Chap. 296.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7, as heretofore amended, of an
act entitled ‘‘An act to provide for a State Boxing and Wrestling Commission,
to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the expense of administering
this act; to authorize and empower counties, cities and towns to determine by
ordinance, referendum, or otherwise, when boxing and wrestling contests may be
held therein; to provide for boxing and wrestling contests for prizes or purses, or
where an admission is charged, and limiting such boxing contests to ten rounds
and wrestling matches by such rules as may be promulgated by the commission ;
to prescribe conditions under which licenses shall be issued and contests held;
to declare the amateur boxing and wrestling contests conducted heretofore shall
be subject to the provisions of this measure and under the sole jurisdiction of
such commission in all cases wherein an admission fee is charged spectators to
witness such amateur boxing and/or wrestling contests; to provide for licensing
and taxing such boxing and wrestling matches and providing for the distribution
of the moneys derived therefrom.”’, approved March 29, 1934, relating to licenses
for wrestling, boxing or sparring exhibitions. [H B 393]

Approved March 28, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section seven, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘An act to
provide for a State Boxing and Wrestling Commission, to prescribe
its powers and duties, and to provide for the expense of administering
this act; to authorize and empower counties, cities and towns to
determine by ordinance, referendum, or otherwise, when boxing and
wrestling contests may be held therein; to provide for boxing and
wrestling contests for prizes or purses, or where an admission iS
charged, and limiting such boxing contests to ten rounds and wrestling
matches by such rules as may be promulgated by the Commission; to
prescribe conditions under which licenses shall be issued and contests
held: to declare the amateur boxing and wrestling contests conducted
heretofore shall be subject to the provisions of this measure and
under the sole jurisdiction of such commission in all cases wherein an
admission fee is charged spectators to witness such amateur boxing
and/or wrestling contests; to provide for licensing and taking such
boxing and wrestling matches and providing for the distribution of
the moneys derived therefrom.’’, approved March twenty-ninth,
nineteen hundred and thirty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 7. No wrestling, boxing or sparring exhibition shall be
conducted by any club or organization except by license issued to
such club or organization by the commission. The application for a
license, as herein provided for, shall be in writing, and shall be ad-
dressed to the commission, and shall be verified by some officer of
the club, organization or corporation on whose behalf the application
may be made. Such application shall be accompanied by an annual
fee, which shall be twenty-five dollars in cities and counties of not
more than five thousand inhabitants and in towns of not less than
one thousand; fifty dollars in cities and counties of not more than
fifty thousand inhabitants; seventy-five dollars in cities and counties
of over fifty thousand and not more than seventy-five thousand in-
habitants; one hundred and twenty-five dollars in cities of over
seventy-five thousand and not more than one hundred and fifty
thousand inhabitants, and one hundred and seventy-five dollars ir
all cities of the State having a population of over on2 hundred anc
fifty thousand inhabitants. Upon the payment of such fee, such
applicant shall be authorized to hold professional boxi:1g or wrestling
matches without the payment of any additional licease fee in any
form to any city, town or county. Before any such permit or license
is granted to any club, organization or corporation wich shall have
filed an application as herein provided, to conduct pro’essional wrest-
ling or boxing matches, such applicant shall execute .1 bond in such
penalty as the Commission may determine, with surety approved by
the commission, conditioned for the payment of the taxes and penalties
herein imposed and for the fulfillment of contracts mzede with boxers
and wrestlers in accordance with the regulations of the commission,
which bond shall be filed with the commission.