Texas Administrative Code
Title 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION
Part 4 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATION
Chapter 61 - COMBATIVE SPORTS
Section 61.10 - Definitions
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
The following words and terms have the following meanings:
(1) Badge--A department-issued credential provided to timekeepers, judges, referees and ringside physicians who officiate at combative sports events.
(2) Chief second--The second designated by the contestant as the primary advisor or assistant to the contestant.
(3) Code--The Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 2052, "Combative Sports".
(4) Contestant--Any participant, including a professional combative sports contestant, who competes in a combative sport event regulated by the Code.
(5) Deadwood--The numerical difference between tickets printed and tickets used.
(6) Federal Identification Card--A nationally recognized identification card issued by the National Boxing Registry or the National Mixed Martial Arts Registry required for competition in a combative sport event.
(7) Full Contact--Contact made while intentionally striking a blow with any part of the body to an opponent when the contact has the potential to temporarily disable or to injure an opponent.
(8) Knock-down--A knock-down occurs when any part of a contestant's body, other than the feet, contacts the floor of the ring or fighting area as a result of a blow struck to the contestant by an opponent.
(9) License or Registration--A document issued by the executive director permitting a person to participate at an event or perform a function regulated by the Code.
(10) Manager--A person who, under contract, agreement, or other arrangement with a contestant undertakes to directly or indirectly, control, or administer a professional combative sports contestant's affairs.
(11) Person--Any natural person, corporation, partnership, association or other similar entity.
(12) Purse--The financial guarantee or any other remuneration promised to contestants for participating in an event and includes guarantees for cable pay per view, radio, television or motion picture rights.
(13) Ring Officials--Referees, judges, ringside physicians and timekeepers.
(14) Ringside Physician--An individual who has an unrestricted and unlimited license to practice medicine in this state and who by agreement, is assigned as the physician for a combative sports event.
(15) Second--A person who provides assistance or advice to a contestant during a contest.
(16) Slap Fighting--A combative sport in which contestants take turns striking each other in the face with an open hand.
(17) Technical Zone--An alcohol free area located between the ring and a department-approved barrier with access restricted to designated medical personnel and equipment; working officials including, managers, ring officials, contestants, seconds, the promoter, promoter representatives and assignees, round card staff, department staff, assigned contract inspectors, authorized members of the media, authorized members of the event's sanctioning bodies, and security personnel; and regulatory oversight authorities.
(18) Timekeeper--A person who is the official timer of the length of rounds/heats and the intervals between rounds/heats and counts when a contestant is down.
