5:2A-14.1 Events at casino hotels; licensure of promoter required.
5. No promoter shall hold or conduct any public boxing, wrestling, extreme wrestling, kick boxing or combative sports exhibition, event, performance or contest in a casino hotel which is licensed pursuant to or is an applicant for licensure pursuant to the "Casino Control Act," P.L.1977, c.110 (C.5:12-1 et seq.) unless the promoter is licensed as a casino service industry enterprise or is an applicant for licensure as a casino service industry enterprise pursuant to the "Casino Control Act," P.L.1977, c.110 (C.5:12-1 et seq.) or is registered as a vendor in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Casino Control Commission. Within one year of the effective date of this act, all seconds and managers and all promoters, other than those promoters who are applicants for licensure or who are licensed as a casino service industry enterprise under section 92 of P.L.1977, c.110 (C.5:12-92) or who are registered as vendors in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Casino Control Commission, shall undergo background checks conducted by the State Athletic Control Board prior to holding, conducting or participating in any public boxing, wrestling, extreme wrestling, kick boxing or combative sports exhibition, event, performance or contest in this State. Those promoters who are subject to background checks by the State Athletic Control Board pursuant to this section shall bear the costs involved in the conduct of such background checks.
The State Athletic Control Board may incur such expenses as are reasonable and necessary in conducting a background check authorized by this section. An amount equivalent to the expenses incurred shall be assessed as a fee against a promoter who is the subject of a background check by the State Athletic Control Board pursuant to this section and shall be collected by the State Athletic Control Board. The amount collected shall be deposited in a special account in the General Fund and this amount is hereby appropriated to the State Athletic Control Board in the Department of Law and Public Safety to reimburse the board for expenses incurred in conducting the background check.
The State Athletic Control Board shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the nature of and procedures concerning background checks to be conducted by the board pursuant to this section.
L.1988, c.20, s.5; amended 2000, c.124, s.12; 2009, c.36, s.30.
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