OVAC BY-LAWS and REGULATIONS - Ohio Valley Athletic ...

9.2.5 The Executive Board shall meet ten (10) times a year (the fourth Wednesday of
each month). It will not meet in December and July.
9.2.6 When a vacancy occurs for an Executive Board member, the Executive Board
shall review the candidates from the schools in that state and select one to serve.
9.2.7 The Executive Board member should be an administrator or past administrator of
the member school in the state he/she represents.
9.2.8 Should an Executive Board member miss 30% of the Board meetings within a
given year, he/she shall be replaced by the remaining members. Extenuating circumstances
shall be taken into consideration.
3 - Class Representatives
9.3.1 The Executive Board shall have the authority to appoint class representatives, one
(1) from each classification.
9.3.2 The class representative should be an athletic director or assistant athletic director
of the member school in the class he/she represents.
9.3.3 When a vacancy occurs for a class representative, the Executive Board shall review
the candidates from the schools in that class and select one to serve.
4 - Commissioners
9.4.1 The Executive Board shall have the authority to appoint commissioners as it deems
necessary.
9.4.2 There shall be a Commissioner appointed for football and basketball to assign
game officials for Conference contests, as well as a Commissioner for baseball, softball, volleyball
and wrestling. This Commissioner does not have to be a bona fide member of the faculty
of any member school. The Commissioner is directly responsible to the Executive Board in all
matters related to the Conference.
9.4.3 All member schools must use Conference-assigned officials in regular season Conference
football and boys’/girls’ basketball contests. This includes all invitational tournaments,
holiday tournaments or events sponsored by any promoter. Events held outside the geographical
area of the Conference are excluded from this requirement. However, ALL games contested
will count in the standings. [10.23.13]
Failure to do so will result in a $1,000 fine which must be paid prior to the start of the
next sporting season. Should the fine not be paid by this time, the school would be ineligible to
receive any Conference championships or compete in any all-star games until the fine is paid.
Should this violation occur again (including within that season after they have been notified),
that school would immediately be expelled from the Conference, with no appeal or opportunity
to re-enter for a period of five (5) years from the date of infraction. [04.18.06]