Rules & Regulations U.S. Beauties National Pageant

Citizen:

Must be a United States Citizen. Natural born female.

Competition Age:

Miss 18 years & over

Mrs. 20 years & over

You must be 18 years of age to compete in our pageant system. If you are not 18 years of age you will have to wait to compete. No one under 18 years old will be accepted even with a parents signature.

Right to Refuse:

We have the right to refuse a contestant entry into our pageant system.

Miss:

A woman who is a single mother is allowed to compete in the U.S. Beauties National Pageant.

Entry Fee:

There will be a contestant entry fee which all contestants must pay & is their responsibility. This entry fee can be sponsored by companies or businesses. The entry fee can be paid several ways...at one time, on a payment plan or by selling sponsor ad's. If you don't submit an entry fee as requested you will lose your title & no refunds will be issued. Entry fee cannot be carried into the next year under no circumstances without approval from the U.S. Beauties Pageant System. There are no refunds once the contestant payment plan has begun. Entry fee's are due within 3 months of accepting your "at large" title. "At large" meaning a contestant selected to compete at the national pageant should she not have a state pageant to compete in.

Please Note: the following will need to be adhered to as this will make for a smooth flow as our contestants represent their state & regional title and prepare for the national pageant competition. Once a contestant is awarded her at large title and pays her deposit we will request each contestant to periodically stay in touch with us via email. If we don't hear back from a contestant after emailing the contestant several times we will assume the contestant no longer wants to compete and we will open her title again. No entry fee deposit refunds will be issued.

Fee:

A $75.00 non-refundable commitment application fee will be applied towards the entry fee. This fee is due immediately when you accept your "at large" title.

Refer a Friend:

"Refer A Friend" & you will receive $25.00 off your entry fee and you can have as many referrals as you would like. You will receive $25.00 off your entry fee when your referral pays her entry fee in full. If you have already paid your entry fee you will receive a rebate check mailed to your home.

Financial Responsibility:

Contestants are taking on the financial responsibility by competing in our pageant. All rules MUST be observed.

Crowns & Banners:

U.S. Beauties Crowns & Banners will be mailed to each contestant after their entry fee is paid. Once you receive your hometown, city, state / regional crown & banner you will be asked to submit a crown & banner picture. A professional picture is not necessary. You can take your picture at home with no back ground clutter. Please email picture if you can.

Refunds:

We will absolutely not refund entry fee's, trip fee's or purchases under any circumstances & entry fee's are not transferable unless approved by the U.S. Beauties National Pageant System.

PayPal:

PayPal is accepted. PayPal account is DenDiBud@aol.com

Hotel:

Contestants competing will stay at host hotel & will be under the supervision of pageant staff. Contestants will not visit the rooms of staff. Leaving the building at any time during the competition will not be permitted (Unless it is a planned event through the pageant). U.S. Beauties Pageant is not responsible for the pageant hotel & services not provided. Contestants will pay for their 3 night pageant hotel stay. Special hotel rates will apply.

Travel:

Contestants are responsible for their own transportation to the pageant.

Titles:

We will assign hometown, state, city, county & regional titles.

Non Mandatory Ad Placement:

If you would like to place an ad in the program book the following prices are as follows...$100.00 full page, $75.00 half page, $50.00 quarter page & $25.00 business size card ad. Most contestants prefer best wishes ads.

Misrepresentation:

U.S. Beauties Pageant System will not allow employees, contestants or winners to misrepresent their title or position for the purpose of receiving personal monetary gratuities & or gifts. If misrepresentation is found to be true the employee, contestants or winners involved will be immediately terminated & the winners crown & banner will go to the 1st runner-up.

Tickets:

Tickets are $15.00 a piece for Sunday's National Pageant Competition Finals. There will be no preliminary competition.

Representing:

When our pageant representatives make an appearance in the U.S. Beauties crown & banner your picture cannot be mailed or emailed to another pageant system, newspaper, printed on flyers, literature or business cards, cooperate company or business unless you get written permission from U.S. Beauties Pageant System.

Other Pageant Titles:

We do allow our contestants & queens to compete in other pageant systems, but they must first be approved by the pageant staff.

