As used in this chapter, the term:
(3.1) “Charitable organization” means an entity described by:
(9.1) “Kickboxing” means unarmed combat involving the use of striking techniques delivered with the upper and lower body and in which the competitors remain standing while striking.
(10.1) “Martial art” means any form of unarmed combative sport or unarmed combative entertainment that allows contact striking, except boxing or wrestling.
(10.2) “Matchmaker” means a person who is employed by or associated with a promoter in the capacity of booking and arranging professional matches, contests, or exhibitions between opponents or who proposes professional matches, contests, or exhibitions and selects and arranges for the participants in such events and for whose activities in this regard the promoter is legally responsible.
(11.1) “Original purchaser for personal use” means a person who buys one or more tickets with the intention of using the ticket or tickets solely for the use of the purchaser or the purchaser’s invitees, employees, and agents. An original purchaser who resells more than six tickets to the same athletic contest or entertainment event and who resells tickets to an athletic contest or entertainment event for more than 105 percent of their face value shall be rebuttably presumed to be engaging in the business of a ticket broker in any criminal prosecution or civil action, order, or penalty by the commission.
(11.2) “Patron boxing,” “patron wrestling,” or “patron martial arts” means boxing, wrestling, or martial arts that is not:
(11.3) “Pay per view” means a telecast for which a fee is required in addition to any other fee paid by the viewer for any other services of the telecaster.
(16.1) “Promotion of unarmed combat” means the organization, promotion, production, publicizing, or arranging of, or provision of a venue for, a competition of unarmed combat by a person who receives some compensation or commercial benefit from such competition.
(17.1) “Shidokan” means unarmed combat involving three separate, segregated rounds in which karate rules and techniques are exclusively used in one round, kickboxing rules and techniques are exclusively used in one round, and grappling rules and techniques are exclusively used in one round.
The term ticket broker shall not include the owner, operator, lessee, or tenant of the property in which an athletic contest or entertainment event is being held or the sponsor of such a contest or event or the authorized ticket agent of such persons.
Such term also means any amateur kickboxing match in which the competitors are not wearing protective gear.
History. Code 1981, § 43-4B-1 , enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 752, § 2; Ga. L. 2003, p. 774, §§ 23, 24; Ga. L. 2005, p. 984, § 1/SB 224; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 43/HB 142.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2005, former paragraph (10.2) was redesignated as present paragraph (11) and former paragraph (11) was redesignated as present paragraph (10.2); in paragraph (17.1), “in which” was substituted for “of which” near the beginning; in division (20)(C)(v), “kickboxing” was substituted for “kick boxing” near the middle; and, in division (20)(C)(vi), “or” was deleted from the end.
Administrative rules and regulations.
Professional boxing, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Athletic and Entertainment Commission, Chapter 85-1.
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