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Are you interested in being a PBBA Judge? 

ALL 2011 PBBA Judges must attend a PBBA judging clinic before applying for a PBBA judges card. The Clinic is a Pass or Fail clinic that lasts about 7 hours.  Attending the clinic does not guarantee your PBBA judges application will be approved.  You MUST pass the clinic.

To sign up for a PBBA Judging Clinic contact Mike Porter at mike@pbbanow or call him at 864-313-9024.

Next PBBA Judges Clinic is be scheduled

Please contact Andy Lott at 256-892-6050 or at lottandy14@yahoo.com regarding the requirements to be a PBBA judge.

Designation as a P.B.B.A.-approved judge is a privilege, not a right, bestowed by the Judges Committee according to procedures formulated by it, to individuals whose bull expertise and personal character merit the honor.  A judge shall judge a P.B.B.A.-approved event in accordance with all rules, regulations, directives and guidelines issued by P.B.B.A.  A judge shall honestly, fairly and impartially judge each bull exhibited to him or her, strictly on the bull’s performance as the rules of the particular event dictate.  An individual’s conduct as a member, exhibitor and judge must be exemplary; is subject to continual Judges Committee review, with an automatic review after (5) five years of becoming a P.B.B.A. judge; and such designation is revocable by the Judges Committee with or without notice and formal hearing, subject only to ultimate review by the Executive Committee, with or without notice and formal hearing.

 Judges must:   

  1. hold current individual P.B.B.A. membership.
  1. After accepting a judging commitment, endeavor, with all reasonable effort, to judge the event, and timely communicate to event management any inability to do so, to allow event management maximum time to seek a suitable replacement.
  1. during an approved event, be present to meet his/her responsibilities under P.B.B.A. rules and shall be available to assist event management in meeting its responsibilities of rule compliance.
  1. at all times, act in a professional manner.
  1. adhere to the Judge’s Code of Ethics
  1. be responsible for tallying the correct number of entries actually exhibited in each class and recording the correct figure on the form supplied by P.B.B.A.

 

7.   approve bull horn tips.

  1. approve bull physical conditions.

 

Judges may:

  1. order any person or bull from the competition for poor conduct of either and may disqualify any contestant for excessive abuse of the bull.
  2. at his or her discretion, refuse entry into the arena or remove an entry from a class for improper attire and/or equipment.
  3. eliminate any bull/exhibitor as an entry which he/she feels is in violation of the intent of P.B.B.A.’s Prohibited Conduct rules, or which he/she does not feel has legitimately attempted to exhibit the bull to the best of the bull’s ability.

 

Judges may not:

 

1.      have a conflict of interest between P.B.B.A.’s objective and their own personal business of pecuniary interests.  Each judge should refrain from using his or her official status to further one’s own personal or financial purpose.  When such conflict of interest arises, the judge is expected to either withdraw the personal objective from the transaction in question or resign from P.B.B.A.’s approved judges list, so he or she may pursue the personal objective.   Breach of this ethical rule shall be subject to review according to P.B.B.A. rules. 

 

2.      judge a bull belonging to, or being exhibited by any member of his/her immediate family (spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, sister, brother).  If a judge cannot exercise an objective opinion, free from possible prejudice, bias, or outside influence, because of a connection with an owner, exhibitor or anyone else connected with the bull, or, for that matter, if such connection would appear to others of possible bias, whether or not the judge feels he or she would be affected, a judge must disqualify himself or herself.

 

3.      re-judge a class once it has been judged, and once the judge has marked his/her card and places for awards made, there shall be no changing of the judge’s record.

 

4.      After the judge has accepted a judging assignment, exhibitors shall not contact, nor attempt to contact the judge pertaining to judging of any bulls at the event.  Further, exhibitors shall not approach judges for any reason prior to the completion of judging unless the arena director      is present.

 

5.      No exhibitor will visit or socialize with a judge the day prior to or day of the event.

 

6.      A P.B.B.A.-approved judge shall be treated with courtesy, cooperation and respect.  No person, exhibitor, owner, or otherwise, shall direct abuse of threatening conduct toward them, either in the furtherance of their judging duties, or as a result thereof, whether or not the conduct occurs during an approved event, or on event grounds.