15 U.S.C. § 6305: Registration

Summary

Each professional boxer must register with a boxing commission. If the boxer lives in a State with a commission, they must register there. If the boxer lives in another country or in a State without a commission, they may register with any State that has a commission. The commission must give the boxer an ID card with a recent photo, the boxer’s Social Security number (or a similar ID number for foreign boxers), and a personal ID number from a boxing registry. The boxer must renew the card at least once every 4 years and show it by the weigh-in for a match. When giving the ID card, the commission should also give a health and safety notice. That notice should explain the health risks of boxing, especially the risk and how common brain injuries are, and advise that boxers get regular medical checks to look for brain injury.

Title 15, §6305

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(a)Requirements

Each boxer shall register with—

(1)the boxing commission of the State in which such boxer resides; or

(2)in the case of a boxer who is a resident of a foreign country, or a State in which there is no boxing commission, the boxing commission of any State that has such a commission.

(b)Identification card

(1)Issuance

A boxing commission shall issue to each professional boxer who registers in accordance with subsection (a), an identification card that contains each of the following:

(A)A recent photograph of the boxer.

(B)The social security number of the boxer (or, in the case of a foreign boxer, any similar citizen identification number or professional boxer number from the country of residence of the boxer).

(C)A personal identification number assigned to the boxer by a boxing registry.

(2)Renewal

Each professional boxer shall renew his or her identification card at least once every 4 years.

(3)Presentation

Each professional boxer shall present his or her identification card to the appropriate boxing commission not later than the time of the weigh-in for a professional boxing match.

(c)Health and safety disclosures

It is the sense of the Congress that a boxing commission should, upon issuing an identification card to a boxer under subsection (b)(1), make a health and safety disclosure to that boxer as that commission considers appropriate. The health and safety disclosure should include the health and safety risks associated with boxing, and, in particular, the risk and frequency of brain injury and the advisability that a boxer periodically undergo medical procedures designed to detect brain injury.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2000—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 106–210, § 7(c), substituted “4 years” for “2 years”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–210, § 7(f), added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1997, see section 23(2) of Pub. L. 104–272, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.

§6305 Registration