An Act Punishing Prize Fighting and Sparring or Boxing Exhibitions
Act No. 557, enacted on December 16, 1902, prohibits prize fighting and boxing exhibitions within the Philippine Islands. It criminalizes any involvement in such activities, including instigating, encouraging, or participating in fights, whether public or private, that charge admission fees. Offenders may face fines up to $2,500 or imprisonment for up to one year and one day, or both, at the court's discretion. The law emphasizes the urgency of its enactment for the public good and takes effect immediately upon passage.
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Act No. 557
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Statutes
- Subcategory
- Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
December 16, 1902
ACT NO. 557
AN ACT PUNISHING PRIZE FIGHTING AND SPARRING OR BOXING EXHIBITIONS
SECTION 1. Any person who within the Philippine Islands engaged in, instigates, aids, encourages, or does any act to further a contention or fight with or without weapons between two or more persons, or a fight commonly called a ring or prize fight, or who engages in a public or private sparring or boxing exhibition, with or without gloves, at which an admission fee is charged or received, either directly or indirectly, or who sends or publishes a challenge or acceptance of a challenge for such a contention, exhibition, or fight, or carries or delivers such a challenge or acceptance, or trains or assists any person in training or preparing for such a contention, exhibition, or fight, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year and one day or both, in the discretion of the court.
SECTION 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, December 16, 1902.
Cite This Law
An Act Punishing Prize Fighting and Sparring or Boxing Exhibitions, Act No. 557, Dec 16, 1902 (Philippines)
An Act Punishing Prize Fighting and Sparring or Boxing Exhibitions, Act No. 557 (Phil. 1902)
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