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fines if a Primary Stock Contractor/rodeo committee representative fails to return a call at a mutually agreed time. (PRCA Staff submitted 8/16) Change R7.3.2 Ineligibility Period. At the time a contestant doctor releases, he must indicate whether the mandatory ineligibility period shall last 4, 10 days or 30 days. Ineligibility period shall begin the first day of competition after notification to the Central Entry Office of the intended doctor release and shall continue through the period of 4, 10 days or 30 days following the first scheduled competition of the rodeo or rodeos for which the contestant doctor releases. During a rodeo year, a contestant may not designate more than two ineligibility periods which last less than 30 days. All subsequent ineligibility periods shall automatically last 30-days. (G. Williams submitted 11/16) Change R7.3.1 Procedure. A contestant may doctor release, thus waiving all obligations for entry fees, turn-out fines, and mount monies, provided: A) Contestant has an injury or illness which prevents him from competing in one or more events for which he is entered at a rodeo; B) Contestant notifies the Central Entry Office of the intended doctor releases no later than three hours prior to the performance for which the contestant’s first go-round competition is scheduled (with contestant responsible for listing all rodeos in which he is scheduled to compete within the 4, 10- or 30-day ineligibility time period described below); and C) A medical doctor verification can only be submitted by a licensed medical doctor, physician’s assistant, nurse practitioner or any member of the Sports Medicine Team at a rodeo. The doctor’s verification must be on the attending medical practitioner’s on doctor’s letterhead bearing the doctor’s attending practitioner’s name, address and phone number, signed by a the attending licensed medical doctor, physician’s assistant, nurse practitioner or any member of the Sports Medicine Team at a rodeo. This release is to be is received by the PRCA National Office within seven days of the date of the last performance of the first rodeo for which the contestant doctor released. Failure to submit such a doctor’s verification will result in a fine equal to the entry fees for the event in question plus an additional $50. (PRCA Staff submitted 2/17) Change R1.3 Setting Up the Rodeo. Generally, a rodeo shall be set up by that rodeo’s Primary Stock Contractor. A representative 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  no later than 15 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. Within 30 minutes after the entry closing time, the Central Entry Office will have the rodeo set up.  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)  2019 Bylaw Proposals Change B15.3.1 Featured Events. 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) 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)

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Change B15.5.4 Special Status Rodeos. A Rodeo Committee adding $2,000 $5,000 or more in purse money per event may

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