N.J.S. § 5:2A-18 Permit Required By Promoter

• Library: New Jersey Permanent Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through L. 2023, c. 194.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: N.J.S. § 5:2A-18

a. No boxing, wrestling, kick boxing or combative sports exhibition, event, performance or contest shall be held by any promoter unless the promoter shall have, at least two weeks before the holding of the same, notified the board, in such form, with such detailed information and at such place as the board may prescribe, of the proposed holding of the same, and shall, in addition to having a license as provided by section 14 of this act, have obtained from the board a permit in writing to hold the same. No permit shall be granted to any promoter who has been delinquent in paying a tax which has been assessed pursuant to section 20 of this act unless good cause is shown.

b. The board shall be notified, at least one week in advance, in such form and with such detailed information as the board may prescribe, that a boxing, wrestling, extreme wrestling, kick boxing or combative sports exhibition, event, performance or contest is to be telecast, televised or broadcast in any manner, including but not limited to television, radio or any transmission via a cable television system, as defined in section 3 of P.L. 1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-3), or any transmission via microwave, closed circuit, satellite, fiber optic link or any other method of limited distribution.

c. No person shall charge or receive an admission fee for exhibiting within this State a telecast of any boxing, wrestling, extreme wrestling, kick boxing or combative sports exhibition, event, performance or contest which occurs or has occurred within this State without a permit issued by the board. Permits are required for simultaneous telecasts, closed circuit telecasts, or any transmission of any kind, including but not limited to transmission via microwave, closed circuit, satellite or fiber optic link. As a condition of obtaining a permit, the board shall be furnished with all contracts and agreements pertaining to such transmissions.

d. The board shall be informed by the promoter when any boxing, wrestling, extreme wrestling, kick boxing or combative sports exhibition, event, performance or contest will be exhibited in any manner either within or without the State. As a condition of obtaining a permit, the board shall be furnished with all contracts and agreements pertaining to such exhibitions viewed either within or without the State.