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Code of Conduct


The Orleans Recreation Department values all of its participants and spectators. It is essential for parents, coaches, and officials to encourage youth athletes to embrace the values of good sportsmanship. Moreover, adults involved in youth sporting events should be models of good sportsmanship and should lead by example by demonstrating fairness, respect, and self-control.

I, therefore, pledge to be responsible for my words and actions while attending, coaching, officiating, or participating in youth sporting events. I shall conform my behavior to the following code of conduct:

  1. I will not engage in unsportsmanlike conduct with any coach, parent, player, participant, official, or any other attendee. 
  2. I will not encourage my child or any other person to engage in unsportsmanlike conduct with any coach, parent, player, participant, or any other attendee. 
  3. I will not engage in any behavior that would endanger the health, safety, or well-being of any coach, parent, player, participant, official, or any other attendee. 
  4. I will not encourage my child or any other person to engage in any behavior that would endanger the health, safety, or well-being of any coach, parent, player, participant, official, or any other attendee. 
  5. I will not use drugs or alcohol while at a youth sporting event and will not attend, coach, officiate, or participate in a youth sporting event while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. 
  6. I will not permit my child or encourage any other person to use drugs or alcohol while at a youth sporting event. 
  7. I will not engage in the use of profanity. 
  8. I will not encourage my child or any other person to engage in the use of profanity. 
  9. I will treat every coach, parent, player, participant, official, or any other attendee with respect regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, or ability.
  10. I will encourage my child or any other person to treat any coach, parent, player, participant, official, or any other attendee with respect regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, or ability.
  11. I will not engage in verbal or physical threats/abuse to any coach, parent, player, official, or any other attendee. 
  12. I will not encourage my child or any other person to engage in verbal or physical threats/abuse to any coach, parent, player, official, or any other attendee. 
  13. I will not initiate a verbal and/or physical conflict with any coach, parent, player, participant, official, or any other attendee. 
  14. I will not encourage my child or any other person to initiate a verbal and/or physical conflict with any coach, parent, player, participant, official, or any other attendee.

I hereby agree that if I fail to conform my conduct to the foregoing while attending, coaching, officiating, or participating in a youth sporting event, I will be subject to disciplinary action, including but not limited to the following in any order or combination: 

  1. Verbal warning issued by a league or recreational official. 
  2. Immediate ejection from a youth sporting event issued by a league or recreation official who is authorized to issue such an ejection. 
  3. Suspension from multiple youth sporting events issued by the Recreation Director or Supervisor. 
  4. Season suspension or multiple season suspensions issued by the Orleans Recreation Department.

Please Click the Link to Print the PDF Form.

https://orleansma.myrec.com/forms/5962_code_of_conduct_1.pdf