New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 46 - RULES GOVERNING BOXING, EXTREME WRESTLING AND SPARRING EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES › Subchapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Section 13:46-1.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Board" means the State Athletic Control Board.
"Championship boxing match" means any boxing match in which the championship of a recognized boxing association is at stake.
"Club" means any person, club, corporation, organization or association licensed under the act to conduct, hold or give professional boxing matches or exhibitions.
"Club contract" is an agreement between a boxer with a promoter that provides that the boxer shall participate in a bout with another named boxer.
"Commissioner" means the person appointed by the Attorney General with the concurrence of the Board to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the Board.
"Licensee" means any person, club, corporation, organization or association licensed by the Board.
"Manager" means any person who:
1. By contract, agreement, or other arrangement with any person undertakes or has undertaken to represent in any way the interest in any professional boxing contest in which such boxer is to participate as a contestant; and is entitled under that contract, agreement or other arrangement to receive monetary or other compensation for his services without regard to the sources of such compensation; except that the term "manager" shall not be construed to mean any attorney licensed to practice in this State, whose participation in such activities is restricted solely to his representing the interests of a professional boxer as his client.
2. Directs or controls the professional boxing activities of any professional boxer.
3. Receives or is entitled to receive ten percent or more of the gross purse, or gross income of any professional boxing contest.
"Program" means the total of all boxing and wrestling matches presented on a particular occasion.
"Promoter" means any person, club, corporation, organization or association licensed under the act to conduct, hold or give programs or exhibitions.
"Purse" means the compensation, percentage or other remuneration for which the contestants are competing.
"Recognized boxing association" means an organization recognized by the Commissioner with the concurrence of the Board whose voting membership is composed of representatives of governmental agencies regulating boxing, including, but not limited to, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, the International Boxing Federation, the North American Boxing Federation, and the United States Boxing Association. The Commissioner may, with the concurrence of the Board, designate any regional, national, or international boxing organization pursuant to this definition.
"Special event" means a boxing card, boxing show, or any other combative sports event which has among its contests a championship elimination match, a pay-per-view or subscription television match, a nationally televised match, or any other match of significance to combative sports in this State as designated by the Commissioner with the concurrence of the Board.