Appearances:

All personal appearances that you are asked to attend while representing the U.S. Beauties Pageant System MUST be approved by U.S. Beauties Pageant. The U.S. Beauties National Pageant will help each contestant schedule personal appearances within their town & community. You will be asked to sign a personal appearance form before you start to attend personal appearances while wearing the U.S. Beauties Crown & Banner. When you are at an appearance you can only be representing one title at a time. (No Crown Swapping for Pictures etc..)

Conduct:

U.S. Beauties Pageant Representatives will conduct herself in a professional courteous manner while representing her title.

Responsibility:

U.S. Beauties Pageant & Staff will not be responsible for sponsors that will not fulfill their promise to give their gifts to our winners & contestants.

Paperwork:

All required competition paperwork information must be submitted on the due dates requested by the director.

Changes:

Our pageant competitions is subject to change without notice.

Soliciting:

We will take firm action against anyone whom may solicit our contestants for another pageant system or any reason. Our contestants will inform us if they are trying to be recruited by another contestant or another pageant system. At our pageants we will NOT tolerate any soliciting or recruiting by our contestants, family member, friends or guest. Our contestants are to inform staff of any soliciting. The solicitor will be given a firm warning & if the solicitor continues to solicit they will be asked to leave. Emails may not be exchanged for the sole purpose of recruiting for another pageant system.

Respect:

Contestants will ONLY look solely to the U.S. Beauties Pageant & National Directors relating to all aspects of this competition.

Obligations:

Winners can have a modeling, commercial obligations or agencies but cannot use our name without the expressed written consent of U.S. Beauties & their directors.

Prizes:

If you forget to take your prizes home with you after your pageant you will forfeit them. They will not be sent to you unless you will pay for the mailing cost.

Scores:

Contestant scores will be given after the pageant is over. No scores will be mailed after the pageant competition is over. Each contestant will receive their scores only and not the scores of another contestant. Scores can be received after the pageant by kindly asking our auditor. The auditor will not answer any questions asked by a contestant. No one is to bother the auditor at the national pageant.

Tie Score:

If there is a tie in the Miss or Mrs. division...the judges interview score will break the tie or in other words the person with the highest interview score in the Miss and Mrs. divisions will win the national title.

Contract:

You will be required to sign a contract should you win our U. S. Beauties National Pageant Title and must be respected by the new national queen while she wears the U. S. Beauties National Pageant Crown & Banner.

Consideration:

Our U. S. Beauties Pageant National Queens are expected to give us dedication time & loyalty within their one year reign. Should you want to compete in other pageants or competitions you will need written permission from U.S. Beauties Pageant & their directors. We must hear from all representatives once a month by email or telephone and all contact information given to the U. S. Beauties National Pageant Organization must be current & updated. Winners are expected to give their time & attention to the U. S. Beauties Pageant title.

Publicity:

Applicants will allow the U.S. Beauties Pageant & U.S. Beauties Pageant use of their picture, voice, likeness, for publicity purpose on the Internet, literature, flyers & U.S. Beauties logo products. Contestants & winners will waive all compensation for purposes of publicity and promotion.

Conduct:

No swearing, gossiping or drinking will be allowed during the competition or at the pageant events. Good sportsmanship is expected at all times during and after the competition. Drugs of any kind will not be allowed around the pageant contestants or at the national pageant. Delegate will conduct herself in a courteous manner at all times during the pageant and while representing her U. S. Beauties Pageant title. If at the pageant a contestant become disruptive verbally, swearing, drinking or afterwards posting verbal negative messages on boards, they will not be allowed to compete in future U.S. Beauties Pageant competitions at the preliminary, state or national level.

Liability:

Representatives will not hold the U.S. Beauties Pageant System or staff responsible for injuries or illness while at the pageant competition. Any cost due to damage of property will be at your expense.

Proof of Residence:

As a representative I will provide proof of residency (current bill, driver's license, school record, state ID or birth certificate) I understand that if I do not provide the national office with this I will not be able to compete.

Dressing Room:

No one is allowed in the dressing rooms besides contestants & staff unless approved by the national directors or approved supervisors in charge at the national pageant.

Itinerary:

Everyone must arrive on time for rehearsals, planned pageant events and their pageant competition and follow the itinerary as planned. We will not wait for a contestant if she is late arriving to the rehearsals, events or pageant competition. (Even during he competition)

Character:

Contestant must be of good moral character and hasn't committed any act that would show unfavorable on the U.S. Beauties Pageant system or its representatives. Contestant has not appeared in any nude or provocative photos for any magazine or film company prior to her participation in the U.S. Beauties Pageant or during her reign as our U.S. Beauties Pageant winner.

