Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies
As used in sections 29-143j-1 to 29-143j-89, inclusive:
(a) "Amateur Boxing Association" refers to any amateur boxing organization or entity that has registered with the commissioner pursuant to Section 29-143j-76 of these regulations.
(b) "Amateur Boxer" means a boxer who has not engaged in boxing contests for money or as a means of livelihood. An amateur boxer may receive a trophy or other non-monetary award that does not exceed one hundred dollars in value.
(c) "Bout" means a match between two boxers.
(d) "Boxer" means a contestant in the sport or skill of fighting with the fist.
(e) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Public Safety.
(f) "Consultant" means a person, other than an attorney at law, that a boxer refers to for expert or professional advice.
(g) "Contest" means a series of bouts that consists of at least 26 scheduled rounds of boxing in which the boxers strive in good faith to win.
(h) "Dressing Room" means the area or room where a boxer puts on his boxing costume.
(i) "Exhibition" means a bout between two boxers where a winner or loser will not be determined, but where the boxers may display their skills.
(j) "Inspector" means any person designated by the commissioner to represent the commissioner at all boxing or sparring matches, contests or exhibitions pursuant to section 29-143j of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(k) "Manager" means any person, partnership, corporation or other business entity that performs at least one of the following functions:
(1) By contract, agreement, or other arrangement with any person, undertakes or has undertaken to represent in any way the interest of any other person in procuring, arranging, or conducting a boxing bout or contest or exhibition in which such person is to participate as a boxer;
(2) Directs or controls the boxing activities of any boxer;
(3) Receives or is entitled to receive more than 10% of the gross earnings of any professional boxer for any services relating to such boxer's participation in a professional boxing contest;
(4) Is an officer, director, or stockholder of any corporation which receives or is entitled to receive more than 10% of the gross earnings of any professional boxer for services relating to such boxer's participation in a professional boxing contest; or
(5) Acts as a consultant or an advisor relating to a professional or amateur boxer's participation in a boxing contest.
(l) "Matchmaker" means any person, partnership, corporation or other business entity that arranges the separate bouts for a boxing contest or exhibition.
(m) "Professional Boxer" means any person who competes for a money prize or purse in any boxing contest or exhibition.
(n) "Promoter" means any person, partnership, corporation or other business entity that produces, stages, arranges or furthers a boxing contest or exhibition.
(o) "Ringside" means the seating immediately abutting the ring where the officials, the commissioner and his representatives, and the press sit during a boxing contest or exhibition.
(p) "Round" means the period during which two boxers box.
(q) "School, College or University" refers to every school, college or university supported, whether or not supported in whole or in part from public funds, which is determined by the (Connecticut) State Board of Education to be maintained primarily for the giving of general academic instruction.
(r) "Sickness" and "Illness" mean any affliction of the body including the common cold, which deprives the body temporarily of the power to fulfill its usual functions.
(s) "Sparring" means all training conducted by a boxer in preparation for a bout, contest or exhibition and includes physical contact in a boxing ring.
(t) "Summary Suspension in accordance with Section 4-182 (c) of the General Statutes" means an immediate suspension of a license due to a finding that the health, safety or welfare of the licensee or the public imperatively requires emergency action.
(Effective June 21, 1991; Transferred and AmendedJuly 27, 2007)