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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="4-101" title_number="4" title_name="Athletics" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Boxing” includes sparring.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Commission” means the State Athletic Commission.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Contest” means a boxing, kick boxing, or wrestling:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>competition;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>exhibition;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>match;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>performance; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>show.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Contest” includes a mixed martial arts:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>competition;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>match;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>performance; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>show.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Contest” does not include a mixed martial arts exhibition.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Contestant” means an individual who participates in a boxing, professional kick boxing, amateur kick boxing, professional mixed martial arts, or amateur mixed martial arts contest.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Mixed martial arts” means a competition in which contestants use interdisciplinary forms of fighting, including various forms of martial arts, involving:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>striking with the hands, feet, knees, or elbows; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>grappling by take–downs, throws, submissions, or choke holds.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Mixed martial arts exhibition” means mixed martial arts where:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>contact to the body is permitted in only a restrained manner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>contact to the head is not permitted; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>no contact is permitted that may result, or is intended to result, in physical harm to an opponent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
