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REGULATION NUMBER FIVE RESIDENCER.5.1. In all divisions and categories above Minor hockey, the Residence Rule shall be open. However, players must reside within the jurisdictional boundaries of the NOHA. R.5.2. AAA Major and Minor Juvenile, Midget, Bantam, and Peewee in the NOHA adopt the Zone concept. Zone divisions will be the districts as outlined in the NOHA By-Law B.1.13. A player from within the Zone may request written permission from the signing officers of the Minor Team or Association holding his/her card, to try out for the AAA Club within the Zone. This permission must carry an automatic release for the player upon being signed by the AAA club. This same provision will apply for a player wanting to tryout for a AAA club outside his/her zone. A player is only released to the team to whom they have signed a HC card. If a player signs a Minor Bantam AAA card then they must return to their Home community after their Minor Bantam year. If the player signs a Major Bantam HC card as a Minor Bantam player then they are eligible to stay for the 2 years. R.5.3. No Minor player shall be registered as a member of, or compete for, a team in any NOHA match who has not been a bona fide resident of the city, town, municipality, police village, rural area or zone within each of these areas as established by the branch to which his/her team belongs since November 1st in any playing season. The OHF Residential Move Form must be attached to the player’s record in the HCR for approval. At the request of the President of the NOHA, the signing officers of an Association, Club or single team entry, shall submit to the office of Executive Director of the NOHA, verifiable proof, in writing, of the residency of any player registered in the current season. In the case of disputed residency the ruling of the President shall be final. Any player moving residency within their own association may submit a completed Residential Move form only. No additional documentation is required (i.e. driver’s license, bill etc.). R.5.4 A player must compete with the club nearest to his/her place of residence having a team entered in a series for which he/she is qualified to play - Junior, Juvenile, Midget, Bantam, Peewee, Atom and Novice. Players may, at their discretion, play for the club nearest to their place of residence having a team entered in the series for which they are, by age, qualified to play in. R.5.5. Where a team has been registering players from a neighbouring municipality and the acceptance of a new entry from a third municipality prevents such players from qualifying by residence, the Board of Directors shall be empowered to declare which players qualify under the residence rule (minor hockey only). R.5.6. A player resident in a community which is not represented by a club having a team entered in a division in which he/she is eligible to play, may, if there is more than one team or more than one community with teams for which he/she is eligible, near his/her residence, choose which team he/she wishes to join. However, this choice is only available if the difference in distance from his/her residence, over a well maintained highway to the two or more communities does not exceed five (5) miles (eight kilometres). Such players shall continue to belong to the club chosen until properly released. R.5.7. The distance in Item R.5.6. shall be determined by the mileage between the corporate limits of two communities over a road which is at all times maintained for motor traffic. R.5.8. However, if, after registering with such a team as outlined in Item R.5.6., a team is entered from the community in which he/she is a resident, such a player shall be subject to claim, not later than November 15th in the current season, providing the claiming club was entered by October 1st. R.5.9. Regulation removed May, 2005. R.5.10
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