ProRodeo Sports News - August 24, 2018

of the rodeo committee may set up the rodeo only if specifically, authorized, in writing, by the Primary Stock Contractor, and if such authorization is forwarded to the Central Entry Office prior to the scheduled time for setting up the rodeo. However, if the Primary Stock Contractor/rodeo committee representative has not contacted the Central Entry Office within one hour 30 minutes after entry closing time, the Central Entry Office will be allowed to set up the rodeo and draw positions, using the Central Entry Office’s discretion. Exceptions will be made only if the Primary Stock Contractor/rodeo committee representative has made arrangements with the Central Entry Office prior to entry opening time or if the rodeo has never before been sanctioned by the PRCA. The Director of Rodeo Administration shall have the authority to levy fines if a Primary Stock Contractor/rodeo committee representative fails to return a call at a mutually agreed time. (D. Petry submitted 2/17) PASSED 2019 Bylaw Proposals Change B16.1.4.1 Adoption or Amendment of an Existing Rodeo Rule on Initiative of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may, without prior action by the Competition Committee in accordance with Bylaw B16.1.2 (including with respect to proposals which have not been published in accordance with Bylaw B16.1.1), amend an existing Official Rodeo Rule or adopt a new Official Rodeo Rule, in the manner stated below. The Board may take such action by the affirmative vote or concurrence of at least seven Directors, provided that a quorum of at least five Contestant Representatives to the Competition Committee is present during the meeting of the Board of Directors where such proposal was adopted and that at least four such Contestant Representatives approve or concur in such proposal in a vote separate from that of the Board of Directors. For the 2018 rodeo year only, for any Official Rodeo Rule related in any manner to R.11.6.5 No Jerk Down, the board shall not be required to have a quorum of nor the approval or concurrence of any Contestant Representatives to the Competition Committee. For purposes of determining whether a quorum of Contestant Representatives is present, once five Contestant Representatives are all present at one time during the meeting, a quorum shall be deemed present for the remainder of the meeting; however, alternative representatives and proxies shall not be counted as Contestant Representatives in determining whether five Contestants are present. In connection with a vote by the Contestant Representatives, no alternative representative or proxy may vote on behalf of an absent Contestant Representative. PASSED Change B15.3.1 Featured Events. For any new featured event, no PRCA required event shall have more or less money added to that event’s purse than is added to the purse of any other PRCA event at a PRCA-approved rodeo unless otherwise approved by the PRCA Board of Directors or the Director of Rodeo Administration. However, a Rodeo Committee shall have the option of adding money to the purse for up to three events selected by the Rodeo Committee to be its featured event or events in an amount that is up to double the base money added by the Rodeo Committee to the purses of the other PRCA events approved for the rodeo (such base added money in the other events shall not, for purposes of determining the double money, include those events whose purse is compensated for limited entries). The rodeo committee must provide equal money in the team roping to use this option. Any additional moneys which may be added in order to double the purse of a featured event or events at the Rodeo Committee’s election shall not be considered by the Director of Rodeo Administration in the determination of the amount of “fair and just” money to be added by the Rodeo Committee to the purses of the other PRCA events. Moreover, any Rodeo Committee electing to increase double the added purse money in a given event or events may not, without the approval of the PRCA Board of Directors, reduce the base added money for the other PRCA events held at its rodeo from that which was added by the Rodeo Committee to those events in the previous year. (Ad hoc committee submitted 8/16) PASSED Change B15.5.2 Permit Members Required to Contest. All rodeos that add $2,000 $5,000 or less in purse money per event must accept Permit Members, pursuant to either “Circuit Permits,” “All Permits,” “Circuit Permits Maximum” or “Permits Maximum,” as contestants in each event; provided, however, that rodeos with four or more performances that add $2000 $5,000 or less in purse money per event are not required to accept Permit Members, under the terms specified in this Bylaw B15.5.2, as contestants in the timed events. (D. Petry submitted 4/16) PASSED Change B15.5.4 Special Status Rodeos. A Rodeo Committee adding $2,000 $5,000 or more in purse money per event may request, in its application for approval, that any of its rodeo events be granted “Circuit Permits,” “All Permits,” “Circuit Permits Maximum” or “Permits Maximum” status. (D. Petry submitted 4/16) PASSED Change B13.5.1.1 Barrelman. Barrelmen must be Financially Eligible and must have participated in at least eight PRCA- approved rodeos in the rodeo year that they apply for the NFR position with a minimum of 20 total performances in order to participate at the NFR. For purposes of this Bylaw, rodeos at which a Barrelman works only in a slack shall not count towards the minimum number of rodeos or performances required to participate at the NFR. A Barrelman Member may not work at the NFR unless he has filed an application, along with a list of rodeos he will work as a Barrelman during the rodeo year that he applies for a NFR position, with the Director of Rodeo Administration in accordance with this Section B13.5.1. Applications for the barrel man position to the NFR will be accepted by the Director of Rodeo Administration up to May 1 of the calendar year in which the NFR will be held. No later than October 15 (of the calendar year in which the NFR will be held) the top 20 bull riders and all financially eligible announcers and bullfighters that have participated in at least eight PRCA-approved rodeos with

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