In addition to any other powers and duties authorized by law, the commission shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 to provide for the following:

(1) An appropriate method of ensuring that all financial obligations are met by a promoter who conducts, holds, or gives a boxing contest;

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 440-8.5

  • Boxing: means a contest in which the act of attack and defense is practiced with gloved fists by two contestants. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440-1
  • Commission: means the state boxing commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440-1
  • Contest: means match or exhibition. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 440-1
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
(2) A public record accounting for the distribution of all tickets provided to the commission by a promoter and anything else of value which is provided to the commission;
(3) Clinics or seminars on health and safety for licensees, as deemed necessary by the commission;
(4) A mandatory neurological examination for any boxer who is knocked out in a boxing contest, and an eye examination as part of a boxer’s annual medical examination;
(5) An automatic medical suspension from boxing for a period of time to be determined by the commission for any boxer who is knocked out from head blows or who has received a severe beating about the head. The period of time of the automatic medical suspension shall be based upon the severity of the beating received by the boxer;
(6) Procedures to evaluate the professional records and physician’s certification of each boxer participating in a professional boxing contest in the State and to deny authorization to a boxer to fight when the requirements of this paragraph are not met;
(7) Procedures to ensure that no boxer is permitted to box while under suspension from any boxing commission due to:

(A) A recent knockout or series of consecutive losses;
(B) An injury, any required medical procedure, or a physician’s denial of certification to box;
(C) Failure of any drug test; or
(D) The use of false aliases or falsifying or attempting to falsify official identification cards or documents relating to boxing;
(8) Procedures to review a suspension if appealed by a boxer, including an opportunity for a boxer to present contradictory evidence;
(9) Procedures to revoke a suspension if a boxer furnishes proof of sufficiently improved medical or physical condition or furnishes proof that the suspension was not, or is no longer, warranted by the facts; and
(10) Establishing a boxing registry and the issuance of an identification card to boxers.

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