ProRodeo Sports News - Dec. 21, 2018

Change B15.1.5 Limitation on Acceptance of Contestant Card Members. Other than the National Finals Rodeo, the National Circuit Finals Rodeo and any Circuit Finals Rodeo, a rodeo must be open for competition to all Contestant Card Members. unless specific limitations are set forth in the application for approval and are approved by the Director of Rodeo Administration and the Event Representative. If limitation is requested an approved qualifying event must take place prior to the event, All contestant card member must participate in the event to be eligible to enter the event. No contestant will be allowed to enter without participating in qualifier event regardless of standing or prior accomplishments. Approval must be voted on by the Event Representative and Director of Rodeo Administration. One year prior to the event and must be posted in the business journal prior to vote so that the member may voice their opinions so voting members can make a decision that represents the members. (C. Townsend submitted 4/18) Change B15.1.10 Special Consideration for Excess Entries. Any Rodeo Committee desiring special consideration to modify entry rules to alleviate an excess number of entries must request such special consideration on the application for approval, and such special consideration must be approved by the Director of Rodeo Administration. (C. Townsend submitted 4/18) own a minimum of 25 bareback horses, 25 saddle bronc horses and 25 bulls, a record of which must be submitted annually to the Director of Rodeo Administration two weeks prior to their first PRCA rodeo or PRCA sanctioned event or February 1, whichever is earlier. The Director of Rodeo Administration may require a Full Stock Contractor Member or Probationary Stock Contractor to submit proof of 100% 51% ownership of any or all bucking stock. Failure to provide proof of ownership when requested will result in a $250 fine and any animal in question will not be eligible to be placed in the draw at a PRCA sanctioned rodeo until proof of ownership is established. During the rodeo year, Stock Contractors will notify the Director of Rodeo Administration of any additions and/or deletions to the Stock Contractor livestock list a minimum of ten (10) days prior to any of those animals being placed in the draw at a PRCA rodeo or PRCA sanctioned event. Failure to notify the Director of Rodeo Administration of changes within the time frame listed above will result in the subject animals being ineligible to be placed in the draw at PRCA-sanctioned rodeos and a fine of $100 per animal. (H. Franzen submitted 6/18) Change B2.3.1 Number and Tenure. The Representatives to the Rodeo Committee Executive Council shall elect two persons to serve as the Rodeo Committee Directors on the Board of Directors. Such directors will be committee members representing a (any) PRCA sanctioned rodeo. Such directors shall be elected to serve a two-year staggered term such that one director will be elected each year. One director shall represent those rodeos for which the total of all added purse money for all PRCA rodeo events is $20,000 or less, and one director shall represent those rodeos for which the total of all added purse money for all PRCA rodeo events is greater than $20,000. (RC Executive Council submitted 5/18) New Bylaw B15.1.15.1 A rodeo committee adding less than $1000 per event, must have equal money in the team roping. (M. Egusquiza submitted 7/18) Change B15.1.15.1 Minimum Purse Money Added by a Rodeo. To receive PRCA approval, all Rodeo Committees must add at least $250 per required event (including the team roping heading and heeling), per performance, or $500 per required event at a one-performance rodeo. (M. Egusquiza submitted 7/18) 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 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). 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 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. If a rodeo features an event, they must add equal money in the team roping.  (M. Egusquiza submitted 7/18) Change B1.5.12.3.2 Other Requirements. A) Minimum Livestock. All Stock Contractors and Probationary Stock Contractors must

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