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...No person who sponsors, promotes, or conducts a public boxing or wrestling match or exhibition shall do any of the following: (A) Knowingly permit a person less than eighteen years of age to participate in a public boxing or wrestling match or exhibition; (B) Knowingly permit gambling, betting, or wagering on the result of a contingency in connection with the match or exhibition; (C) Knowingly conduct or allow to ...

...exhibition in violation of the official rules that govern the particular sport.

...No person shall have any financial interest in a boxer competing on premises owned or leased by the person or in which the person is otherwise financially interested.

...Each person who conducts a public boxing or wrestling match or exhibition shall cause to be inserted into each advertisement of the match or exhibition the price of admission. Each ticket of admission to any such match or exhibition shall clearly bear the purchase price. No person shall sell such a ticket for a price greater than that printed on the ticket. No tickets shall be sold except from the box office on the ...

...No person licensed under section 3773.36 and issued a permit under section 3773.38 of the Revised Code shall sell and issue or cause to be sold or issued more tickets or invitations of admission to a public boxing or wrestling match or exhibition than, or admit to such match or exhibition a number of persons that exceeds, the authorized capacity of the facility or that part of the facility used for the match or exhib...

...The Ohio athletic commission shall appoint from among licensed referees, physicians, timekeepers, and judges the officials for public boxing matches and exhibitions held under sections 3773.31 to 3773.57 of the Revised Code. These officials shall be employed by the commission as provided in section 3773.56 of the Revised Code and shall be paid by the person conducting the match or exhibition.

...The Ohio athletic commission shall employ inspectors to attend each public boxing match or exhibition held under a permit issued under section 3773.38 of the Revised Code. Only one inspector shall be assigned to any one facility for any one match or exhibition. Any member of the commission may act as an inspector, and when acting as an inspector shall be paid as provided in this section. The inspector shall monitor ...

...The Ohio athletic commission may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew any license issued under sections 3773.31 to 3773.57 of the Revised Code if the licensee: (A) Has committed an act detrimental to any sport regulated by this chapter or to the public interest, convenience, or necessity; (B) Is associating or consorting with any person who has been convicted of a crime involving the sports regulated by the comm...

... exhibition. The commission shall adopt rules concerning the time of payment of such taxes. Such taxes shall be levied for the purpose of providing revenue with which the state may regulate boxing, kick boxing, karate, tough man contests or tough guy contests, wrestling, and any other form of boxing or martial arts. The commission, before granting a promoter's license under section 3773.36 of the Revised Code to any...

...If any person fails to make a report relating to a public boxing match or exhibition that is required under sections 3773.31 to 3773.57 of the Revised Code, or files a report under section 3773.54 of the Revised Code that the Ohio athletic commission finds unsatisfactory, the commission may examine or cause to be examined the books and records of such person. The commission may also subpoena and examine under oath an...

...The Ohio athletic commission may appoint an executive director and employ such persons as are necessary to administer sections 3773.31 to 3773.57 and Chapter 4771. of the Revised Code and fix their compensation. Such executive director and employees shall serve in the unclassified status and at the pleasure of the commission. All receipts received by the commission under sections 3773.31 to 3773.57 of the Revised C...

...The Ohio athletic commission and the commission's executive director shall not issue a license or permit to conduct public boxing or wrestling matches or exhibitions in a municipal corporation or the unincorporated portion of a township if the commission or the commission's executive director determines that the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or board of township trustees has in effect an ordinanc...

... of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license issued pursuant to this chapter.

...(A) Whoever violates section 3773.06 or 3773.50 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates section 3773.32, 3773.40, 3773.44, 3773.45, 3773.46, or 3773.47, division (A) of section 3773.54, or division (B) of section 3773.33 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (C) Whoever violates section 3773.48 or 3773.49 of the Revised Code is guilty o...

...requirements under this chapter and the rules adopted under this chapter and division (L) of section 3772.03 of the Revised Code are met. (I) "Management company" means an organization retained by a fantasy contest operator to manage a fantasy contest platform and provide services such as accounting, general administration, maintenance, recruitment, and other operational services. (J) "Material nonpublic informatio...

... is in compliance with this chapter and rules adopted by the commission under this chapter or division (L) of section 3772.03 of the Revised Code, the license shall be renewed for not more than three years, as determined by commission rule adopted under this chapter or division (L) of section 3772.03 of the Revised Code. (C) Notwithstanding division (B) of this section, the commission may investigate a licensee at ...

...The commission shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as are necessary to complete the functions and address the subjects enumerated in division (A) of this section. (A) The commission may adopt, and as advisable and necessary may amend or repeal, rules that include all of the following: (1) Prohibiting fantasy contest operator's employees, relatives living in the same household as those emplo...

...est operator to retain and maintain, in rules adopted by the commission under this chapter or division (L) of section 3772.03 of the Revised Code. (C) Each fantasy contest operator shall organize all required records in a manner that enables the commission to locate, inspect, review, and analyze the records with reasonable ease and efficiency and, upon request, provide the commission or its executive director, or ...

...A fantasy contest operator offering a fantasy contest in this state shall conduct sufficient auditing as determined by the commission.

...(A) A fantasy contest may not be offered on any kiosk or machine physically located in a retail business location. (B) A fantasy contest operator operating in this state shall not do any of the following: (1) Operate or offer a fantasy contest based upon any university, college, high school, or youth sporting event; ( 2) Allow the use of scripts unless the scripts are made readily available to all fantasy cont...

...The commission, in an adjudication conducted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may penalize, limit, condition, restrict, suspend, revoke, deny, or refuse to renew the license of any licensee or applicant. The commission may take into account any relevant aggravating or mitigating factors without in any manner limiting the authority of the commission to impose the level and type of discipline the commission cons...

...(A) Any information concerning the fantasy contest operator's internal procedures, personal information, financial information, trade secret information, and information protected by the attorney-client privilege submitted, collected, or gathered in relation to an application or license under this chapter is confidential and not subject to disclosure by any state agency or political subdivision as a record under sect...

...in accordance with this chapter and the rules adopted by the commission under this chapter or division (L) of section 3772.03 of the Revised Code are exempt from Chapter 2915. of the Revised Code.

...g ultimate authority over the rules and codes of conduct with respect to a sporting event and the participants in the sporting event. (Y) "Type A sports gaming proprietor" means a sports gaming proprietor licensed by the Ohio casino control commission to offer sports gaming through an online sports pool. (Z) "Type B sports gaming proprietor" means a sports gaming proprietor licensed by the Ohio casino control c...

...uires or allows the commission to adopt rules concerning sports gaming, the commission shall adopt those rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) The commission shall adopt rules that include all of the following: (1) Procedures for a sports gaming proprietor to accept wagers on a sporting event or series of sporting events; (2) The types of wagering tickets sports gaming proprietors are to use; (3) ...