39-17-1103 - Definitions for sports bribery.

39-17-1103. Definitions for sports bribery.

As used in § 39-17-1104, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (1)  “Sports contest” means any professional or amateur sport, athletic game, contest, or race involving machines, persons or animals, viewed by the public, or for which admission is charged;

     (2)  “Sports official” means any person who acts or expects to act in a sports contest as an umpire, referee or judge, or otherwise to officiate at a sports contest; and

     (3)  “Sports participant” means any person who participates or expects to participate in a sports contest as a player, contestant or member of a team, or as a coach, manager, trainer or other person directly associated with a player, contest or team.

[Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.]