Guidelines
1. The purpose of NCCC is to promote Paint Horses and to encourage participation at participating clubs' shows.
2. The only functions of NCCC are to keep points of participating club shows, collect membership dues and purchase Year End Awards. NCCC may hold fund raising raffles at shows.
3. The treasury account is to be used only for awards, printing, mailing and pointskeeper fees.
4. Treasury reports will be mailed quarterly to each participating club secretary to publish in the club's newsletter.
5. Participating clubs may rotate hosting the NCCC Awards Presentation. NCCC may not be the host.
6. Term of office for elected officials is January to January.
7. For officer elections, club reps will elect a Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer.
8. All information received by the chairman will be forwarded to the pointskeeper and secretary.
9. There will be at least three NCCC meetings of reps and committee members. Reps may represent only one club.
10. Voting: like CCC - the club reps bring suggestions from their club, then reps vote at NCCC meetings.
11. NCCC meeting minutes will be mailed or emailed to club secretaries and NCCC representatives
12. Point standings and membership lists will be posted at each NCCC approved show and on the NCCC website.
13. Show results must be submitted
to the pointskeeper within 20 days of the end of the show. Failure
to comply
may result in a $25. assessment.
14. In the event of a dispute, the NCCC reps shall interpret and make specific these rules, and their determination shall be final.
Eligibility
1. To compete for the NCCC awards, membership is required in at least one of the participating clubs. A copy of the registration papers of nominated horses must be submitted with membership application (even if you submitted papers last year, you must submit a new copy for this year). Current year foals must submit name and reg. number of sire and dam on nomination form and Regular papers must be submitted prior to the close of the last NCCC show. NO EXCEPTIONS!
2. NOMINATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS WILL BE ACCEPTED BY SHOW SECRETARIES AT APPROVED SHOWS PRIOR TO EXHIBITING. (as of 5/21/06) The $20.00 NCCC membership fee (single or family) plus $15.. per horse must be paid before points will count for that horse. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS! Leadline and Walk-Trot children will be included in their family membership as no horse needs to be specified.
3. Individual club and NCCC membership dues must be paid in full prior to a show for that show to count.
4. Youth and Amateur awards will be based on a one horse-one rider combination, except for leadline and walk-trot classes, where points will be earned by the rider rather than the horse.
5. Youth and Amateur or members of their immediate families must own their respective horses for the year-end award eligibility according to APHA rules. Open class points will be awarded based on APHA rules -- Sec. 2 under Elgibility (for membership) to apply. A lessee will be considered as the owner of a leased horse for the purpose of year end awards points. A copy of the lease must be sent to the NCCC Chairman.
6. For Open All Around Horse, all open performance and halter classes will count. Must earn a minimum of 5 points in performance AND a minimum of 5 points at halter to qualify.
7. Stake or Futurity classes will not count toward any year end award.
8. All outstanding debts owed to any participating club(s) must be paid by November 1. Participating clubs to notify NCCC of any outstanding bills owing.
Points
1. Points to be tabulated in the same manner as CCC, as published in the California Paint Horse Directory, except that NCCC will award extra points for Grand and Reserve Halter. - the same as APHA. (Excluding weanlings and yearlings).
2. Members must earn 5 points minimum to qualify for a year end per category award.
3. Ties will be broken in the following manner: 1) The horse that beat the other horse the most times in head-to-head competition. 2) The horse that competed in the least amount of classes. 3) The horse with the higher placings in a class throughout the approved shows. 4) If two or more horses are still tied after the above tiebreakers, an official tie will be declared and duplicate awards will be given.
4. Horses competing for 2 year old performance will receive points only for competing against 2 year olds. Example: If there are two 2 year olds in a Junior Trail class, the 2 year olds will receive only 1 or 2 points depending on how they place against each other and not the other horses in the class.
5. All shows sponsored by participating clubs will count for points (except for Paint-O-Ramas for 2006).
6. Decisions of the NCCC board of reps will be final. Submission of nomination form by applicant acknowledges that the applicant has read the NCCC guidelines and agrees to abide by them. By submission applicant also agrees to hold NCCC, it's volunteers and participating clubs, harmless for any legal or civil liability. NCCC is only an awards program and is not liable for any loss that a member feels they may have incurred due to discrepancies in points or the method used in tabulating them. NCCC reserves the right to refuse a nomination.