1. A. The Department is hereby vested with jurisdiction to issue sanctioning permits for all professional boxing contests and professional exhibitions held or given within this state and licenses for participants of sanctioned contests and exhibitions.

2. B. Specifically exempt from the provisions of the Oklahoma Professional Boxing Licensing Act are the contests or exhibitions conducted or sponsored by:

   1. 1. Any school, college or university where the participants are students regularly enrolled in such institutions and the instructors, coaches and trainers are employees of such institutions. The term "school, college or university" shall not include a school or other institution whose principal purpose is to furnish instruction in boxing or sparring;
   2. 2. Any military installation or branch of the Armed Forces where the participants are employed by the military installation or are members of the branch of the Armed Forces sponsoring the contest or exhibition; and
   3. 3. Amateur boxing matches which are sanctioned by a nationally recognized amateur sanctioning body approved by the Department of Labor.

3. C. The following persons are specifically exempt from the provisions of the Oklahoma Professional Boxing Licensing Act:

   1. 1. Practitioners and instructors of the martial arts as defined in Section 602 [3A-602] of this title; and
   2. 2. Instructors of amateur boxers if such instructors are not required to be licensed pursuant to other provisions of the Oklahoma Professional Boxing Licensing Act.

Laws 1994, SB 1196, c. 240, § 6, eff. September 1, 1994; Amended by Laws 1995, SB 666, c. 202, § 4, emerg. eff. May 19, 1995.