ABSTRACT
The relationship between legal concerns and sport facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Effects of the legal environment on sport facility operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Legal principles and standards related to facility management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
How much legal expertise is enough? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Chapter review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
The purpose of this chapter is to explore the relationship between legal issues and sport facility operations. This chapter is not intended to provide someone with indepth legal expertise. It is also not intended to provide specific laws that are pertinent to sport facility management, as the global objective of the book would make much of that information useless to the reader based on their location. However, it is intended to articulate the effects of the legal environment on sport facilities. One of the major misconceptions in sport facilities is that risk management and sport law are the same. This is untrue, especially as related to the focus of this section of the text – the implementation of management and operations (risk management is action item, and will be covered in depth in the next section of the book in Chapter 12). This chapter will provide an overview of the major legal principles and standards related to the management and operations of sport facilities including negligence/unintentional torts, criminal law/intentional torts, contract law, and marketing-based legislative issues including intellectual properties and ambushmarketing.The chapterwill concludewithabrief discussionabout the level of legal expertise a sport facility owner and manager should have, and when they should defer to individuals with a higher level of proficiency in the law.
Sport law and sport facility management have a significant relationship, including some of the issues already discussed in this book:
