North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 14B - Public Safety
Chapter 10 - BOXING AUTHORITY
Section .0400 - PERMITS, LICENSING AND CONTRACTS
Section 10 .0406 - DUTIES OF REFEREES
Current through Register Vol. 38, No. 18, March 15, 2024
(a) If, during the course of a match, the referee receives an injury or is unable to continue acting in his capacity as referee, the representative shall:
(b) A person who has financial or pecuniary interest in any contestant shall not be granted a referee license.
(c) A referee shall not be licensed as a promoter, manager, matchmaker, or contestant, nor shall he act as a promoter, manager, matchmaker or, contestant.
(d) A referee shall not act as a referee at any boxing, kickboxing, toughman or mixed martial arts match in this State unless the match is held in accordance with the Rules in this Chapter.
(e) Prior to being issued a license in accordance with Chapter 143, Article 68 of the North Carolina General Statues, each referee shall:
All assigned referees must submit to a pre-match medical examination by a physician for general physical fitness. The Division representative shall ensure that this requirement is fulfilled the day of the match.
(f) Prior to the beginning of each match, and periodically for the duration of the match, the referee shall examine the contestants' gloves, equipment, and person to ensure that no unsafe or improper conditions exist. Before allowing a match to continue after a contestant has been knocked down, the referee shall wipe clean the surface of the gloves of the contestant who was knocked down.
(g) When a contestant receives an injury which the referee believes may incapacitate the contestant, the referee shall call time out and consult with the physician as to the advisability of allowing the match to continue. A person shall not attempt to render aid to a contestant who has been counted out during the course of a match before the physician has examined the contestant. However, the referee may remove the contestant's mouthpiece.
(h) The referee may:
(i) The referee shall not touch the contestants, except for the failure of either or both contestants to obey the break command.
(j) The referee's remarks shall be limited to instructions to the contestants and to the chief seconds.
Authority
G.S.
143-652.1;
143-655;
Temporary
Adoption Eff. January 1, 1996;
Recodified from
18 NCAC
09 .0106 Eff. April 1, 1996;
Eff.
April 1, 1996;
Transferred and recodified from
18 NCAC
09 Eff. November 8, 2002;
Amended
Eff. November 1, 2004;
Amended Eff. March 1, 2008 (recodified from
14A NCAC
12 .0111(l));
Transferred from
14A NCAC
12 .0406 Eff. June 1, 2013;
Pursuant to
G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. January 9,
2018.