Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3773 - Ohio Athletic Commission › Chapter 3773-3 - Promoters › Section 3773-3-02 - Conditions and bond requirements for issuing a promoter's license

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Any person who
			 wishes to promote any public or private competition that involves the sports of
			 boxing, kick boxing, mixed martial arts, karate,
			 tough person contests, or any other form of boxing or martial arts shall apply
			 to the commission for a promoter's license. Each application shall be filed
			 with the commission on forms provided by the commission, and shall be
			 accompanied by the appropriate license fee required by rules bearing agency
			 3773 of the Administrative Code. In addition, a surety bond of not less than
			 twenty thousand dollars must be submitted with the application. The applicant
			 shall verify the application under oath. The application shall be signed by the
			 applicant. The commission shall determine the form of the application for the
			 promoter's license. The application shall include the name of the applicant, a
			 passport size photo, the address, zip code and telephone number of the
			 applicant, and a reference confirming the applicant's financial responsibility,
			 and any other information the commission requires..
(B) The purpose of the
			 minimum twenty thousand dollars surety is to
			 insure the payment of the participants of any public or private competition
			 that involves the sports of boxing, kick boxing, mixed
			 martial arts, karate, tough person contests, or any other form of boxing
			 or martial arts. These participants include but are not limited to: inspectors,
			 physicians, judges, referees, timekeepers, contestants and anyone assigned by
			 the Ohio athletic commission.
(C)
			 Upon the proper filing of an application to promote any public or private
			 competition that involves the sports of boxing, kick boxing, karate,
			 mixed martial arts, tough man contests or tough
			 person contests, professional wrestling, or any other form of boxing or martial
			 arts., the commission shall issue a promoter's license to the applicant if:
(1) The applicant is not in default on any
			 payment, obligation, or debt payable to the state under rules
			 of
			 agency 3773 of the Administrative Code;
(2) The applicant is knowledgeable in the
			 proper conduct of competition that involves the sports of boxing, kick boxing,
			 karate, mixed martial arts, tough man contests or
			 tough person contests, professional wrestling, or any other form of boxing or
			 martial arts, in accordance with rules 
									of agency
			 3773 of the Administrative Code;
(3) The applicant for a promoter's license
			 for any public or private competition that involves the sports of boxing, kick
			 boxing, mixed martial arts, karate, tough person
			 contests, or any other form of boxing or martial arts has filed a twenty-five
			 hundred-dollar bond made payable to the treasurer of state in accordance with
			 rules 
									of agency 3773 of the Administrative Code; and a copy
			 of the certificate verifying the approval and the filing of that bond is
			 submitted to the executive director or commission.