ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
The undersigned, being above the age of eighteen (18) years, does hereby make and acknowledge these Articles of
Incorporation for the purpose of forming a nonprofit corporation under and by virtue of the laws of the State of North
Carolina.
ARTICLE ONE
Name. The name of the association shall be NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, INC.
ARTICLE TWO
Duration. The period of duration of the corporation shall be perpetual.
ARTICLE THREE
Purposes. Whereas athletic activities play a recognized and valuable role in high school education in North Car
olina, and whereas the coordination of these activities among the several high schools has been found to be of special
benefit to high school education in North Carolina, the purposes for which this corporation are formed are educational
in nature, and, though limited by the scope and meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue code of 1954, the
purposes include:
(a)
To stimulate, control and direct high school athletics among its members or between its members and
other teams in North Carolina.
(b)
To maintain a high standard for high school games, contests, athletics and all other sports activities by
and among its members in North Carolina.
(c)
To give and grant to its members and to others, so far as empowered by law, the privilege to hold con
tests, competitions, and exhibitions under its auspices or otherwise, in accordance with its prescribed
rules and regulations, and subject to conditions as it may lawfully impose.
(d)
To enact and establish rules and regulations governing such contests, competitions, exhibitions and ath
letic participations, and to determine and define awards and prizes for such contests, and to determine
and define breaches and infractions of its rules and regulations.
(e)
To educate and train members and persons regarding all adopted rules and regulations governing ath
letic participation and competition by and among its members and regarding rules for particular sports
and games.
(f)
To exercise disciplinary authority so far as is lawful over all members and representatives of members
engaged in contests, competitions, exhibitions and athletic activities, to the end that games, contests,
sports and athletics of every kind may be subject to clean, sportsmanlike, dignified competition.
(g)
To promote the physical and moral well-being of all athletes representing its members.
(h)
To educate public opinion regarding high school athletics by and among its members.
(i)
By all lawful means to elevate, improve and promote games, contests, physical exercises, athletics, exhi
bitions and all sports by and among its members.
(j)
To acquire, hold title to, sell, exchange, lease, alien, build structures upon or otherwise to deal in real
property for the purpose of maintaining premises where the hereinabove stated purposes can be pur
sued.
(k)
To apply for, solicit, receive, hold and disburse grants, funds and other property to be used in further
ance of the purposes stated herein.
ARTICLE FOUR
Membership. Any North Carolina public or non-boarding parochial high school is eligible for membership pro
vided it is accredited by the State Department of Public Instruction, and provided that the high school adopts and main
tains the following code for participation in high school athletics:
“Competitive athletics cannot be justified as a part of the school program unless it contributes to a whole
some rounding out of the personality of the participants and the spectators. We shall therefore insist on
hard but clean play resulting in honest victory without conceit or honest defeat without bitterness.
Realizing that eligibility rules are made to help relationships between schools, we agree to live up to the
spirit as well as the letter of the regulations set by the association.
We shall see that the control of the policies and operations of high school athletics remains with the legally
constituted governing body and is delegated by this body to the school officials. If desirable, the superin
tendent can assign responsibility to the principal, and the principal to the athletic coach, who will be a
full-fledged faculty member.
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