Section 39B Insurance on contestants
[ Text of section effective until February 28, 2010. For text effective February 28, 2010, see below.]
Section 39B. Any person licensed under section thirty-two to conduct boxing or sparring matches or exhibitions, except those persons to whom a special license may be granted thereunder without the requirement of a bond or of payment of the annual fee, shall take out a policy of accident insurance on each contestant participating in such match or exhibition in the amount of fifteen hundred dollars to compensate him for medical and hospital expenses incurred as the result of injuries received in such match or exhibition; and in the amount of five thousand dollars in the event of death to said contestant resulting from participation in such match or exhibition, said five thousand dollars to be paid to the estate of the deceased contestant. The premiums on said policies shall be paid by the licensee.
Chapter 147: Section 39B. Insurance on contestants
[ Text of section as amended by 2009, 169, Sec. 6 effective February 28, 2010. For text effective until February 28, 2010, see above.]
Section 39B. A person licensed under section 33 to conduct boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sport events, sparring matches or exhibitions, except those persons to whom a special license may be granted thereunder without the requirement of a bond or payment of the annual fee, shall take out a policy of accident insurance on each contestant participating in the match or exhibition in the amount of $5,000 to compensate him for medical and hospital expenses incurred as the result of injuries received in such match or exhibition and a policy in the amount of $50,000 to be paid to the estate of the deceased contestant in the event of death to the contestant resulting from participation in the match or exhibition. The premiums on the policies shall be paid by the licensee.