This is getting at little OT. I know this isn't Texas Law, but this is California's definition:The Annoyed Man wrote:If they get paid to ride, it is still a professional sporting event. PRCA is merely the sanctioning body. They don't have a monopoly on what is professional rodeo, and what isn't. An analogy would be professional football in the days before there was an NFL or AFL. If you get paid to play, whether or not it is your primary source of income, you're a professional. Amateurs don't get paid.
New York's is different. This part of the law is for disrupting a sporting event, but it's interesting to note that they even include team practice. It more along the lines of defining an amusment park in Texas."Professional sporting event" means a scheduled sporting event
involving a professional sports team or organization or a professional athlete for which an admission fee is charged to the public.
Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. Major venue sporting event. An athletic competition or practice involving a professional team or an athletic competition or practice being conducted in a venue with a permanent seating capacity of more than five thousand. The duration of such competition or practice is to include the period from the opening of the venue's gates to the public, to the closing of the gates after the event.