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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 09.14.03.02" title_num="09" subtitle_num="14" chapter_num="03" heading="Contract Between Promoter and Contestant.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>A contract between a promoter and a contestant shall include the following provisions:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The amount of guarantee or percentage promised by the promoter to the contestant;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The number and time limit of rounds;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The time and location that the contestants are scheduled to appear;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Weight specifications of the contestants;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>A prohibition against the contestant engaging in a contest at least 14 days before the contest stated in the contract;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Legal rights and obligations of the contracting parties;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>A provision stating that:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Drug testing is mandatory in boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts contests sanctioned by the State Athletic Commission;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Signing the contract is consent to submit to drug testing supervised by the Commission;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Refusing to submit to the urine test subjects a contestant to disciplinary action by the Commission; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Testing positive for prohibited drugs:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Is cause for a contestant to forfeit the purse set; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Subjects a contestant to disciplinary action by the Commission; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>The contestant agrees to comply with all laws, regulations, and directives of the Commission.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Unless the Commission otherwise approves, contracts for main event contestants shall be filed with the Commission with the request for sanction.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Unless the Commission otherwise approves, contracts for other contestants in a contest shall be submitted to the Commission not later than 5 business days before the date of the contest.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>A promoter may not pay a purse specified in the contract until the Commission gives written approval to the promoter.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Unless the Commission otherwise approves, a contestant, or a manager on behalf of a contestant, may not obligate a contestant to participate in any boxing, kickboxing, or mixed martial arts contest within 14 days before or after a date on which the contestant participates or is contracted to participate in another contest.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>For the purposes of this regulation, the promoter-contestant contract received first in time by the Commission prevails over any other promoter-contestant contract.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Failure to Appear.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Except as provided below, if a contestant absents himself from a contest for which the contestant is contractually obligated to participate, the contestant and the manager of the contestant are subject to disciplinary action.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If a contestant is unable to fulfill a contract due to a physical disability, the contestant shall be placed on medical suspension until the Commission receives documentation of the contestant's physical disability signed by a licensed physician. Upon the expiration of the suspension, the contestant shall fulfill the contract against the same opponent or similar opponent within a reasonable amount of time as set by the Commission, unless the contestant obtains a written release from the contract by the promoter.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>If a contestant presents a valid written excuse for not fulfilling the contract, the contestant shall, when the reasons necessitating the excuse no longer apply, fulfill the contract against the same opponent or a similar opponent within a reasonable period of time.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>