Utah Code > Title 9 > Chapter 23 > Part 1 – General Provisions
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- Boxing: means the sport of attack and defense using the fist, which is covered by an approved boxing glove. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- Budget: means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal period which embodies estimates of proposed expenditures for given purposes and the proposed means of financing them. See Utah Code 10-6-106
- Check: means an order in a specific amount drawn upon a depository by an authorized officer of a city. See Utah Code 10-6-106
- City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Commission: means the Pete Suazo Utah Athletic Commission created by this chapter. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- Contest: means a live match, performance, or exhibition involving two or more persons engaged in unarmed combat. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- Contestant: means an individual who participates in a contest. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means any functional unit within a fund that carries on a specific activity, such as a fire or police department within a city general fund. See Utah Code 10-6-106
- Designated commission member: means a member of the commission designated to:
(a) attend and supervise a particular contest; and (b) act on the behalf of the commission at a contest venue. See Utah Code 9-23-101 - Director: means the director appointed by the commission. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- Exhibition: means an engagement in which the participants show or display their skills without necessarily striving to win. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- Judge: means an individual qualified by training or experience to:
(a) rate the performance of contestants; (b) score a contest; and (c) determine with other judges whether there is a winner of the contest or whether the contestants performed equally, resulting in a draw. See Utah Code 9-23-101 - Manager: means an individual who represents a contestant for the purpose of:
(a) obtaining a contest for a contestant; (b) negotiating terms and conditions of the contract under which the contestant will engage in a contest; or (c) arranging for a second for the contestant at a contest. See Utah Code 9-23-101 - Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Promoter: means a person who engages in producing or staging contests and promotions. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- Round: means one of a number of individual time periods that, taken together, constitute a contest during which contestants are engaged in a form of unarmed combat. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- Second: means an individual who attends a contestant at the site of the contest before, during, and after the contest in accordance with contest rules. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Ultimate fighting: means a live contest, whether or not an admission fee is charged, in which:
(a) contest rules permit contestants to use a combination of boxing, kicking, wrestling, hitting, punching, or other combative contact techniques; (b) contest rules incorporate a formalized system of combative techniques against which a contestant's performance is judged to determine the prevailing contestant; (c) contest rules divide nonchampionship contests into three equal and specified rounds of no more than five minutes per round with a rest period of one minute between each round; (d) contest rules divide championship contests into five equal and specified rounds of no more than five minutes per round with a rest period of one minute between each round; and (e) contest rules prohibit contestants from: (i) using anything that is not part of the human body, except for boxing gloves, to intentionally inflict serious bodily injury upon an opponent through direct contact or the expulsion of a projectile; (ii) striking a person who demonstrates an inability to protect himself from the advances of an opponent; (iii) biting; or (iv) direct, intentional, and forceful strikes to the eyes, groin area, Adam's apple area of the neck, and the rear area of the head and neck. See Utah Code 9-23-101 - Unarmed combat: means boxing or any other form of competition in which a blow is usually struck which may reasonably be expected to inflict bodily injury. See Utah Code 9-23-101
- Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
- Warrant: means an order drawn upon the city treasurer, in the absence of sufficient money in the city's depository, by an authorized officer of a city for the purpose of paying a specified amount out of the city treasury to the person named or to the bearer as money becomes available. See Utah Code 10-6-106