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     624.66 Endurance contests.  


    Subdivision 1.    Marathons prohibited.  It shall be 
 unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to advertise, 
 operate, maintain, attend, promote, or aid in the advertising, 
 operating, maintaining, or promoting of any mental or physical 
 endurance contest exhibition, performance, or show in the nature 
 of a "marathon," "walkathon," "skatathon," or any other such 
 endurance contest of a like or similar character or nature, 
 whether under that or other names, whether or not an admission 
 is charged, for a period longer than 24 hours unless a rest 
 period for contestants of at least five hours begins each 
 subsequent 24 hour period.  


    Subd. 2.    Exceptions.  Nothing in this section shall 
 apply to the continuance of bicycle-riding contests of no longer 
 duration than six days, the ordinary amateur or professional 
 athletic events or contests, or high school, college, and 
 intercollegiate athletic sports.  


    Subd. 3.    Penalty.  Any person, firm, or corporation 
 participating in, attending, or promoting any such contest and 
 violating any of the provisions of this section, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor. 


    HIST: (10267-1,10267-2) 1935 c 228 s 1,2; 1975 c 250 s 1

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