The Constitution of the organization shall include the full name of the club its mailing address and include the mission of the group. For instance, if your group will hold events and classes your object can be; The purpose of the club shall be to conduct classes for the training of dogs and their handlers and hold dog obedience events.
Section 1
The name of the club shall be: The Bellmore Dog Obedience and Tracking Club
Section 2
Address: PO Box 0000 Bellmore NY 11710
Section 3
The purpose of the Bellmore Dog Obedience and Tracking Club is to enhance the enjoyment of dog ownership by engaging in shared human-canine activities. This will be achieved through Obedience and Tracking Trials which allow dogs to demonstrate their natural skill as well as their ability to work as part of an animal-human team. In these events, dogs and handlers compete against a standard of perfection, rather than against each other.
Section 4
The Bellmore Dog Obedience and Tracking Club is open to all breeds of dogs and all DRA Classes of dogs
Section 5
The Bellmore Dog Obedience and Tracking Club here by adopts the following Dog Registry of America, Inc. (here after referred to as the DRA) national rules and regulations as part of its constitution:
The Bellmore Dog Obedience and Tracking Club is an independent organization that will operate under the lawful regulations of the state and jurisdiction they are in, No club or club member shall represent in any way that they are officials of, or part of the governing board, or official representatives, or are acting on the behalf or set policies of the DRA. This club will hold harmless the DRA, its officers and representatives from any action arising out of the clubs operation, events functions and financial activities. All purchases, payments, liabilities are the sole responsibility of The Bellmore Dog Obedience and Tracking Club. The DRA has no interest or responsibility whatsoever in the financial structure or undertakings of this club. All dogs of club members and dogs entered in club events must be registered with the DRA. Dogs earning points, titles, and awards at sanctioned club events will have said points, titles, and awards added to their DRA registration records on the official DRA Data base and will be accrued toward DRA titles. All events will be open to DRA registered dogs meeting the local clubs event criteria whether or not they are a member of the local club so long as they are in good standing with the local club and the DRA. Each Club wishing to hold events must write a plan and submit it to DRA for approval. The plan must address the date, time and type of event rules, points, submit names and of judges for various events, name and address of facility where event will be held, and names, addresses and telephone numbers of media where event will be publicized.
Any sanctioned club knowingly permitting, sanctioning, selling, leasing, vending, donating any dog for the purpose of or being involved in any way directly or indirectly with the fighting of any dogs as an event, pastime, hobby vocation or the use of any animal in the training of a dog for fighting. Will immediately lose its sanctioned status and be subject to any additional penalties, fines and actions that the DRA sees fit to asses. In addition all members of the club participating in such actions will be expelled from the DRA and their dogs registration and all litter registrations will be permanently canceled and no fees will be returned. Such members will also be subject to any additional penalties, fines and actions that the DRA sees fit to asses.
In the event that the DRA finds it necessary to amend its rules, regulations or requirements for club sanctioning the local club will adopt such changes