---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6312"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "6312"
heading: "Professional boxing matches conducted on Indian reservations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/6312"
units:
  - "Chapter 89 — Professional Boxing Safety"
---

# §6312. Professional boxing matches conducted on Indian reservations

- (a) **Definitions—** For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:
  - (1) **Indian tribe—** The term “Indian tribe” has the same meaning as in [section 5304(e) of title 25](/usc/25/5304.md?p=e).
  - (2) **Reservation—** The term “reservation” means the geographically defined area over which a tribal organization exercises governmental jurisdiction.
  - (3) **Tribal organization—** The term “tribal organization” has the same meaning as in section 5304(l) of title 25.
- (b) **Requirements—**
  - (1) **In general—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a tribal organization of an Indian tribe may, upon the initiative of the tribal organization—
    - (A) regulate [professional boxing matches](/usc/15/6301.md?p=8) held within the reservation under the jurisdiction of that tribal organization; and
    - (B) carry out that regulation or enter into a contract with a [boxing commission](/usc/15/6301.md?p=2-A) to carry out that regulation.
  - (2) **Standards and licensing—** If a tribal organization regulates [professional boxing matches](/usc/15/6301.md?p=8) pursuant to [paragraph (1)](#b-1), the tribal organization shall, by tribal ordinance or resolution, establish and provide for the implementation of health and safety standards, licensing requirements, and other requirements relating to the conduct of [professional boxing matches](/usc/15/6301.md?p=8) that are at least as restrictive as—
    - (A) the otherwise applicable standards and requirements of a [State](/usc/15/6301.md?p=10) in which the reservation is located; or
    - (B) the most recently published version of the recommended regulatory guidelines certified and published by the Association of [Boxing Commissions](/usc/15/6301.md?p=2-A).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–272, § 21, formerly § 13, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3313; renumbered § 21, Pub. L. 106–210, § 4(1), May 26, 2000, 114 Stat. 322.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1997, see section 23 of Pub. L. 104–272, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.