class, but no license shall be issued for the 
 conducting of any boxing or sparring exhibitions within the 
 limits of any municipality, except cities of the first class, 
 unless the governing body thereof has first consented to the 
 holding of boxing or sparring exhibitions therein; in the event 
 that the license is for the conducting of boxing or sparring 
 exhibitions in any county outside the limits of a municipality, 
 such license shall not be issued until the board of county 
 commissioners of the county and also the governing body of the 
 town shall have authorized the holding of boxing or sparring 
 exhibitions in such community, and each such license shall 
 designate the particular community in such county where such 
 exhibitions are held.  Consent by the governing body of such 
 municipality or by the county board or by the governing board of 
 the town shall be evidenced by a certified copy of a resolution 
 thereof filed with the board.  The governing body may revoke the 
 consent any time, and any licenses shall expire 30 days after 
 resolution revoking consent has been filed with the board. 

    HIST: (3260-8) 1933 c 7 s 8; 1976 c 222 s 182; 1976 c 239 s 
 98; 1981 c 357 s 94; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 30 

     341.09 Number of licenses. 

    Subdivision 1.  Except as provided in subdivisions 2 and 3, 
 only one license shall be in force in any municipality or 
 community at any time. 

    Subd. 2.  In any municipality having more than 100,000 and 
 less than 200,000 inhabitants, the board of boxing may issue one 
 license for amateur and one for professional boxing and sparring 
 exhibitions, but both licenses shall not be issued to the same 
 person. 

    Subd. 3.  In municipalities whose population exceeds 
 200,000 the board of boxing may issue one franchise for every 
 200,000 population or fraction thereof. 

    HIST: (3260-9) 1933 c 7 s 9; 1949 c 482 s 1; 1975 c 271 s 6; 
 1976 c 2 s 171; 1976 c 239 s 99,100; 1981 c 357 s 95; 1Sp1981 c 
 1 art 10 s 30 

     341.10 License fees. 

    The board shall have authority to collect and require the 
 payment of a license fee in an amount set by the board from the 
 owners of franchises or licenses.  The fee is not subject to 
 approval by the commissioner of finance and need not recover all 
 costs.  The board shall require the payment of the fee at the 
 time of the issuance of the license or franchise to the owner.  
 The moneys so derived shall be collected by the board and paid 
 to the state treasurer.  The board shall have authority to 
 license all boxers, managers, seconds, referees and judges and 
 may require them to pay a license fee.  All moneys collected by 
 the board from such licenses shall be paid to the state 
 treasurer. 

    HIST: (3260-10) 1933 c 7 s 10; 1951 c 56 s 1; 1971 c 792 s 2; 
 1975 c 236 s 3; 1976 c 222 s 183; 1976 c 239 s 101; 1981 c 357 s 
 96; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 30; 1989 c 269 s 45; 1995 c 233 art 2 s 
 53 

     341.11 Boxing exhibition rules. 

    The board shall promulgate rules to govern the holding of 
 amateur boxing exhibitions within the state. 

    The board shall not promulgate any rules which, if followed 
 by a participant, would adversely affect the participant's 
 amateur status in states other than Minnesota. 

    HIST: (3260-11) 1933 c 7 s 11; 1971 c 792 s 3; 1975 c 236 s 4; 
 1976 c 222 s 184; 1976 c 239 s 102; 1986 c 444 

     341.115 Professional boxing. 

    Any contest, match or exhibition in which cash prizes of $5 
 or more or other prizes worth $100 or more are offered to any 
 boxer shall comply with all rules of the board of boxing 
 governing professional boxing.  For purposes of this section, 
 trophies, travel expenses and subsistence expenses shall not be 
 considered prizes.  No boxer participating in these contests, 
 matches, or exhibitions shall engage in more than 15 rounds of 
 boxing in a 14-day period.  If the boxer loses due to a 
 technical knockout or is knocked unconscious, the boxer cannot 
 fight for a 30-day period.  No boxer shall participate in these 
 contests, matches, or exhibitions unless the boxer has submitted 
 an affidavit of physical fitness, subscribed and sworn to under 
 oath, to the board and has been examined by a physician 
 designated by the board.  The affidavit must state that the 
 boxer has regularly trained for at least 60 days under the 
 supervision of a second licensed by the board of boxing or a 
 second or trainer licensed in another jurisdiction or the 
 equivalent.  The examination must include an 
 electroencephalogram if the boxer has been knocked unconscious 
 in boxing competition.  The examination must also include an eye 
 examination designed to reveal any retinal defects or damage 
 that could be aggravated by boxing.  The examination shall be 
 performed at the expense of the promoter. 

