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<DIV>I could see an autocrat class as an option, but I'd be hesitant to expect them to actually remember / keep up with the various martial activity rules. Yes, a very quick overview but the big admonition I'd think would be to check with their local experts.</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> John Atkins <A href="mailto:cogworks@triad.rr.com">cogworks@triad.rr.com</A><BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN class=968532918-26092010>Having read the original, Janyn and Siegfried's responses to this I hessitate to make a suggestion, but let's at least think it over a bit. To become a warranted marshal of any activity in the SCA, archery, heavy, light, equestrian, the individual must attend a class and be a MIT for some events, number depends upon activity, before they are issued a warrant. Simply stated, they are a CERTIFIED marshal of that activity. This also applies to receiving a warrant for exchequer and some other offices. However, and to the best of my knowledge, to be an autocrat one need only suffer from helium hand, i.e. volunteer. Now I am NOT a big fan for over regulating anything, I firmly believe good common sense often trumps regulations, however, it is often prooved over and over that common sense is NOT common. Thus is it not
time to require anyone desiring to be an autocrat to pass through the same type of process an exchequer or marshal has to pass through? Archery range size and safety zones are only one of many things an autocrat must take into cosideration in running a good, safe event. To take this out of the realm of archery, does an autocrat know that they must purchase additional insurance if equestrian is involved? Do they double check the equestrian field for holes in which a horse could stumble and possibly break a leg? And what about equestrian archery? Now there's a REAL headache in the waiting! If we realize that the autocrat of an event is ultimately and legally responsible for what happens at that event do they not assume the same degree of "exposure" that all marshals and exchequers experience? If Atlantia had an autocrat warranting process we could easily include safety requirements for all our
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