Except as expressly permitted by Sections
5.48.020 to
5.48.040, no person shall conduct, carry on or engage in any boxing contest or sparring or wrestling match or exhibition for prizes of purses or to which an admission fee is received, within the City.
(Prior code §10.1)
A. Amateur
boxing contests or amateur sparring or wrestling matches or exhibitions
or any combination thereof, conducted by or participated in exclusively
by any school, college or university or by any association, or organization
composed exclusively of such schools, colleges or universities when
each contestant in any such contest, match or exhibition is a bona
fide student regularly enrolled for not less than half-time in such
school, college or university are hereby permitted and allowed to
be held upon the grounds of any such school, college or university
or within the C-2 Commercial Zone or less restrictive zone as set
forth in the Zoning Ordinance of the City or in Laguna Field or Pershing
Field within the City.
B. As used
in this section, "school, college or university" shall mean every
school, college or university supported in whole or in part from public
funds and every other school, college or university which is determined
by the State Board of Education to be maintained primarily for the
giving of general academic instruction.
(Prior code §10.2; Ord. 3140 §1, 1966)
Boxing contests, sparring and wrestling matches or exhibitions
for prizes or purses, or where an admission fee is received, are hereby
allowed within the City within any M-1 industrial district of the
City and within Pershing Field of the City and within the so-called
Laguna Field of the City, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the
State Athletic Commission, which Commission shall have the sole direction,
management and control over all such contests, matches or exhibitions
to be conducted, held or given within the City.
(Prior code §10.3)
Every person, before exercising any of the privileges conferred by Section
5.48.030 shall obtain from the City Treasurer, a permit to conduct any boxing contests, sparring or wrestling matches or exhibitions where an admission fee is received, and for such permit shall pay to the City Treasurer in advance, a fee of $50.00. The permit, when issued, shall entitle the permittee to conduct such contests, matches or exhibitions for a period of 90 days after the date of issuance, subject to the rules, regulations and orders of the State Athletic Commission; provided further, that each permittee shall employ the number of Policemen designated by the Chief of Police, and shall maintain the officers on duty at or about the premises at least one hour prior to and throughout any boxing contest, sparring or wrestling match or exhibition which may be conducted within the City. The officers must be appointed by the Chief of Police.
(Prior code §10.4. Editor's note—The ordinance
from which this section was derived was an initiative measure voted
by the citizens on April 1, 1936)