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| AN ACT concerning professional regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Professional Boxing Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Sections 6 and 12 as follows:
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| (225 ILCS 105/6) (from Ch. 111, par. 5006)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2012)
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| Sec. 6. Prohibitions. All boxing matches, contests, or | 9 |
| exhibits in which
physical contact is made including, but not | 10 |
| limited to, "ultimate fighting
exhibitions", are prohibited in | 11 |
| Illinois unless authorized by the Department.
This provision | 12 |
| does not apply to the following:
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| (1) Boxing contests or wrestling exhibitions conducted | 14 |
| by accredited
secondary schools, colleges or universities, | 15 |
| although a fee may be charged.
Institutions organized to | 16 |
| furnish instruction in athletics are not included in
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| exemption.
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| (2) Amateur boxing matches sanctioned by the United | 19 |
| States Amateur Boxing
Federation, Inc. or Golden Gloves of | 20 |
| America, amateur wrestling exhibitions,
and amateur or | 21 |
| professional martial arts or kick boxing.
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| The Department shall have the authority to determine | 23 |
| whether a contest or exhibition is an exempt martial arts or | 24 |
| kick boxing event for purposes of this Section. In determining | 25 |
| whether a contest or exhibition is an exempt martial arts or | 26 |
| kick boxing event the Department shall consider, but not be | 27 |
| limited to, the following factors: | 28 |
| (i) whether the event is sanctioned by a body | 29 |
| independent of the promoters of the contest or exhibition; | 30 |
| (ii) whether the sanctioning body is exclusively or | 31 |
| primarily dedicated to advancing the sport of kick boxing | 32 |
| or martial arts; |
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| (iii) whether the sanctioning body limits | 2 |
| participation in its events to its registered members; | 3 |
| (iv) whether the sanctioning body has a record of | 4 |
| enforcing the rules governing a contest or exhibition; | 5 |
| (v) the record for safety of the sanctioning body; | 6 |
| (vi) the record for safety of the promoters of the | 7 |
| contest or exhibition; | 8 |
| (vii) whether the promoter of the contest or exhibition | 9 |
| has a record of enforcing and abiding by the rules | 10 |
| governing a contest or exhibition; and | 11 |
| (viii) whether the rules for the contest or exhibition | 12 |
| provide substantially similar protections for the health, | 13 |
| safety and welfare of the contestants and spectators as | 14 |
| this Act and its rules.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-408, eff. 1-1-00 .)
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| (225 ILCS 105/12) (from Ch. 111, par. 5012)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2012)
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| Sec. 12. Contests
Boxing contests . Each boxing contestant | 19 |
| shall be examined
before entering the
ring and immediately | 20 |
| after each contest by a physician
licensed to practice
medicine | 21 |
| in all of its branches. The physician
shall determine, prior to
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| the contest, if each contestant is physically fit to engage in | 23 |
| the contest.
After the contest the physician shall examine the | 24 |
| contestant to
determine
possible injury. If the contestant's | 25 |
| physical condition so indicates, the
physician shall recommend | 26 |
| to the Department immediate medical suspension.
The physician | 27 |
| may, at any time during the contest, stop the contest to
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| examine a boxer, and terminate the contest when, in the | 29 |
| physician's opinion,
continuing the contest could result in | 30 |
| serious injury to the boxer. The
physician shall certify to the | 31 |
| condition of the contestant in writing, over
his signature on | 32 |
| blank forms provided by the Department. Such reports shall
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| submitted to the Department in a timely manner. The physician | 34 |
| shall be
paid by the promoter a fee fixed by the Department. No | 35 |
| boxing contest shall
be held unless a physician licensed to |
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| practice medicine in all of its branches
is in attendance.
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| No contest shall be allowed to begin unless
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| physician and 2 trained paramedics or 2 nurses who are trained
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| to administer emergency medical care are present.
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| No contest shall be more than 12 rounds in length. The | 6 |
| rounds
shall not
be more than 3 minutes each with a one minute | 7 |
| interval between them, and
no boxer shall be allowed to | 8 |
| participate in more than 12 rounds
within
72 consecutive hours. | 9 |
| At each boxing contest there shall be a referee in
attendance | 10 |
| who shall direct and control the contest. The referee, before
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| each contest, shall learn the name of the contestant's chief | 12 |
| second and
shall hold the chief second responsible for the | 13 |
| conduct of his assistant
during the progress of the contest.
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| There shall be 2 judges in attendance who shall render a | 15 |
| decision at the
end of each contest. The decision of the | 16 |
| judges, taken together with the decision
of the referee, is | 17 |
| final; or, 3 judges shall score the contest with the
referee | 18 |
| not scoring. The method of scoring shall be set forth in rules.
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| Judges, referees, or timekeepers for contests shall be
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| assigned by the Department. The Department or its | 21 |
| representative shall have
discretion to declare
a price, | 22 |
| remuneration,
or purse or any part of it belonging to the | 23 |
| contestant withheld if in the
judgment of the Department or its | 24 |
| representative the contestant
is not honestly competing.
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| Department shall have the authority to prevent a contest or | 26 |
| exhibition
from being held and shall have the authority to stop | 27 |
| a fight for noncompliance
with any part of this Act or rules or | 28 |
| when, in the judgment of the Department,
or its representative, | 29 |
| continuation of the event would endanger the health,
safety, | 30 |
| and welfare of the contestants or spectators. The Department's | 31 |
| authority to stop a fight contest or exhibition on the basis | 32 |
| that the fight would endanger the health, safety, and welfare | 33 |
| of the contestants or spectators shall extend to any fight | 34 |
| contest or exhibition, regardless of whether that fight contest | 35 |
| or exhibition is exempted from the prohibition in Section 6 of | 36 |
| this Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-408, eff. 1-1-00; 92-499, eff. 1-1-02.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 3 |
| becoming law.
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