19 CRR-NY 208.8NY-CRR

STATE COMPILATION OF CODES, RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
TITLE 19. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
CHAPTER VII. STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION
PART 208. SPECIAL RULES FOR HEALTH, SAFETY AND INTEGRITY IN COMBATIVE SPORTS
19 CRR-NY 208.8
19 CRR-NY 208.8
208.8 Examination of combatant after injury.
All professional boxers and professional mixed martial artists shall receive a post-bout medical evaluation conducted by a physician designated by the commission immediately following their participation in any match or exhibition. Any professional boxer or mixed martial artist who has sustained any injury or actual knockout in a match or exhibition, shall receive appropriate medical examination and, where deemed necessary in the opinion of the physician, emergency treatment from the evaluating physician. Such physician may direct the professional boxer or mixed martial artist to a hospital or to another treating physician for additional medical treatment, as deemed appropriate in the professional medical opinion of the evaluating physician. Such examination and treatment may include, but shall not be limited to, any or all of the procedures as provided in section 208.2 of this Part or as is directed by the medical advisory board, the commission physician, the ringside physician and/or the commission. The commission may suspend such boxer or mixed martial artist until he or she is fully recovered and, similarly, may extend any such suspension already imposed.
19 CRR-NY 208.8
Current through October 15, 2021
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IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING CONTENT CURRENCY: JULY 31, 2023, is the date of the most recently produced official NYCRR supplement covering this rule section. For later updates to this section, if any, please: consult editions of the NYS Register published after this date; or contact the NYS Department of State Division of Admisnistrative Rules at [email protected]. See Help for additional information on the currency of this unofficial version of the NYS Rules.