Constitution of the Official
Richmond Cheer Squad
This Constitution replaces any previous Constitution of the Official Richmond Cheer Squad and is effective from 7 February 2004.
Clause 1: The Name of the Cheer Squad is to be "Official Richmond Cheer Squad", (also referred to as O.R.C.S.).
Clause 2: The object of the Official Richmond Cheer Squad is to give full support to the Richmond Football Club, not the Richmond Football Club to support the O.R.C.S.
Clause 3: Membership to the O.R.C.S. is defined as follows:
Junior Member - 12 years and under at the time of joining.
Senior Member - 13 years and over at the time of joining.
Associate Member - persons who are 25 years and over when joining for the first time, persons who are members of other Cheer Squads and persons who have turned 25 years of age since their original membership of the O.R.C.S. has lapsed. An Associate member will become a full Senior Member of the Cheer Squad after 3 concesutive years as an Associate member.
Clause 4: Rules Appling to Associate Members:
Associate members as defined in Clause 3 cannot stand for election in any capacity of the O.R.C.S., cannot nominate or second a O.R.C.S. member for election to the O.R.C.S. Committee and cannot vote at any O.R.C.S election and Associate members are not entitled to Finals tickets from the O.R.C.S. allocation of such tickets and Associate members are not entitled to sit in seats reserved for O.R.C.S. members at A.F.L. games.
Clause 5: The rules relating to Associate members as in Clause 4 regarding eats in the O.R.C.S. area and participating in the O.R.C.S. Finals ticket allocation can be temporarily changed if and when conditions of the O.R.C.S. are such that seating and/or Finals tickets are available. This decision must be the decision of the Committee of the O.R.C.S. with the majority of Committee members being in favour of this change and such a change can only apply to the current year of application and must be reviewed from year to year, it does not automatically apply from year to year.
Clause 6: All O.R.C.S. members must be financial by the 16th game of the home and away series.
Committee of O.R.C.S. present and as many financial members as choose to be present.
Clause 7: The O.R.C.S. is non-political and non-sectarian.