N.Y. BSW Law § 17

* § 17. Revocation or suspension of licenses. (a) Any license issued\nunder the provisions of this act may be revoked or suspended by the\ncommission for the reason therein stated, that the licensee has, in the\njudgment of the commission, been guilty of an act detrimental to the\ninterests of boxing or wrestling generally or to the public interest,\nconvenience or necessity.\n (b) Without otherwise limiting the discretion of the commission as\nprovided in this act, the commission may suspend or revoke a license or\nrefuse to renew or issue a license, if it shall find that the applicant,\nor any person who is a partner, agent, employee, stockholder or\nassociate of the applicant, has been convicted of a crime in any\njurisdiction, or is associating or consorting with any person who has or\npersons who have been convicted of a crime or crimes in any jurisdiction\nor jurisdictions, or is consorting or associating with or has consorted\nor associated with bookmakers, gamblers or persons of similar pursuits,\nor has himself engaged in similar pursuits, or is financially\nirresponsible, or has been guilty of or attempted any fraud or\nmisrepresentation in connection with boxing, or has violated or\nattempted to violate any law with respect to boxing in any jurisdiction\nor any rule, regulation or order of the commission, or shall have\nviolated any rule of boxing which shall have been approved or adopted by\nthe commission, or has been guilty of or engaged in similar, related or\nlike practices.\n (c) No such contestant may, under any circumstances, compete or appear\nin such a match, exhibition or noncompetitive boxing within ninety days\nof having suffered a knockout in any such match or exhibition, or within\nforty-five days of having suffered a technical knockout where there is\nevidence of head trauma as determined by the attending commission\nphysician and shall undergo such examinations as required under section\ntwenty-five of this chapter. The contestant shall be considered\nsuspended from boxing by the commission and shall forfeit his license to\nthe commission during such period and such license shall not be returned\nto the contestant until the boxer has met all requirements, medical and\notherwise, for reinstatement of such license. All such suspensions shall\nbe recorded in the boxer's license by a commission official. For\npurposes of this section noncompetitive boxing shall include any contact\ntraining or sparring.\n (d) The commission may at any time suspend, revoke or deny a boxer's\nlicense or temporary working permit for medical reasons.\n (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission may\nrevoke any license issued under the provisions of this chapter if it\nshall find that the licensee has knowingly and intentionally engaged in\nany prohibited practices, as prescribed by the commission in rules and\nregulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision 5 of section 23 of this\nchapter, during a boxing or sparring match or exhibition.\n (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any other state\nshall revoke a licensee's license to box in that state based on a\nknowing and intentional engagement in any prohibited practices of such\nstate, the commission may act to revoke any license to box issued to\nsuch licensee pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.\n * NB Repealed September 1, 2016\n