Texas Administrative Code › Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION › Part 4 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATION › Chapter 61 - COMBATIVE SPORTS › Section 61.10 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms have the following
				  meanings:
(1) Badge--A
				department-issued credential provided to timekeepers, judges, referees and
				ringside physicians who officiate at combative sports events.
(2) Chief second--The second designated by
				the contestant as the primary advisor or assistant to the contestant.
(3) Code--The Texas Occupations Code, Chapter
				2052, "Combative Sports".
(4)
				Contestant--Any participant, including a professional combative sports
				contestant, who competes in a combative sport event regulated by the
				Code.
(5) Deadwood--The numerical
				difference between tickets printed and tickets used.
(6) Federal Identification Card--A nationally
				recognized identification card issued by the National Boxing Registry or the
				National Mixed Martial Arts Registry required for competition in a combative
				sport event.
(7) Full
				Contact--Contact made while intentionally striking a blow with any part of the
				body to an opponent when the contact has the potential to temporarily disable
				or to injure an opponent.
(8)
				Knock-down--A knock-down occurs when any part of a contestant's body, other
				than the feet, contacts the floor of the ring or fighting area as a result of a
				blow struck to the contestant by an opponent.
(9) License or Registration--A document
				issued by the executive director permitting a person to participate at an event
				or perform a function regulated by the Code.
(10) Manager--A person who, under contract,
				agreement, or other arrangement with a contestant undertakes to directly or
				indirectly, control, or administer a professional combative sports contestant's
				affairs.
(11) Person--Any natural
				person, corporation, partnership, association or other similar
				entity.
(12) Purse--The financial
				guarantee or any other remuneration promised to contestants for participating
				in an event and includes guarantees for cable pay per view, radio, television
				or motion picture rights.
(13) Ring
				Officials--Referees, judges, ringside physicians and timekeepers.
(14) Ringside Physician--An individual who
				has an unrestricted and unlimited license to practice medicine in this state
				and who by agreement, is assigned as the physician for a combative sports
				event.
(15) Second--A person who
				provides assistance or advice to a contestant during a contest.
(16) Technical Zone--An alcohol free area
				located between the ring and a department-approved barrier with access
				restricted to designated medical personnel and equipment; working officials
				including, managers, ring officials, contestants, seconds, the promoter,
				promoter representatives and assignees, round card staff, department staff,
				assigned contract inspectors, authorized members of the media, authorized
				members of the event's sanctioning bodies, and security personnel; and
				regulatory oversight authorities.
(17) Timekeeper--A person who is the official
				timer of the length of rounds/heats and the intervals between rounds/heats and
				counts when a contestant is down.