PURPOSE: This rule defines the duties and responsibilities for judges for professional boxing, professional kickboxing, and professional full-contact karate.

1. (1) There shall be three (3) judges required for each bout. A bout will be scored on a ten (10)-point must system.
2. (2) The judges shall reach their decisions without conferring in any manner with any other official or person including the other judges of the panel. Each judge shall make out his/her scorecard in accordance with provisions of the rules governing professional boxing, professional kickboxing and professional full-contact karate. At the end of the round, the score shall be totaled and signed or initialed by each judge. The referee working the bout shall collect the scorecards after each round and hand them to the inspector.
3. (3) Any erasures or changes on the scorecard must be approved and initialed by the judge and inspector.
4. (4) Official scorecards from the office shall be used and retained in the custody of the inspector who will transmit them to the office for safekeeping.
5. (5) The judges selected for each bout shall be at the sole discretion of the office and such determination shall be final. The promoter is responsible for all compensation for the judges. The office shall set the amount of compensation to be provided to the judges.

6. (6) Before the office issues a judge’s license:

   1. (A) The applicant must:

      1. 1. Certify that s/he has read and under-

stands Missouri laws and rules. Upon such certification the applicant shall be deemed to have full knowledge and understanding of said laws and rules; and

1. 2. Have two (2) years of documented

experience judging boxing matches. It is not necessary that this experience be obtained by judging professional boxing, professional wrestling, professional kickboxing or professional full-contact karate.

1. (B) The office may require:

   1. 1. The applicant take and pass a written

test covering professional boxing, professional wrestling, professional kickboxing, and professional full-contact karate; and

1. 2. The applicant have a physical exami-

nation by a licensed physician to determine fitness to perform.

1. (7) The office may deny an application for licensure as a judge if the applicant fails to meet the qualifications specified herein or fails to pass the written examination if such an examination is required by the office.

AUTHORITY: section 317.006, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 40-4.080. Original rule filed April 30, 1982, effective Sept. 11, 1982. Rescinded and readopted: Filed March 2, 1989, effective May 11, 1989. Amended: Filed July 25, 1994, effective Jan. 29, 1995. Rescinded and readopted: Filed Nov. 15, 2001, effective May 30, 2002. Moved to 20 CSR 2040-4.080, effective Aug. 28, 2006.

*Original authority: 317.006, RSMo 1983, amended 1996.