1. All district medals must be purchased by the District Chairperson from the Vice President of the Association and their distribution shall be determined by the District.
   
2. The State Association shall make available Division I, Division II and Festival Participation medals at each State Contest/Festival site. These medals may be purchased from the Contest Host on the day of the contest.
   
3. The State Association shall present a plaque, free of charge, to each organization receiving a First Division or Second Division rating at State Contest or for Participation at State Festival. Organizations receiving a Third Division ratings will receive an appropriate certificate.
   
4. Groups receiving the Honor Status at the State Festival shall receive an additional plaque for this honor.
   
5. An individual purchase of medals for replacement purposes only may be made from the Vice President’s office at a cost of $1.50 per medal.
   
6. All State sites shall conduct their contests/festivals in a uniform manner and present only the awards designated by the Association.

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CONTEST FEES

1. Members of competing organizations, soloists and ensembles, including home schooled students, must be bona fide students of the organization they represent and shall be certified as such by their principal or superintendent. HOWEVER, DIRECTORS SHALL HAVE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY TO ACCEPT, REJECT, OR CANCEL ENTRIES INTO SOLO AND ENSEMBLE CONTEST: ALL STUDENTS MUST BE A MEMBER OF BAND, ORCHESTRA, CHORUS, SWING/SHOW CHOIR OR JAZZ BAND IN THEIR MEMBER SCHOOL, IF SUCH ORGANIZATIONS EXIST, IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE.
   
2. Band, Orchestra, and Choral students living in communities where district supported school instrumental and/or choral programs do not exist will be allowed to perform as members of neighboring school district music programs in all sanctioned contests.
   
3. Students who graduate in mid-year prior to the State Contest/Festival may compete in the Association contest/festival.
   
4. To become eligible for the State Contest/Festival, all bands, orchestras, jazz bands, swing/show choirs, and choruses must receive a First Division rating at the District Contest.
   
5. A member school may enter more than one band, orchestra, jazz band, swing/show choir or chorus in the contest competition upon compliance with Association rules. Each organization will be considered as a separate entry and subject to all rules and provisions governing such an entry.
   
6. A student may participate in only one concert band, one orchestra and one jazz band. Exception: An instrumental student may participate in two concert bands, two orchestras or two jazz bands provided the student performs on two different instruments.
   
7. A student may participate in two choruses provided the choruses are of different types (i.e.: treble, boys, mixed) and one swing/show choir.
   
8. Directors shall forward a list of those students participating in two groups indicating instruments played and/or types of choirs. At the District level, the list shall go to the District Chairpersons. At the State level, the list shall go to the Secretary-Treasurer.
   
9. An organization may elect to perform "For Comment Only" at a District Contest, in which case Eligibility items 6, 7 and 8 above do not apply.

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District Chairpersons shall provide entry information and procedures to all participating members. District chairpersons shall not accept entries completed improperly or on incorrect forms.

Each school must have an adult chaperone in its home room (s) at all times unless the room is locked. The matter of discipline must be strict due to the large number of students attending contest/festival centers. One week prior to the Association contests/festivals, each member school shall submit to the contest/festival host a list of names of the adults who will serve as homeroom chaperones for their own school.

1. Any damage to property must be paid for either by the student/s committing the damage or by the school that the particular student/s represents. Students committing property damage or offering behavior problems will be reported to the host chairperson who will report the student’s name to the music director and to the President of the Association in writing. The particular student/s will be excluded from any future activities of the Illinois Grade School Music Association, Northern Division, for the remainder of the school year. The Executive Board will review the student/s eligibility for future participation in Association activity at the next Executive Board Meeting.
   
2. In the case of repeated disciplinary problems from a particular school, that school may be excluded from Association affairs for one school year.

For any violation of the rules and regulations, the adjudicator and/or designated contest/festival official shall lower the rating of an individual or group by one step. Violations of the contest or festival rules of this Association, other than those listed, shall be presented to the President, whose duty it shall be to present the same to the members of the Executive Board for action.

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