1. (a) Before each bout, the referee shall call the contestants and their chief seconds together for final instructions. The referee shall hold the chief second responsible for his contestant's conduct during the contest. Referees must instruct contestants that wrestling and rough tactics will not be tolerated and to protect themselves at all times. The contestants, after receiving final instructions, shall shake hands and retire to their corners. They shall not shake hands again until the beginning of the last round.
2. (b) The referee may stop a fight during or between rounds because of an injury or a contestant's poor physical condition. He may also stop a fight and make a decision to disqualify both contestants if he feels they are not boxing in earnest.
3. (c) When a low blow incapacitates a contestant, the referee shall give him a reasonable time to recover. The referee may confer with the ringside physician. No contestant may be awarded a contest on a low-blow foul claim. If a contestant falls to the ring floor or otherwise shows an unwillingness to continue because of a low-blow claim, he shall be declared the loser by a technical knockout.
4. (d) When a punch knocks a contestant down, the referee shall order the opponent to go to the ring's farthest neutral corner, pointing to the corner, and immediately pick up the timekeeper's count. He shall audibly announce the passing of the seconds, accompanying the count with upward motions of his arm for each second and indicating the count with visual finger counts after each second. The referee shall stop counting if the opponent does not remain in the neutral corner until the count is complete. No contestant who is knocked down shall be allowed to resume boxing until the referee has finished counting to eight. If a contestant who is down rises before the count of eight and goes down again without being struck, the referee shall resume the count where he stopped. When a round, other than the last round, ends before a contestant who was knocked down rises, the bell shall not ring, and the count shall continue. If he rises before the count of eight, the bell shall ring and end the round. The referee's count is the official one.
5. (e) If a contestant leaves the ring during the one-minute period between rounds and is not in the ring to resume boxing when the bell rings, the referee shall count that contestant out as if he were down.
6. (f) If a contestant who has been knocked out of the ring or has fallen out of the ring during the contest fails to return immediately, the referee shall count him out as if he were down. Seconds shall not help contestants back into the ring.
7. (g) If during the first three rounds a contestant is pushed, knocked, or falls out of the ring, is injured by the fall and is unable to return, the referee will declare the bout a technical draw. If it happens during later rounds, all completed rounds shall be scored and the boxer ahead on points shall be declared the winner by technical decision.
8. (h) When the referee's or judges's decision has been announced, both contestants and their seconds shall leave the ring immediately.

Source Note:The provisions of this §61.105 adopted to be effective June 4, 1992, 17 TexReg 3782.