SECTION 92:10-1-4. Licenses process

(a)   All participants must apply for and be issued a license before participating in an event.

(b)   Each applicant for a license shall request an official application from the Commission. The Commission will not process any application for a license that does not contain the proper fee and all information required from the applicant. All licenses expire on June 30 of each year following the date of issuance.

(c)   Each participant shall consistently use the same name in events. Each participant shall provide the Commission with the participant's legal name and the name to be used in events, if any.

(d)   The license fees and permit fees shall be:

(1)   Professional Promoter - $250.00

(2)   Combative Sports Practitioner Fee - $30.00

(3)   Referee Fee - $50.00

(4)   Judge - $50.00

(5)   Matchmaker - $150.00

(6)   Second - $25.00

(7)   Announcer - $20.00

(8)   Timekeeper - $40.00

(9)   Vendor - $50.00

(10)   Event Permit Boxing - $50.00

(11)   Event Permit MMA - $100.00

(12)   Event Permit Wrestling - $50.00

(13)   National MMA ID Cards - $20.00

(14)   Federal Boxer ID Cards - $20.00

(15)   Replacement License, Permit or ID - $15.00

(16)   Fight Fax Records - $5.00 per record requested

(e)   Applicants must provide a residence or business address at the time of application and inform the Commission in writing of any change of address. An applicant whose license or permit is returned to the Commission office because of an incorrect address, or whose application is not legible forfeits the fee that has been paid and must submit a new application and pay a replacement fee in order to be issued a license or permit.

(f)   Applicants shall provide the Commission with identification showing proof of age.

(g)   Any person whose license is lost or stolen may obtain a replacement from the Commission.

(h)   No license issued under the Act or these rules shall be transferable.

(i)   Applicants for licensure as combative sports practitioners in boxing, kickboxing or MMA who are 40 years of age or older shall attach to their application the following:

(1)   the results a thorough physical examination administered by a Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) on a form provided by the Commission;

(2)   a Dilated Ophthalmologic Examination;

(3)   a Brain MRI

(4)   a Cardiac Stress Echo; and

(5)   a Cardiac Stress Test.

(j)   The examinations and tests required by this subsection shall be dated no more than One Hundred Eighty (180) days prior to the date of the event. The application shall be submitted to the Commission at least ten (10) days prior to the date of the event. The Commissioner who has experience in sports medicine, or a physician certified by the Association of Ringside Physicians approved by the Commission, shall review the application. The Executive Director shall deny the application if the Commissioner or approved physician determines that competing in a combative sports event poses an undue risk to the applicant's health or safety.

(k)   If an application is denied under subsection (i) of this section, the applicant may file a written request within ninety (90) days for the denial to be reviewed by the Commission at its next regularly scheduled meeting. The Commission may in its discretion reverse the denial and approve the application. The review shall not constitute an individual proceeding under the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act.

[Source: Added at 17 Ok Reg 2286, eff 6-26-00; Amended at 19 Ok Reg 1583, eff 4-24-02 (emergency); Amended at 20 Ok Reg 2277, eff 7-11-03; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 59, eff 4-17-06 through 7-14-07 (emergency); Amended at 28 Ok Reg 2208, eff 7-25-11; Amended at 30 Ok Reg 1528, eff 7-25-13; Amended at 34 Ok Reg 848, eff 9-11-17]

Note

EDITOR’S NOTE: This emergency action expired without being superseded by a permanent action. Upon expiration of an emergency amendatory action, the last effective permanent text is reinstated. Therefore, on 7-15-07 (after the 7-14-07 expiration of the emergency action), the text of 92:10-1-4 reverted back to the permanent text that became effective 7-11-03, as was last published in the 2006 Edition of the OAC, and remained as such until amended by permanent action on 7-25-11.

AGENCY NOTE: On April 29, 2013, proposed amendments to 92:10-1-5, which included the deletion of subsection (d) regarding event permit fees, were gubernatorially disapproved. On May 24, 2013, proposed amendments to 92:10-1-4, which included the establishment of event permit fees in subsection (d) of the rule, were approved by House Joint Resolution 1062. As a result, 92:10-1-4(d) and 92:10-1-5(d) contain event permit fees of differing amounts. The fees in 92:10-1-4(d) are the later enacted fees.