Category Archives: By-law Proposals

2023 By-Law Proposals

2023 Bylaw Proposals

Sliwa-
“If a coach drops himself, for whatever reason, he is not eligible to coach the following season”.
Yay: 16
Nay: 18

Davenport-
Article 7 – Rules Governing Play
Section 7 Game Times
Rule   B Early Game – Early games will start at 6:30pm, and forfeit time is 6:30pm. (Note) The first 5 games of the regular season at Friendship Park fields only; will start at 6:15pm due to early season daylight issues. (2013)
New Rule
Early Game – Early games will start at 6:30pm, and forfeit time is 6:30pm
Yay: Unanimous
Nay:

Section 18 Trading Players
A General – Trading of players will be permitted up until the Monday after the 2nd Game played.
B Board Approval – All trades must be approved or denied by the LOMSL Executive Board.
C Website Posting – All trades will be posted on the LOMSL web site, for three days from the original date of Board notification, for all coaches to see and to make counter offers.
D Phone Call – Coaches will also be contacted by a Board member by phone and the trade will not be finalized until this time period has passed.
E Posting Deadline – The proposed trade must be posted by 6pm, the Sunday before the third regular scheduled game.
F Trade Deadline – All trades will be finalized by 6pm, the Wednesday before the start of the third regular scheduled season game.

NEW BY-LAW Proposal
Section 18 Trading Players
You have up to the 6th game to trade a player or players.  You can not trade on the 6th game day.  Three members of the board have to approve the trade for it to be valid.
Yay: 35
Nay: 2

Nick Dallas-Cannot be brough up turned in too late.
Rule proposal to go in effect before registration 2024 season and beyond.

Players must be medically cleared to play in order to sign up for the draft. This applies to new and returning players.

Injured players may be put into the preferred hat at any point during the season in which hat picks are eligible once they are medically cleared to play.

End rule

Starting the season short with an unknown return date or date after the start of the season Shouldn’t be able to just sign up.
This takes away from players and possible coaches that are healthy and can plan to play the entirety of the season.

2017 By-Law Proposals

LOMSL By-Law proposals 2017

  • Ricky Slater, “If you coach, your son will be put on your team, the round will be chosen by the rest of the coaches prior to the first pick of the draft”
  • Dean Klovski, Article 2, (there is 2 section 2’s) Section 3. A. insert “league statistician and Webmaster” as positions that are paid by league funds.
  • Article 4 sec 1 F. could we add virtual meetings with this? Also, should remove, “at the meeting” & “at the meeting” in this bylaw. The bylaw is not a meeting, it’s to amend a bylaw, please see meeting in Article 5.
  • Article 6 sec 4 A. Proposal add, “person chosen from the hat, must pay and sign required forms and provide to an Executive Board member, before the player steps foot on the field of play”
  • Proposal to Article 6 sec 5 D. “If a player shows up to play the week that the team proved they will have less than 9 players, the said player will be ineligible to play that regular season game, playoff or World Series game”
  • New Proposal, “No team shall go to the Hat after the conclusion of the 11th week of the season. Unless the team is faced with Article 6, section 5 D.”
  • Section 6 D. New proposal, “It is the UIC responsibility to know and have available the current Lake Orion Men’s Softball League By-laws for his current umpire team”
  • Proposal new, “ All awards will be picked at the end of the regular season and announced at the   banquet”

2016 By-law Proposals

2016 By-law changes

Article 3-Registration
Addition to the by-law:

• All coach’s must have their dues paid before they meet to draw the draft order and coach slotting order.
• On the last day of registration there will be no on-line registration so there are no technical difficulties that would prevent us from the drawing of hat picks, if they are needed.

Article 3-Registration-F

Current by-law:

F. Late Fee-If a member of the Executive Board has not received a player’s applicable fees before the completion of the second-to-last Pre-Registration session, the player shall be required to pay an additional $20 late fee in addition to any other applicable fees.

New By-law:

Late Fee-If a member of the Executive Board has not received a player’s applicable fees before the last registration date, on the date of the last registration a $20 late fee will be charged in addition to any other applicable fees.