Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 9 > Chapter 23 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• 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