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Section 9. Substance Abuse
The use of all tobacco products by any coach, player, official or other individual involved in the conducting of any NJCAA sanctioned or
sponsored regular season or postseason play is prohibited within the confines of the playing area. Any individual not in compliance shall
be disqualified from further participation in that contest.
Section 10. Open Wound Policy
Under circumstances when constant or profuse bleeding occurs, the participant shall be immediately removed from that contest by the
official and cannot return until the bleeding has been stopped.
A. Health care attendants, known to be infected with the HIV virus, cannot administer to bleeding athletes.
B. Anytime an athlete bleeds during a game, the game officials shall immediately stop the game and a substitute player must enter the
game for the bleeding athlete.
C. A bleeding athlete cannot compete further until the bleeding has been stopped.
D. The home game administration shall be responsible to notify all game officials of their responsibilities in enforcing this policy.
Section 11. Championship Lodging
Should the Championship Host/NJCAA National Office choose to assign lodging for this event, all participating colleges must honor that
assignment or pay for those rooms.
Section 12. NJCAA Code of Conduct
All coaches, athletes and support personnel are expected to be familiar with and follow the NJCAA Code of Conduct. This code may be
found under Article XVI of the NJCAA bylaws.
Section 13. Dress Decorum
During the games, coaches will wear business casual attire and all other representatives of the college will wear logo shirts and casual
pants or college logo sweat suits.
At pre-game banquets, all college representatives will dress in casual business or better. At less formal events, logo shirts and casual
pants or college logo sweat suits may be appropriate.
Violators of dress decorum will be asked by either the Tournament Director or NJCAA Representative to alter dress to comply with the
stated dress decorum. If they don't comply, the incident will be referred to the Standards and Ethics Committee for possible sanctions.
Section 14. Championship Site Bids
Sport Committee Chairs must be present at the Championship Events Committee meeting when bid(s) for the national tournament site
is/are discussed.