2020 Summer Ball Participant Waiver
COVID-19: City of Grant Summer Ball Program Participants Agreement
(Please print clearly or type and fill in all blanks and sign below.)
Participant Name (Player, Coach, Official, or Other Participant):_________________________
Address: _________________________________________
Municipality: ___________________________ State: __________ Zip:_________________
Telephone #:____________________________
Age of Participant ______
If Participant is 18 years of age or older, only Participant must sign. If Participant is 17 years Old or Younger, Parent or Legal Guardian must sign.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ASSUMPTION OF RISK
The COVID-19 coronavirus has been declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization, is extremely contagious and is believed to spread mainly from person-to-person contact. By signing this, you ACKNOWLEDGE AND ASSUME the risk and dangers OF ILLNESS, DISEASE, MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS, INJURY OR DEATH, caused by or related to COVID-19, by voluntarily entering the property and/or public facilities of any Municipality and participating in or viewing adult and/or youth games, practices, or other group recreational activities, or by authorizing the participation of a minor in or the presence of a minor at such games, practices, or other group recreational activities. No one guarantees that you or your child(ren) will not become infected with COVID-19. The person signing below voluntarily assumes this risk because s/he chooses or elects to do so.
COVID-19 RELEASE AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE
In consideration of the above-listed player, coach, or official (“Participant”) being allowed to participate in adult and/or youth team sports or other group recreational activities on municipal property and/or public facilities, the Participant or the parent(s) or legal guardian (if Participant is a Minor), on his or her own behalf and on behalf of any Minor Participant, agree as follows:
- RELEASE, WAIVE, DISCHARGE AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE every city or village (hereinafter, Municipality) on whose property and/or public facilities Participant participates in any adult and/or youth games, practices, or other group recreational activities, together with each such Municipality’s mayor and council, village board of trustees, manager/administrator, clerk, agents and employees, and all others who participate with Participant in such activities (all of whom are collectively referred to herein as “Releasees”) from any and all liability to the Participant (or Participant’s personal representatives, assigns, heirs, parents, legal guardians, siblings, children or dependents) on account of injury, illness, disease, quarantine or death from the COVID-19 coronavirus and any complication or related disease or condition, occurring as a result of entering the property of any such Municipality, participating in or viewing any such game, practice, or other group recreational activity, or other use of public facilities on the property of any such Municipality, whether such injury, sickness, disease, condition, or death is caused by the negligence or other wrongful conduct of one or more of the Releasees or any other participants, spectators or other individuals present at the game, practice, or other group recreational activity, or whether liability for such injury, sickness, disease, condition, or death is assigned to one or more of the Releasees as a matter of strict liability or any other legal doctrine.
- AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND SAVE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE RELEASEES and each of them from any liability, damage or loss (including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and other defense costs) one or more of them may suffer or incur arising out of or related to the Participant’s or any of the undersigned’s entry onto the property and/or public facilities of any such Municipality in connection with any game, practice, or other group recreational activity, whether such claim is based on one or more of the Releasees' negligence, breach of contract or warranty, strict liability or other legal theory. The undersigned COVENANTS not to sue any Releasee related to injury, disease, loss, quarantine, or illness related to COVID-19.
- THE PERSON SIGNING BELOW AGREE(S) to comply with all federal, state and local laws and regulations, all directed health measures and guidelines, and all security policies or procedures established by any such Municipality relating to COVID-19 or other safety or hygiene precautions, understanding that the Municipality may elect to deny entrance to the property (including any facilities present thereon) and the Participant may not be allowed to participate or continue to participate in the game, practice, or other group recreational activity at the election of the Municipality at any time. The undersigned agree(s) that in the event any portion of this document is held to be invalid, the balance shall, notwithstanding, continue in full legal force and effect to the greatest extent possible under applicable law. The parents or guardian of the Participant agree that by signing below they are in addition to binding themselves and binding any minor Participant on whose behalf they have signed, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law to this Agreement in full.
I AM THE AGE OF MAJORITY, AM COMPETENT AND HAVE FULL AUTHORITY TO SIGN THIS, HAVE READ THE ABOVE AND UNDERSTAND ITS TERMS. I SIGN KNOWING ITS EFFECTS.
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Signature of Participant Print Clearly or Type Name of Participant
(If 18 Years Old or Older)
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Signature of Parent Print Clearly or Type Name of Parent
(If Participant is 17 Years Old or Younger)
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Signature of Parent Print Clearly or Type Name of Parent
(If Participant is 17 Years Old or Younger)
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Signature of Legal Guardian (If Applicable) Print Clearly or Type Name of Legal Guardian