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Our ability to utilize the ice at the DCC is a privilege. As a lessee of the building, all members of MYHL need to adhere to a policy to ensure we keep our organization in good-standing. Listed below are the conduct guidelines for persons associated with MYHL to follow when using the facility, either as participant or a spectator.  It is vital that everyone involved understands these rules and abides accordingly. Violations of these rules will cause you to be escorted from the building for that day.  For habitual offenders, we will have no choice but to disallow usage for a period of time, including and not limited for the remainder of the season if there are gross violations.  

1.       An adult or parent, coach, team manager etc, is required in the locker room or dressing areas at all times for supervision.  Youth participants should not be allowed to the lower level of the DCC without an official team representative present (coach or team manager). In the absence of a team representative, any youth participant is not allowed to move to the lower levels until 30 minutes prior to their session. All MYHL participants need to use the elevator to get to the lower levels.  

2.       No one is allowed downstairs except players, coaches, managers, league officials and parents assisting younger players dress.  Once the player is dressed, the parent should return upstairs, using the elevator. This is to minimize unnecessary foot traffic especially for unsupervised youth as well as ensuring a minimum amount of privacy for our players while changing in and out of gear.  

3.       Female participants need to use the separate changing rooms for privacy. Team managers and coaches should aid in determining the location where female team participants should dress.  

4.       An adult representative from each team is required to be the last person from the locker room and ensure that it is clean and undamaged. ALL trash, including tape balls, must be deposited into a waste receptacle. Any equipment, gear, sticks, accessories, clothing, etc, should be either taken to the DCC’s Office in the rear of the Zamboni entrance as “Lost and Found”, given to any number of DCC event staff for the same purpose, or given to the team manager or coach to hold until next session (assuming the missing gear is owned by a member of that team). Any damage should be communicated to the DCC Event Staff, whether or not caused by MYHL, but especially if the damage is not there responsibility of the MYHL.  

5.             All spectators, parents, families, and other MYHL players not currently on the ice playing, are required to sit in the permanent seats on the West Side of the arena from goal line to goal line and the associated lobby area connected to those sections.  NO one is allowed in the upper seating levels. Restrooms in the grand hall will be the only ones available upstairs.   

We need to stress to all younger children that unsupervised activity and roaming in the areas of building not in this section is prohibited. In addition, any unruly behavior in the seating area is also prohibited.  

“Stick and ball” hockey or any activity using a ball of any kind is not allowed in the building anywhere. We need to avoid any potential damage and other cosmetically damaging activity within the building.  

In addition, all trash and waste generated by spectators Must be removed and placed in trash receptacles before you leave the building. Outside food and drink should be discouraged but if required, reserved for the concourse area or outside the building.  We simply need to avoid situations that can cause a mess requiring DCC Event Staff to clean. We can and will be charged higher ice fees if we cannot keep our areas clean.  

6.       Team managers should recruit at least two parents for each session to patrol the concourse and lobby area, one stationed on each end of the area that we are authorized to sit, to ensure any MYHL organizational member is not causing mischief or interfering with any other activities that might be occurring in the building. If there are two teams on the ice, each team is responsible for at least one parent to work with the other team parent to secure the lobby. 

7.       No one is allowed to sit in the bottom section of the seating areas, roughly 7 rows up from the bench area. The only exception is to deliver something to the player’s bench.  This includes refraining from using bleacher stairs to get to or from the locker room area.  Use the outside stairs or elevator instead. 

8.       No skateboards or any other roller skate shoes are allowed in the facility.  Anyone using these devices will be escorted out of the building. 

9.       No alcohol is allowed in the building. No smoking in the building. 

10.    Use of the Riverkings/Hernando Youth Sports ice skates is prohibited without express consent from the Divisional Director or MYHL Board Member. 

11.    Use of the MYHL-owned Skate Sharpener is limited to trained members and must only be used in the lower level hallway. See your Divisional Director for more information.  

12.    Vending usage should be limited to the machines on the main floor lobby.  

13.    Clock and scoreboard operators should use the walkway through the seating area rather than walk across the ice for safety reasons. Children of operators are not allowed in the scorer’s area unless specifically authorized by the Divisional Director or MYHL Board representative. Use of the microphone is limited to specific game announcements only.  

14.    The MYHL Code of Conduct policy extends outside the DCC building into the external walkways and parking lot area. Any altercations, activity, or behavior conducted on the DCC grounds that violate this policy will be subject to penalty or suspension from the league as noted.  

15.    For any event that requires immediate medical attention, ie, ambulance, find the nearest DCC Event Staff member and inform them immediately.   Thank you for understanding and ensuring our good standing the DCC is upheld.

Kerry Frankland, MYHL President