Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 137

STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION

RELATING TO PARTICIPANTS IN BOXING, SPARRING OR

WRESTLING MATCHES OR EXHIBITIONS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 164 OF THE REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, BY REPEALING ALL OF 5522 SEC. 12 THEREOF AND SUBSTITUTING AND ENACTING IN LIEU THEREOF A NEW SECTION TO BE KNOWN AS 5522 SEC. 12, RELATING TO PARTICIPANTS IN BOXING, SPARRING OR WRESTLING MATCHES OR EXHIBITIONS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 164 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, is hereby amended, by striking out and repealing all of 5522 Sec. 12. and by substituting and enacting in lieu thereof a new section to be known as Section 5522 Sec. 12.

5522. Sec. 12. Age of Participants and Spectators:--No person under the age of eighteen years shall participate in any professional boxing, sparring, or wrestling match, or exhibition; and no person under the age of sixteen years shall participate in any amateur boxing, sparring or wrestling .match or exhibition; and no children under sixteen years of age shall be permitted to attend as spectators unless accompanied by their parents or guardians. '