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AN ACT
RELATING TO BUSINESS LICENSES; PROVIDING FOR JURISDICTION OF
AMATEUR MIXED MARTIAL ARTS CONTESTS; EXPANDING DEFINITIONS;
AMENDING AND ENACTING SECTIONS OF THE PROFESSIONAL ATHLETIC
COMPETITION ACT; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. Section 60-2A-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1980,
Chapter 90, Section 2, as amended) is amended to read:
"60-2A-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Professional
Athletic Competition Act:
A. "board" means the medical advisory board;
B. "commission" means the New Mexico athletic
commission;
C. "contestant" means a person who engages in
unarmed combat for remuneration;
D. "department" means the regulation and licensing
department;
E. "foreign co-promoter" means a promoter who has
no place of business in this state;
F. "manager":
(1) means a person who:
(a) undertakes to represent the
interests of another person by contract, agreement or other
arrangement in procuring, arranging or conducting a
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professional contest or exhibition in which the represented
person will participate as a contestant;
(b) directs or controls the activities
of an unarmed combatant relating to the participation of the
unarmed combatant in professional contests or exhibitions;
(c) receives or is entitled to receive
at least ten percent of the gross purse or gross income of
any professional unarmed combatant for services relating to
the participation of the unarmed combatant in a professional
contest or exhibition; or
(d) receives compensation for services
as an agent or representative of an unarmed combatant; and
(2) does not include an attorney who is
licensed to practice law in this state if the attorney's
participation in any of the activities described in Paragraph
(1) of this subsection is limited solely to the legal
representation of a client who is an unarmed combatant;
G. "professional boxer" or "professional wrestler"
means an individual who competes for money, prizes or purses
or who teaches, pursues or assists in the practice of boxing,
wrestling or martial arts as a means of obtaining a
livelihood or pecuniary gain;
H. "professional contest" means any professional
boxing, wrestling or martial arts contest or exhibition,
whether or not an admission fee is charged for admission of
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the public;
I. "promoter" means any person, and in the case of
a corporate promoter includes any officer, director or
stockholder of the corporation, who produces or stages any
professional boxing, wrestling or martial arts contest,
exhibition or closed circuit television show;
J. "purse" means the financial guarantee or any
other remuneration, or part thereof, for which professional
boxers or professional wrestlers are participating in a
contest or exhibition and includes the participant's share of
any payment received for radio broadcasting, television or
motion picture rights;
K. "ring official" means any person who performs
an official function during the progress of a contest or
exhibition;
L. "unarmed combat" means boxing, wrestling,
martial arts or any form of competition in which a blow is
usually struck that may reasonably be expected to inflict
injury; and
M. "unarmed combatant" means:
(1) a person who engages in unarmed combat
in a contest or exhibition, whether or not the person
receives remuneration, including a wrestler, boxer, mixed
martial artist or other contestant; or
(2) an amateur boxer who is registered with
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United States amateur boxing, incorporated, or any other
amateur organization recognized by the commission and
participates in an amateur boxing contest or exhibition in
the state that is registered and sanctioned by United States
amateur boxing, incorporated or golden gloves of America."
Section 2. A new section of the Professional Athletic
Competition Act is enacted to read:
"JURISDICTION OF COMMISSION OVER UNARMED COMBAT
CONTESTS.--
A. The commission shall have sole direction,
management, control and jurisdiction over all contests or
exhibitions of unarmed combat to be conducted, held or given
within New Mexico, and no contest or exhibition may be
conducted, held or given within the state except in
accordance with the provisions of the Professional Athletic
Competition Act.
B. Any contest involving a form of Oriental
unarmed self-defense must be conducted pursuant to rules for
that form that are approved by the commission before the
contest is conducted, held or given in the state except in
accordance with the provisions of the Professional Athletic
Competition Act."
Section 3. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
peace, health and safety that this act take effect
immediately.