The following words and terms have the following meanings:

1. (1) Amateur--A person who engages in a contest or exhibition where no cash prize is awarded to participate and who has never received any purse or other article of value, other than the maximum amount established by an amateur organization recognized by the Department.
2. (2) Bout /or contest--A combative sporting event wherein contestants use their best effort to prevail through knockout, technical knockout, judges decision, pinning or any other manner authorized by the Commissioner.
3. (3) Chief second--The second designated by the contestant as the primary advisor or assistant to the contestant.
4. (4) Code--The Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 2052, "Combative Sports".
5. (5) Combative Sport--Boxing, wrestling, kick boxing, shoot wrestling, pancration fighting/wrestling, shoot fighting/wrestling or any form of competition in which a blow is struck which may reasonably be expected to inflict injury.
6. (6) Commission--The Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation.
7. (7) Contestant--A boxer, wrestler, kickboxer, shoot wrestler/fighter, pancration wrestler/fighter or any other participant who competes in a combative sport, contest, bout, exhibition or match for remuneration.
8. (8) Deadwood--The numerical difference between tickets printed and tickets used.
9. (9) Event--An organized series of individual contests or bouts.
10. (10) Executive Director--Chief Executive Officer for the Department whose statutory title is Commissioner.
11. (11) License--A document issued by the Commissioner permitting a person to participate at an event or in a particular profession or trade.
12. (12) Manager--A person who, under contract, agreement, or other arrangement with a contestant undertakes to directly or indirectly, control, or administer the contestant's professional affairs.
13. (13) Matchmaker--One who arranges matches for professional contestants.
14. (14) Person--Any natural person, corporation, partnership, association or other similar entity.
15. (15) Purse--The financial guarantee or any other remuneration promised to contestants for participating in a contest and includes guarantees for cable pay per view, radio, television or motion picture rights.
16. (16) Promoter--Any person or entity that produces, stages, arranges, advertises or conducts a combative sport contest.
17. (17) Ring Officials--Referees, judges, physicians and timekeepers.
18. (18) Ringside Physician--An individual licensed to practice medicine by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners.
19. (19) Second--A person who provides assistance or advice to a contestant during a contest.
20. (20) Shoot (or shooto) wrestling/fighting or Pancration (or Pankraton, Pankration) wrestling/fighting--A form of full contact martial arts in which opponents may, while standing strike with the open hand, kick, wrestle, throw, grapple and submit.
21. (21) Timekeeper--A person who is the official timer of the length of rounds/heats and the intervals between rounds/heats and counts when a contestant is down.

Source Note:The provisions of this §61.10 adopted to be effective October 1, 2000, 25 TexReg 9941.