(1) Applicants for a seconds/corners license shall be at least 18 years of age and shall furnish to the board evidence of assisting at athletic events involving boxing, including:

(a) names and addresses of three references who can attest to ring experience; and

(b) names of contestants in whose corner the applicant previously assisted at ringside.

(2) Only three individuals shall be seconds/corners at an event and only one shall be designated as chief second.

(3) Only one second/corner shall be inside the ring between rounds.

(4) Licensed managers shall be permitted to act as seconds and shall comply with all rules of conduct pertaining to seconds.

(5) A wet sponge may be used to refresh the contestant. Excess water on the ring floor shall be wiped up by the seconds/corners before the start of the next round.

(6) Seconds/corners shall not either:

(a) enter the ring until the timer indicates the termination of a round; or

(b) spray or forcefully throw water on a contestant.

(7) Seconds/corners shall:

(a) leave the ring enclosure at the sound of the timekeeper's whistle ten seconds before the beginning of each round; and

(b) leave the ring platform and remove all obstructions, buckets, and stools promptly when the gong sounds at the beginning of each round.