Checks:

All bank checks presented will be validated and must clear before crowns & banners will be mailed. Crowns & Banners will be mailed 2 weeks after their check clears. Contestants who does NSF a check will be liable for a $45.00 NSF Fee.

Disqualification:

If a contestant is disqualified for any reason there will be no refunds. Once a contestant is disqualified for non payment she will have to pay her entry fee in full to reassume her title minus payments already made. If our winner or winners title is disqualified or relinquished the first runner-up will assume the title & all prizes. Prizes must be returned to the national office in good condition within one week.

Sponsor Abuse:

To avoid sponsor abuse all sponsor checks will be written out to U.S. Beauties Pageant or the State Director in charge. Directors will then apply money to contestant entry fee and mail back the balance to the contestant. Each contestant will be required to send a monthly updated sponsor sheet to all pageant directors. The monthly sponsor sheet will contain the names & locations of each sponsor. U.S. Beauties Pageant System will not be held liable for contestants collecting cash & checks from sponsors without notifying their director of this per monthly updated sponsor sheet.

Slander:

U.S. Beauties Pageant representatives will not slander other contestants, judges, staff or U.S. Beauties Pageant, this competition or those involved. Conduct forms will have to signed at the welcome party and if any slander remarks either written or orally are found to be true, legal charges may be imposed.

Defamation:

Of character concerning U.S. Beauties Pageant competitions, directors & staff will be immediate grounds for dismissal & forfeiture of any prizes won and legal charges may be imposed.

Attorney:

If an attorney needs to get involved for any matters concerning the * Miss *Mrs. U.S. Beauties Pageant Organization / System, Directors, Staff, Contestants, Judges, Hotel, Restaurant & Persons Involved with the *Miss *Mrs. U.S. Beauties Pageant Organization / System all fee's to our attorney and the party involved claiming the lawsuit will be the responsibility of the party involved in the dispute.

Judges:

The competition judges decision is final.

Photos:

Contestants & winners will present photos to the U.S. Beauties Pageant for the pageant scrapbook.

Contract:

Contestants are required to sign a contract the day that they become our winner and will expire when they crown a new winner the following year. Winners will make a minimum of 10 appearances as she reigns for one year. Appearances may include parades, radio, interviews & personal appearance events. Winners will email or mail pictures of each personal appearance that they will attend for the pageant personal appearance page, websites & literature. The U.S. Beauties National Director will help coordinate schedule personal appearances.

Loss:

U.S. Beauties Pageant is not responsible for loss, theft or damage to all prizes & awards given to the contestants, runner-up & winners. If a contestant or winner crown is damaged and is beyond repair the replacement will be the sole responsibility of the winner.

Negligence:

U.S. Beauties Pageant is not responsible for fraud or negligence on the part of pageant sponsors, vendors such as photographer & videographer who may be supplying their services or products to contestants & winners.

Preliminary Pageant:

U.S. Beauties Pageant System is not liable for anything connected with the preliminary pageant. Contestants will look solely to her preliminary director regarding the rules, regulations, polices & preparation concerning the preliminary pageant.

Videography:

Video cameras will not be allowed during the pageant competition. Our U.S. Beauties Pageant videographer will have VHS or DVD's for purchase should yourself or family want a copy of your pageant competition. U.S. Beauties Pageant will not be held responsible for purchased DVD's & VHS Tapes not given to contestants.

Photography:

Cameras are not allowed during the pageant competition. Our U.S. Beauties Pageant photographer will take professional pageant pictures should you want to purchase them. U.S. Beauties Pageant will not be held responsible for purchased photo packages not given to contestants.

Deadlines:

All deadlines must be meet concerning entry fee, paperwork, required crown & banner picture & information required by the pageant director.

Minors:

Guest or audience member under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. U.S. Beauties Pageant System will not assume responsibility for a minor.

U.S. Beauties Myspace:

when our *Miss *Mrs. U.S. Beauties Prelim, State & National Queens/Contestants design a U.S. Beauties Pageant Myspace , all MySpace's should not contain inappropriate wording or music.

To be signed at the pageant!

Last Updated on: June 25, 2008