PRCA Buisness Journal - April 2, 2021

event. (I. Diaz 4/20) New R3.2.3.4 A bucking horse that is in the draw eight or more times in a single event within a rodeo season and is turned out 100% of the time, that horse can no longer be in the draw at any PRCA events. (I. Diaz 4/20) 2022 Bylaw Proposals Change B10.7.3 Contract Personnel. With the exception of riding groups and specialty act personnel under the age of majority, all Contract Personnel and freestyle bullfighters hired by a Rodeo Committee or Stock Contractor in connection with a PRCA-approved rodeo shall be Noncontestant Card Member-Contract Personnel. A Rodeo Committee, Rodeo Producer or Stock Contractor which hires non-Member Contract Personnel or freestyle bullfighters will be subject to a $1000 fine per rodeo, per individual hired, except in the case of Timers and pickup men. Using a non-Member Pickup Man or non-Member Timer will result in a fine of $250 per rodeo. (M. Mathis submitted 5/19) Change B9.4.3 Circuit Points and Standings. Circuit Points for all PRCA approved rodeos held within a Circuit shall be awarded, excluding any rodeo adding greater than $10,000 per event. Standings shall be tabulated for each Circuit based on Circuit Points awarded within a particular Circuit to Contestant Card Members or Permit Members who have chosen that particular Circuit as their Designated Circuit. Separate PRCA Circuit points for heading and heeling in the Team Roping event will be kept, with a year-end Circuit champion in each. (M. Reeves submitted 5/19) Change B10.4 Finals. A Rodeo Committee requesting to hold a finals in its rodeo must add at least $12,500 $30,000 purse money to each event which has a finals and have equal money in the team roping. In order to maintain a finals, a Rodeo Committee must increase its purse money by a minimum of 5% per year each year following initially adding $12,500 in purse money per event. Once the added purse money per event reaches $20,000 a Rodeo Committee is not required to add any more money in order to continue with a finals. If a Rodeo Committee has a finals in one or more events, the Rodeo Committee must add no less than half of the money offered in the event with a finals to each of the remaining PRCA required events. W. Sankey & J. Crawley 9/19 Change B10.1.15 Events A rodeo must include at least five of the following events: bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding, tie-down roping, steer wrestling and or team roping to be approved. If a rodeo committee chooses to include only five of the six events above, committee added money from the sixth event must be evenly distributed among the remaining five events or applied evenly toward another event sanctioned or recognized by the PRCA. (G. Williams 1/20) Change B10.7.6 Judges’ Fees. A Rodeo Committee shall pay to the PRCA $225 $300 per performance per judge. A Bull riding special section will be considered a performance and require an additional $225 $300 per judge. Rodeo Committees will also be required to pay $1 per judge per run in the slack. This fee These fees are is in addition to the fees paid by the sponsors and contestants. Rodeo Committees will be charged an amount equal to the per diem paid per judge required to be at the rodeo prior to the day of the first performance or any days between performances in which no rodeo activity takes place. (PRCA Staff 3/20) Change B8.3.2 Qualification to Provide Riding Event Livestock. To qualify to provide riding event livestock to the NFR, a Stock Contractor must serve as the Primary Stock Contractor at three PRCA approved rodeos with a minimum accumulated total of $50,000 in added prize money, or five PRCA approved rodeos with a minimum accumulated total of $25,000 in added prize money during the corresponding Rodeo Year. If a PRCA approved an approved barrel race is held at that PRCA approved rodeo, barrel racing prize money will be included in the accumulated total. (PRCA Staff 3/20) Change B2.5.13.6.1 Transfer of Stock Contracting Firm. Only a Full Stock Contractor’s PRCA membership card may be transferred to a new firm (individual, partnership, corporation or other legal entity), and only in connection with the sale of all or substantially all of the transferring firm’s livestock, equipment, rodeo contracts and other business assets to the transferee firm, with the transferee firm continuing the stock contracting business as a going concern. Such sale must include a minimum of 25 bareback horses, 25 saddle bronc horses and 25 bulls. In the case of qualifying sale transaction, the transferee Stock Contractor will be required to satisfy the requirements for Probationary Stock Contractors and the prospective new owner must be inspected by the PRCA and pay a non-refundable inspection fee of $2,500 to the PRCA prior to inspection to cover the PRCA’s anticipated costs in connection with that inspection, in order to have the transferred card reissued to the transferee’s designated operating officer. In addition, as a condition to the transfer and re-issue of the Stock Contractor card in question, the PRCA shall require (i) that all debts owed by the transferor to the PRCA are paid in full, and (ii) proof of bill of sale for all riding event livestock involved in the sale transaction and may require review of all terms and provisions of the contract documents concerning the transferor’s sale of all or substantially all of its business assets as a going concern to the transferee as well as all other contractual relationships created or affected in connection with the transfer of the subject Stock Contractor

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