2021 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 41 - Combative Sports
1008 - Licenses; Judges.

§  1008. Licenses; judges. 1. Except as otherwise provided in sections
  one thousand six and one thousand seventeen  of  this  article,  only  a
  person  licensed  by  the  commission,  as a combative sports judge, may
  judge an authorized  professional  combative  sport  within  the  state.
  Judges  for  any  authorized  professional  combative  sport  under  the
  jurisdiction of the commission shall be selected by the commission  from
  a list of qualified licensed judges maintained by the commission.
2.  Any  participant  in  a professional combative sport or his or her
  manager may protest the assignment of a  judge  to  a  contest  and  the
  participant or manager may be heard by the commission or its designee if
  such protest is timely. If the protest is untimely it shall be summarily
  rejected.
3.  Each  person  seeking  to be licensed as a judge by the commission
  shall be required to submit to or provide proof of  an  eye  examination
  and  annually  thereafter  on  the  anniversary  of  the issuance of the
  license.  The commission shall establish continuing  education  programs
  and  requirements to be completed by licensed judges. Each judge must be
  certified as having completed a training  program  as  approved  by  the
  commission and shall pass an examination approved by the commission.
4.  Each  person  seeking  a  license to judge authorized professional
  combative sports in the state shall be required to fill out a  financial
  questionnaire certifying under penalty of perjury full disclosure of the
  judge's  financial situation on a questionnaire to be promulgated by the
  commission. Such questionnaire shall be in a form and manner approved by
  the commission and shall provide information as to areas  of  actual  or
  potential conflict of interest as well as appearances of such conflicts,
  including  financial  responsibility.  Within  forty-eight  hours of any
  match, each judge of a professional combative sport shall file with  the
  commission  a  financial disclosure statement in such form and manner as
  shall be acceptable to the commission.