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 392 Deposit of funds.

Short title.

PUBLIC LAW 4 5 4 - J U L Y 5, 1952

D.C., b o x i n g contests.

Payments to Commission.

Amateur contests.

Reports.

STAT.

§£0. 16. Hereafter, any collection which otherwise would be for depositing to the credit of an appropriation made from general, highway, water, special, or other funds of the District of Columbia, where such appropriation has lapsed, shall be deposited for covering to the credit of the appropriate fund of the District of Columbia as miscellaneous receipts. SEC. 17. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1953". Approved July 5, 1952. Public Law 454

July 5, 1952 [H.R. 5768]

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CHAPTER 577

AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate boxing contests and exhibitions in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved December 20, 1944.

Be if enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Vnited States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate boxing contests and exhibitions in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved December 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 823; title 2, ch. 12, D. C. Code, 1940 edition, Supp. VII), is amended by inserting between the first and second sentences the following: "The Commission is authorized in its sole judgment and discretion to assign to licensed professional promoters dates on which boxing contests may be held, and no licensed professional promoter shall hold any boxing contest on any date unless specifically authorized so to do by the Commission. When two or more promoters make application to hold separate boxing contests on an identical date not at the time of such application assigned to either or any of the promoters making such applications, the Commission shall, at a meeting open to the public, make its determination as to Avhether either or any of such applications will be granted, and if so, which, and in connection with such determination shall take into consideration the public interest, local demand, and the relative ranking of the boxers engaging in the proposed contests." SEC. 2. Section 9 of such Act is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 9. Every person holding or conducting any boxing contest for which an admission fee is charged or received, or for which revenue is received from the sale, lease, or other exploitation of radio, television, or motion-picture rights, or from other public presentations of such contest, or for which such fee is charged or received and such revenue is received, shall pay to the Commission a sum equal to the larger of the following: (a) An amount equal to 10 per centum of the gross receipts realized by such person as a result of holding or conducting such contest, including receipts derived from the sale of admissions to the contest, and receipts derived from the sale, leasing, or other exploitation of radio, television, or motion-picture rights and from other public presentation of such boxing contest, or (b) an amount equal to the total actual cost of compensation of personnel assigned by the Commission to supervise such contest: Provided, That no person holding or conducting any amateur boxing contest under the jurisdiction and with the sanction of the District of Columbia Association of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States shall be required to pay to the Commission any such sum which includes receipts derived from the sale, lease, or other exploitation of radio, television, or motion-picture rights relating to any such amateur boxing contest. Payments of money required by this section shall be accompanied by

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