    The board may order an electroencephalogram before any 
 contest, match, or exhibition if it determines that the 
 examination is necessary to protect the health of the boxer. The 
 examination must be performed at the expense of the promoter. 

    HIST: 1982 c 375 s 1; 1982 c 405 s 5; 1983 c 341 s 2; 1986 c 
 444 

     341.12 Bonds. 

    Before any license other than an amateur boxing license 
 shall be granted to any person, club, corporation, or 
 organization to conduct, hold or give any boxing or sparring 
 match, or exhibition, such applicant therefor shall execute and 
 file with the chair of the department of commerce a bond in the 
 sum of $2,500 in cities of the first class and $1,000 in other 
 communities, to be approved, as to form and sufficiency of the 
 sureties thereof, by the chair of the department of commerce, 
 conditioned for the payment of the five percent of the total 
 gross receipts and license fees herein provided.  Upon the 
 filing and approval of such bond the chair of the department of 
 commerce shall issue to such applicant for such license a 
 certificate of such filing and approval, which shall be by such 
 applicant filed in the office of the board with its application 
 for such license; and no such license shall be issued until such 
 certificate shall be so filed. 

    HIST: (3260-12) 1933 c 7 s 12; 1953 c 704 s 2; 1971 c 792 s 4; 
 1973 c 492 s 14; 1976 c 222 s 185; 1976 c 239 s 103; 1978 c 793 
 s 73; 1981 c 357 s 97; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 30; 1983 c 289 s 114 
 subd 1; 1984 c 655 art 1 s 92; 1986 c 444 

     341.13 Penalties for nonlicensed exhibitions. 

    Any person or persons who shall send or cause to be sent, 
 published, or otherwise made known, any challenge to fight what 
 is commonly known as a prize fight, or engage in any public 
 boxing or sparring match, exhibition, or contest, with or 
 without gloves, for any prize, reward, or compensation, or at 
 which any admission fee is charged directly or indirectly, or go 
 into training preparatory for such fight, exhibition, or 
 contest, or act as a trainer, aider, abettor, backer, umpire, 
 second surgeon, assistant, or attendant at such fight, 
 exhibition, or contest, or in any preparation for the same, and 
 any owner or lessee of any grounds, buildings, or structure of 
 any kind permitting the same to be used for such fight, 
 exhibition, or contest, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; 
 provided, that this section shall not apply to boxing or 
 sparring exhibitions held or to be held under license issued by 
 the board of boxing and in compliance with the rules issued by 
 it. 

    HIST: (3260-13) 1933 c 7 s 13; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1976 c 2 s 171; 
 1976 c 222 s 186; 1976 c 239 s 104; 1981 c 357 s 98; 1Sp1981 c 1 
 art 10 s 30 

  341.14 Repealed, 1975 c 136 s 77 

     341.15 Failure to report to the board. 

    When any individual or organization shall fail to make a 
 report of receipts of any contest at the time prescribed by the 
 board of boxing or to pay the fee herein provided, or when such 
 report is unsatisfactory to the commissioner of finance, the 
 commissioner may examine, or cause to be examined, the books and 
 records of such individual or organization, and subpoena and 
 examine, under oath, officers and other persons as witnesses for 
 the purpose of determining the total amount of the gross 
 receipts for any contest and the amount due pursuant to the 
 provisions of this chapter, which amount the commissioner may, 
 upon and as the result of such examination, fix and determine.  
 In case of default in the payment of any amount so ascertained 
 to be due, together with the expense incurred in making such 
 examination, for a period of 20 days after notice to such 
 delinquent individual or organization of the amount at which the 
 same may be fixed by the commissioner of finance, such 
 delinquent shall, ipso facto, forfeit and be thereby 
 disqualified from receiving any new license or any renewal of 
 license and, in addition, forfeit to the state of Minnesota the 
 sum of $500, which may be recovered by the attorney general, in 
 the name of the state, in the same manner as other penalties are 
 by law recovered. 

    HIST: (3260-15) 1933 c 7 s 15; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1975 c 271 s 
 6; 1976 c 2 s 171; 1976 c 222 s 187; 1976 c 239 s 105; 1981 c 
 357 s 99; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 30; 1986 c 444