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NCAA Division I Bylaw 13.12.2.3.3 (other noninstitutional privately owned camps/clinics -- sports other than basketball.). June 15, 2009. The NCAA Division I Legislative Council Subcommittee for Legislative Relief approved with conditions, a blanket waiver to permit NCAA Division I institutional athletics department personnel to serve in any capacity (e.g., counselor, guest lecturer, consultant) in a noninstitutional, privately owned camp or clinic that is not operated on the institution’s campus, within the state in which the institution is located or within a 50-mile radius of the institution’s campus. The subcommittee granted the blanket waiver request with the following conditions: (1) This is a one-time waiver request for the 2009 summer and future requests will be denied; (2) The waiver is for institutional athletics department personnel who committed (e.g., verbal agreement, written contract, etc.) prior to May 28, 2009, to serve in any capacity (e.g., counselor, guest lecturer, consultant) in a noninstitutional, privately owned camp or clinic that is not operated on the institution’s campus, within the state in which the institution is located or, if outside the state, within a 50-mile radius of campus; (3) The camps have advertised the coach’s or institutional athletics department personnel’s participation (e.g., coach’s name or name of coach’s institution is referenced in camp brochures or on camp’s online Web site, etc.); and (4) The camps must occur during one of the institution’s designated two 15-day periods for participating in camps and clinics. The subcommittee granted the request based on totality of the circumstances and coach well-being. Specifically, the subcommittee noted: (1) The demonstrated widespread misapplication of the legislation. Specifically, several Division I institutions have misapplied the football camp location restrictions as applicable only to their own institutional camps or clinics and have not extended application of this restriction to the employment of institutional athletics department personnel at noninstitutional, privately owned camps or clinics. Institutions have permitted coaches and athletics department personnel to commit to participate in noninstitutional, privately owned camps occurring outside the state of the institution and beyond a 50-miles radius of the institution’s campus; (2) The waiver only applies to those coaches or institutional athletics department personnel who committed (e.g., verbal agreement, written contract, etc.) to participate prior to the May 28, 2009, interpretation provided by NCAA staff to member conferences; (3) The institutional athletics department personnel or the camp will incur expenses related to previously booked travel and lodging if the waiver was denied; (4) The waiver only applies to those camps that have advertised the coach’s or institutional athletics department personnel’s participation; and (5) The camps are being conducted in accordance with all other restrictions applicable to institutional camps or clinics. To view this blanket waiver in its entirety, please access SLR Case No. 11937 on LSDBi.