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Town of Collierville

Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts

PARTICIPANT BEHAVIOR POLICY

The Town of Collierville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department will enforce the following policy for all participants in any Town of Collierville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department event, program or on any town facility.� Participants will include players, all coaches, parents, spectators, league administrators, volunteers and all officials, on and off the field, involved in all programs; recreation, athletic, special events; taking place on Town of Collierville facilities or any athletic and/or recreational event or special event sponsored by the Town of Collierville, Town of Collierville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, and/or any organization sponsored by or bonded by service provider with the Town of Collierville.

UNRULY BEHAVIOR

The Town of Collierville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts defines unruly behavior to be any Offensive language; verbally taunting players, officials, coaches, staff, league administrators, spectators; publicly berating players, officials, coaches, staff, league administrators, spectators; repeatedly yelling out instructions from the sidelines against coaches and/or officials wishes; any other action deemed unruly by any staff or official of Town of Collierville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts.

CONSEQUENCES

Unruly behavior occurring on the playing field between players and coaches will be dealt with by verbal warnings by on field officials (however, warnings are optional if official feels behavior of participant warrants immediate ejection).� Warning of a participant includes all participants (listed above).� Warnings will not be issued to individual participants.� If unruly behavior continues following warning, guilty participant will be ejected from the event.�

< If guilty participant cannot be determined, head coach will be ejected from game.� If unruly behavior continues, and guilty participant can still not be determined, assistant coaches will be ejected, if there are no assistant coaches, the participant at the top of team lineup will be ejected and so on until game becomes forfeit.

< If team forfeits game due to mass number of ejections, entire team is suspended for the next game, which will be declared a forfeit.

< Any participant ejected from an event must exit the facility immediately.� Failure to do so will cause for legal action that could involve Town of Collierville Police Department.

< Participant ejected must serve an additional one (1)-event suspension from next scheduled event of any Town of Collierville or Town sponsored program.

Any participant ejected (for any reason) will be placed on six months probation.� Any unruly behavior or ejection during this probation period will cause for additional suspension for a length of time determined by the Collierville Athletic Department.� Suspension could include dismissal from any and/or all Town of Collierville facilities for any event.� Persistent ejections, suspensions or unruly behavior over any length of time will/can result in an indefinite suspension for a time set forth by the Collierville Athletic Department.

A participant may apply for reinstatement into a program or event by filing a report/request with the Collierville Athletic Department. This report will then be forwarded to the Collierville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Advisory Board for review.� At that time the participant may request to be placed on the agenda for the next Advisory Board meeting.� At no time may a participant participate in an event or program during an appeal of a suspension.

The Advisory Board will then vote to reinstate participant, uphold suspension or extend suspension under guidelines set forth by the Advisory Board and the Collierville Athletic Department.�

< Staff, league administrators, officials and/or organization providing a service with the Town of Collierville for unruly behavior can suspend any participant.

< Unruly behavior in defense of unruly behavior warrants the same punishment if determined by the Collierville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department.� Remain calm in reaction to an unruly participant and encourage staff and/or league administrators to intervene.

IT IS THE DUTY OF ALL GAME OFFICIALS (UMPIRES, REFEREES, SCORE KEEPERS) LEAGUE ADMINISTRATORS, STAFF AND ANY TOWN OFFICIALS TO REACT TO A PARTICIPANT DISPLAYING AUNRULY BEHAVIOR.� THE COLLIERVILLE PARKS, RECREATION AND CULTURAL ARTS DEPARTMENT WILL DETERMINE CONSEQUENCES FOR THESE ACTS.

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