90A.1 - DEFINITIONS.
90A.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Boxer registry" means an entity certified by the
association of boxing commissions for the purpose of maintaining
records and identification of boxers.
2. "Commissioner" means the state commissioner of athletics,
who is also the labor commissioner appointed pursuant to section
91.2, or the labor commissioner's designee.
3. "Official" means a person who is employed as a referee,
judge, timekeeper, or match physician for a boxing or wrestling match
event.
4. "Participant" means a person involved in the boxing or
wrestling match event and includes contestants, seconds, managers,
and similar event personnel.
5. "Professional boxing or wrestling match" means a boxing or
wrestling contest or exhibition open to the public in this state for
which the contestants are paid or awarded a prize for their
participation.
6. "Promoter" means a person or business that does at least
one of the following:
a. Organizes, holds, advertises, or otherwise conducts a
professional boxing or wrestling match.
b. Charges admission for the viewing of a professional boxing
or wrestling match received through a closed-circuit, pay-per-view,
or similarly distributed signal. Section History: Early Form
[C71, 73, 75, 77, § 727A.1; C79, 81, § 99C.1] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, §944
C87, §90A.1
91 Acts, ch 137, §1; 97 Acts, ch 29, § 1; 99 Acts, ch 68, §13
Referred to in § 90A.4, 90A.11