No person shall participate in a public boxing match or | 23 |
exhibition as a referee, judge, matchmaker, timekeeper, or | 24 |
contestant, or as a manager, trainer, or second of a contestant, | 25 |
unless such person is licensed under section 3773.41 of the | 26 |
Revised Code and otherwise complies with sections 3773.31 to | 27 |
3773.57 of the Revised Code. | 28 |
Sections 3773.31 to 3773.57 of the Revised Code do not apply | 29 |
to any boxing, karate, or wrestling match or exhibition conducted | 30 |
as part of an interscholastic or intercollegiate athletic program, | 31 |
or as part of an amateur athletic program sponsored by or under | 32 |
the supervision of the national amateur athletic union or the | 33 |
American olympic association in which all contestants are amateur | 34 |
boxers, amateur participants in a karate match or exhibition, or | 35 |
amateur wrestlers, or; to any boxing, karate, or wrestling match | 36 |
or exhibition conducted under the supervision or control of the | 37 |
Ohio national guard, the state militia, or reserve officers' | 38 |
associations in which all contestants are members of the guard, | 39 |
militia, or officers' association; or to any amateur boxing, kick | 40 |
boxing, karate, or wrestling event or exhibition conducted under | 41 |
the supervision of the fraternal order of police of Ohio, the Ohio | 42 |
association of professional firefighters, or the northern Ohio | 43 |
fire fighters, the proceeds of which benefit a charitable | 44 |
organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under | 45 |
subsection 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or a charitable | 46 |
organization that the fraternal order of police of Ohio, the Ohio | 47 |
association of professional firefighters, or the northern Ohio | 48 |
fire fighters supported before the effective date of this | 49 |
amendment. | 50 |