NY State Department unclear on their own law:

Representatives of US Wushu Union, one of the major Chinese martial arts bodies in the US, contacted Joshua Toas, the Assistant Secretary of State of New York.

Toas said HIS (important to note that different parts of the NY government have different interpretations of the same law) interpretation was that "professional martial arts bouts" were in which either the participant is specifically paid to compete or in which prize money was awarded. These were under the jurisdiction of the Athletic Commission.

However, he also stated that theoretically, amateurs should NOT fall under this set of laws BUT he admitted that this point needed to be clarified.

Toas gave the US Wushu Union contact info for Hugo Spindola, the Counsel of the Athletic Commission.

Toas is under the (FALSE) impression the NYSAC will then simply add the US Wushu Union onto the list of the 12 sanctioned organizations. As US Wushu Union has not yet spoken to NYSAC, it remains to see what will happen when Spindola refuses to add them to the list, as he has other organizations.

The NYSAC may be run by some of the dumbest people in the world, the WKA apparently has been approved, but only after they submitted their rules, they copied the IKF rules and sent them in.... but IKF remains illegal

sounds like the grounds for a lawsuit