[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Woodbury Heights 1-16-02 by Ord. No. 3-2002. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Editor's Note: Former Ch. 110, Zoning, adopted 9-14-59 and readopted as amended 5-23-77 by Ord. No. 4-1977, was superseded 7-3-79 by Ord. No. 6-1979. See Ch. 70, Land Development.
A written specification of the behavior of parents, guardians,
coaches and officials prepared by each sports team which must, at
a minimum, incorporate the terms of the within chapter and must be
consented to in writing by the parents and legal guardians of the
minor participants of each youth sports team.
Any competition, practice or instructional event involving
one or more youth sports teams.
Any sports organization organized pursuant to a nonprofit
or similar charter which is affiliated with or received monetary or
other support or services from the Borough of Woodbury Heights or
regularly utilizes any facilities owned, operated, or maintained by
the borough, which sports organization participates in sporting competitions
involving minors.
Every sports team shall be required to establish an athletic
Code of Conduct incorporating, at a minimum, the requirements of this
chapter.
The parents and guardians of each child participating in a sports
team shall be required by the sports team to execute an agreement
acknowledging receipt of said sports team Code of Conduct and agreeing
to be bound thereby.
A.Â
Any parent, guest, spectator, coach or official at any youth sports
event who initiates a fight, scuffle, or any type of physical abuse
or threats of abuse towards any player, coach, official, parent, or
spectator shall be banned from attendance at all youth sports events
within the Borough of Woodbury Heights for a period not exceeding
12 months from the date of the incident.
B.Â
Any parent, guest, spectator, coach or official at any youth sporting
event who enters the field of play, court, or rink during any youth
sporting event for the purpose of physically or verbally abusing or
confronting coaches, players or officials shall be banned from attendance
at all youth sports events within the Borough of Woodbury Heights
for a period not exceeding 12 months from the date of the incident.
C.Â
Any parent, guest, spectator, coach or official at any youth sports
event who verbally abuses officials, players or spectators including
the use of obscene or profane language or gestures, racial, ethnic
or sexual slurs may be banned from all youth sports events for a period
not exceeding 12 months from the date of the incident and shall be
subject to such discipline as provided for by the applicable sports
team's Code of Conduct.
D.Â
Any parent, guest, spectator or official at any youth sports event
who throws or causes to be deposited any object on the field of play,
court, or rink during any youth sports event may be banned from attendance
at all youth sports events for a period of 12 months from the date
of the incident and shall be subject to such discipline as provided
for by the applicable sports team's Code of Conduct.
E.Â
Any person banned for 12 months from youth sports events for a violation
of this Code of Conduct prior to being allowed to resume attendance
at any youth sports event shall be required to complete anger management
or equivalent counseling program consisting of no less than 12 hours
of instruction and shall provide proof of satisfactory completion
to the code of Conduct Committee. Any banning for less than 12 months
may include up to 12 hours of anger management.
Any parent, official, coach or spectator at any youth sporting
event shall be subject to the authority of all field officials including
umpires and referees and elected league officials of the youth sports
team or teams sponsoring the youth sports event or in the absence
of such persons at a youth sports team's practice or instructional
event to the authority of the ranking youth sports team coach on the
premises. Such authority shall include the authorization to direct
any person or persons involved in any incident in violation of this
chapter or the applicable sports team's Code of Conduct to immediately
remove themselves from the premises.
A.Â
Upon a determination by a majority vote of the highest ranking official
and the governing board of a youth sports team that a parent, guest,
spectator, coach or official at any youth sports event sponsored by
such youth sports team has violated a provision of this chapter or
the Code of Conduct of the youth sports team, such official shall
forward to such violator a notice via regular and certified mail indicating
the date and location and nature of the violation and the period of
banning or other action to be taken in response to such violation.
B.Â
Any person receiving such a notice who wishes to contest same shall
appeal to the Woodbury Heights Code of Conduct Committee within seven
calendar days of the mailing of said notice by forwarding a copy of
said notice with a written request for appeal specifically setting
forth the basis of such person's contest of the notice of violation
via personal delivery or certified mail to the Chairperson of the
Code of Conduct Committee at 500 Elm Avenue, Woodbury Heights, New
Jersey.
C.Â
Upon receipt of such an appeal, the Code of Conduct Committee shall
convene within 10 days and provide an opportunity for said person
and any interested person to appear and be heard with respect to the
occurrence of any violation and the action taken by the youth sports
team.
D.Â
The Code of Conduct Committee shall be authorized to hear testimony
under oath, review affidavit and such other and further information
or documentation relevant to the violation and upon a majority vote
of the members of the Committee present at such hearing, may sustain,
overturn, or modify the youth sports team's notice of violation
and the period of banning or other action taken in response to such
violation consistent with this chapter or the youth sports team bylaws
or Code of Conduct.
E.Â
All notices of violation and bannings shall remain in effect until
overturned or modified by the Code of Conduct Committee.
F.Â
In the event any notice of violation is not appealed within 10 days
of such notice, said notice of violation and the action taken by the
youth sports team official including banning from youth sports events
shall become final.
[Adopted 1-16-02 by Ord. No. 4-2002]
Any sports organization organized pursuant to a nonprofit
or similar charter which is affiliated with or receives economic or
other support from the Borough of Woodbury Heights or regularly utilizes
any facilities or premises owned, operated, or maintained by the Borough
of Woodbury Heights, which sports organization participates in sporting
competitions involving minors.
A.Â
The Code of Conduct Committee shall be comprised of the president
of each youth sports team, commissioners of such sports team and the
vice president or other next highest ranking officer to the president
of such sports team each of whom is duly elected or appointed pursuant
to the bylaws or rules and regulations governing each such respective
sports team. The term vice president as used throughout this Article
shall include such officer designated by title or the next highest
ranking officer after the president in accordance with the bylaws
or rules and regulations governing each respective youth sports team.
B.Â
Each youth sports team shall annually advise the Borough Clerk of
the name, address and telephone number of its duly elected president,
and commissioners and vice president who shall serve on the Code of
Conduct Committee commensurate with his/her term of office with the
youth sports team.
C.Â
Each youth sports team shall notify the Borough Clerk in writing
promptly upon any change of the identity of the youth sports team's
president, commissioners or vice president.
D.Â
Any Code of Conduct Committee member serving on the Code of Conduct
Committee may designate an active member of such youth sports team
to appear and act as his/her designee with full voting powers at any
meeting of the Code of Conduct Committee.
In the event the same person is the president, vice president
or commissioner of more than one youth sports team, said person shall
serve on the Code of Conduct Committee as a representative of only
one youth sports team and shall designate an active member of such
other youth sports teams to appear and act at a Code of Conduct Committee
meeting with full voting powers.
The Code of Conduct Committee shall be charged with enforcing the provisions of the Ordinance Establishing a Youth Sports Code of Conduct found in Article I of this chapter.
The Code of Conduct Committee shall meet in January of each year to elect a Chairman, Secretary and such other officers as the Code of Conduct Committee shall deem appropriate, and may meet as often as is necessary to conduct its business and for the purposes of enforcing the provisions of the Ordinance Establishing a Youth Sports Code of Conduct found in Article I of this chapter.
The Code of Conduct Committee may establish rules and procedures as it deems appropriate for the conduct of its business and in default thereof shall operate pursuant to Roberts Rules of Order to the extent they are not in conflict with the within Article or the Ordinance Establishing a Youth Sports Code of Conduct found in Article I of this chapter.
