2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 41 - Combative Sports › 1007 - Licenses; General Provisions.

§  1007. Licenses; general provisions. 1. Except as otherwise provided
in sections one thousand six, one  thousand  eleven,  and  one  thousand
seventeen  of  this article, with respect to all authorized professional
combative sports in this state,  all  corporations,  entities,  persons,
referees,  judges,  match-makers,  timekeepers, professionals, and their
managers, trainers, and seconds shall be licensed by the commission.  No
such  corporation,  entity  or person shall be permitted to participate,
either directly or indirectly, in any authorized professional  combative
sport, 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  or  professional  mixed  martial  arts
participants,  unless  such  corporation  or  persons  shall  have first
procured a license from the commission. The commission  shall  establish
by rule and regulation licensing standards for all licensees.
2.  Every  application  for a license shall be in a form prescribed by
the  commission,  shall  be  addressed  to  the  commission,  shall   be
subscribed  by  the  applicant, and affirmed by him or her as true under
the penalties of  perjury,  and  shall  set  forth  such  facts  as  the
provisions  hereof  and  the rules and regulations of the commission may
require.
3. (a) The commission  shall  establish  reasonable  fees,  terms  and
renewal  terms  for  licenses,  permits  and other authorizations issued
pursuant to this article, provided, however,  that  all  terms,  renewal
terms  and fees in effect pursuant to chapter nine hundred twelve of the
laws of nineteen hundred twenty, and any subsequent amendments  thereto,
immediately  prior  to the enactment of this article, shall remain fixed
at their prior statutory levels for a period of two years from enactment
of this article. The commission shall publish all  fees,  including  the
aforementioned, in a single location on its website. All fees set by the
commission  pursuant to this section shall be subject to the approval of
the director of the budget.
(b) With respect to the fees established by the commission pursuant to
paragraph (a) of  this  subdivision,  when  such  fees  are  payable  in
relation to authorized combative sports constituting mixed martial arts,
the following shall apply:
(i)  by promoters, for contests held where the seating capacity is not
more than two thousand five hundred, the promoter  shall  pay  not  more
than five hundred dollars;
(ii)  by  promoters,  for  contests held where the seating capacity is
greater than two thousand five hundred, but not more than five thousand,
the promoter shall pay not more than one thousand dollars;
(iii) by promoters, for contests held where the  seating  capacity  is
greater  than  five  thousand,  but  not more than fifteen thousand, the
promoter shall pay not more than one thousand five hundred dollars;
(iv) by promoters, for contests held where  the  seating  capacity  is
greater  than  fifteen thousand, but not more than twenty-five thousand,
the promoter shall pay not more than two thousand five hundred dollars;
(v) by promoters, for contests held  where  the  seating  capacity  is
greater  than twenty-five thousand, the promoter shall pay not more than
three thousand dollars;
(vi) for referees and judges, not more than one hundred dollars;
(vii) for professional participants, managers and  trainers  not  more
than fifty dollars; and
(viii) for chief seconds, not more than forty dollars.
4.  Any  license,  temporary work permit or other authorization issued
under the provisions of this article may be revoked or suspended by  the
commission when the licensee, permittee or authorized entity has, in the
judgment of the commission, violated any provision of this article, rule

or  order  of  the  commission,  demonstrated conduct detrimental to the
interests of authorized combative sports  generally  or  to  the  public
interest, or when the commission deems it to be in the best interests of
the health and safety of the licensee.
(a)  Any  licensee  who suffered a knockout or technical knockout in a
combative sport may, upon the recommendation of the attending commission
physician, be suspended by the commission, for a  period  determined  by
the  commission,  and shall forfeit his or her license to the commission
during such period. Such license shall not be returned to  the  licensee
until  he  or  she  has met all requirements, medical and otherwise, for
reinstatement of such license. All such suspensions shall be recorded in
his or her license by a commission official.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,  if  any  other  state
shall revoke a licensee's license to compete in combative sports in that
state,  then the commission may act to revoke any license issued to such
licensee pursuant to the provisions of this article.