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PURPOSE
The goal of exchanging Traveling Banners should create good will and cooperation as well as successful dance attendance. These guidelines supersede all banner stealing practices of the past.
DEFINITIONS
CLUB MASTER BANNER
The Master Banner is a banner suitably designed to represent the name of the club. That banner should be displayed at workshops and scheduled club dances at all times.
TRAVELING BANNER
A special designed banner or mascot-type box or objects especially designated by the owner club to be its Traveling Banner and so labeled. It should have some resemblance of a replica of the owner club's Master Banner or have its name upon it in some manner.
SOUVENIR BANNERS
A replica of the club's Master Banner in a smaller, easily transportable form, to be given as a Traveling Banner substitute should the club not have a special designated Traveling Banner or in a situation where the owner club's Traveling Banner is in possession of another club and the visiting club has met the requirements to obtain a Traveling Banner.
RULES
1. Club Master Banners should never travel.
2. Club Master Banners may be displayed by its home club while its traveling banner is in possession of another club.
3. A minimum of 8 dancers or 50 percent of a club's membership, visiting from one club and displaying their badges and signing the club's guest book may take the Traveling banner. The same rules apply for retrieving a Traveling Banner. The 8 dancers or 50 percent membership must attend to the end of the dance.
4. Traveling Banners may be presented at any regular workshop or scheduled club dance. Class level dances will not be banner dances.
5. A retrieving club can only recover their own club banner from another club and will not be eligible to take that club's banner on the same occasion unless they have 16 dancers or 100 percent of membership in attendance.
6. A Traveling Banner shall be maintained in the same manner and condition in which it was presented.
7. A club having possession of another club's Traveling Banner must display them or it at their own scheduled dances.
8. If a club cannot muster enough squares at another club's dances within a six month's period from its banner presentation, then it may retrieve its banner after that period of time by two (2) visiting dancers.
9. Clubs are encouraged to let another club know they are coming with an eligible number of dancers for the purpose of being presented with their Traveling Banner.
10. In a case where more than one club becomes eligible to be presented a Traveling Banner at a club function, it shall be presented to the club traveling the greater distance, the others to be presented souvenir banners.
11. A club in possession of another club's Traveling Banner may not award this banner to a visiting club in lieu of their own banner.
