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Overview of this form

The Facility Release Agreement - Show Or Clinic is a legal document that outlines the terms and conditions under which an equestrian facility can be used for horse shows or clinics. This form is specifically designed for situations where individuals or organizations wish to conduct equine-related events and need to ensure liability protections for the facility owner. It includes important clauses related to indemnification, risk warnings, and liability releases, distinguishing it from general facility use agreements by its focus on equine activities.

Key parts of this document

Identification of parties: Names and addresses of the facility owner (Farm) and the user.
Purpose of use: Specifies that the user is conducting a horse show or clinic.
Financial terms: Details regarding fees and payment for facility use.
Indemnification provisions: Outlines the user's responsibility to hold the facility harmless from claims.
Assumption of risk: Acknowledges the inherent risks involved with equine activities.
Legal disclaimers: Important warnings regarding liability under state laws related to equine activities.

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Common use cases

This Facility Release Agreement is necessary when an individual or organization intends to use a facility for horse shows or clinics. It should be used to protect both the facility owner and the user by clearly outlining responsibilities and risks associated with equestrian activities. This form is particularly important when events are open to the public or involve multiple participants, as it helps navigate legal liabilities that may arise from accidents or injuries.

Who can use this document

Facility owners who want to lease their property for equestrian events.
Event organizers planning horse shows or clinics.
Equine instructors offering public lessons or exhibitions.
Individuals or groups needing to formalize the use of a commercial stable space.

How to prepare this document

Identify the parties involved by filling in the names of the facility owner and the user.
Specify the facility location and the dates for which the facility will be used.
Enter the total amount due for the use of the facility.
Indicate whether the user will have access to the concession area and note any specific terms.
Sign the agreement, ensuring both parties date and sign in the provided spaces.

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Common mistakes to avoid

Failing to include the exact dates of the event.
Not specifying whether the concession stand will be used.
Leaving out signatures or dates, rendering the agreement unenforceable.
Overlooking to obtain necessary releases from clients who will use the services.

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Ability to edit and customize the agreement to fit specific event needs.
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Legal use & context

Contracts like this are enforceable under state law if all parties agree to the terms.
Users must understand their rights and liabilities outlined in the agreement.
The form serves as a legal shield for facility owners against claims stemming from equine-related injuries.

Key takeaways

The Facility Release Agreement is essential for safe and lawful usage of equestrian facilities.
Clear articulation of terms helps protect both the facility owner and the user from potential liabilities.
Proper completion of the form ensures better preparedness for legal responsibilities during equine events.

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Facility Release Agreement - Show Or Clinic - Horse Equine Forms

Sec. 1.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Equine Activity Liability Act. (Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.) (745 ILCS 47/5)

Sec. 5.

Purposes.

The General Assembly recognizes that persons who participate in equine activities may incur injuries as a result of the risks involved in those activities. The General Assembly also finds that the State and its citizens derive numerous economic and personal benefits from equine activities. Therefore, it is the intent of the General Assembly to encourage equine activities by delineating the responsibilities of those involved in equine activities.

(Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

Sec. 10.

Definitions.

As used in this Act:

(a) "Engages in an equine activity" means riding, training, assisting in medical treatment of, driving, or being a passenger upon an equine, whether mounted or unmounted, or assisting a participant. The term "engages in an equine activity" does not include being a spectator at an equine activity, except in cases where the spectator places himself in an unauthorized area and in immediate proximity to the equine activity.

(b) "Equine" means a horse, pony, mule, donkey, or hinny.

(1) Equine shows, fairs, competitions, performances, or parades that involve any or all breeds of equines and any of the equine disciplines, including, but not limited to, dressage, hunter and jumper horse shows, grand prix jumping, 3 day events, combined training, rodeos, driving, pulling, cutting, polo, steeplechasing, English and western performance riding, endurance trail riding and western games, and hunting.

(2) Equine training activities, teaching activities, or both.

(3) Boarding equines.

(4) Riding, inspecting, or evaluating an equine belonging to another, whether or not the owner has received some monetary consideration or other thing of value for the use of the equine or is permitting a prospective purchaser of the equine to ride, inspect, or evaluate the equine.

(5) Rides, trips, hunts, or other equine activities of any type however informal or impromptu that are sponsored by an equine activity sponsor.

(6) Placing or replacing horseshoes on an equine.

(d) "Equine activity sponsor" means an individual, group, club, partnership, or corporation, whether or not the sponsor is operating for profit or nonprofit, that sponsors, organizes, or provides the facilities for an equine activity, including, but not limited to, pony clubs, 4-H clubs, hunt clubs, riding clubs, school and college sponsored classes, programs and activities, therapeutic riding programs, and operators, instructors, and promoters of equine facilities, including, but not limited to, stables, clubhouses, pony ride strings, fairs, and arenas at which the activity is held.

(e) "Equine professional" means a person engaged for compensation

(i) in instructing a participant or renting to a participant an equine for the purpose of riding, driving, or being a passenger upon the equine, or

(ii) in renting equipment or tack to a participant.

(f) "Risks of engaging in equine activities" means those dangers of conditions that are an integral part of equine activities, including, but not limited to:

(1) The propensity of an equine to behave in ways that may result in injury, harm, or death to persons on or around them.

(2) The unpredictability of an equine's reaction to sounds, sudden movement, and unfamiliar objects, persons, other animals, or other things.

(3) Certain hazards such as surface and subsurface conditions.

(4) Collisions with other equines or objects.

(5) The potential of a participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to injury to the participant or others, such as failing to maintain control over the animal or not acting within his or her ability.

(g) "Participant" means any person, whether amateur or professional, who engages in an equine activity, whether or not a fee is paid to participate in the equine activity.

(Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

Sec. 15.

Participant's responsibility.

It is recognized that equine activities are hazardous to participants, regardless of all feasible safety measures that can be taken.

Each participant who engages in an equine activity expressly assumes the risk of and legal responsibility for injury, loss, or damage to the participant or the participant's property that results from participating in an equine activity, except in specific situations as set forth in Section 20, when the equine activity sponsor or equine professional may be held responsible. Each participant shall have sole individual responsibility for knowing the range of his or her own ability to manage, care for, and control a particular horse or perform a particular equine activity, and it shall be the duty of each participant to act within the limits of the participant's own ability, to maintain reasonable control of the particular horse or horses at all times while participating in an equine activity, to heed all posted warnings, to perform equine activities only in an area or in facilities designated by the horseman, and to refrain from acting in a manner that may cause or contribute to the injury of anyone.

Each participant, or parent or guardian of a minor participant, may execute a release assuming responsibility for the risks of engaging in equine activities. The release shall give notice to the participant, or parent or guardian, of the risks of engaging in equine activities, including (i) the propensity of an equine to behave in dangerous ways that may result in injury to the participant, (ii) the inability to predict an equine's reaction to sound, movements, objects, persons, or animals, and (iii) the hazards of surface or subsurface conditions. A release shall remain valid until expressly revoked by the participant or, if a minor, the parent or guardian.

(Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

Sec. 20.

Exceptions.

(a) This Act shall not apply to the horse racing industry as regulated in the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975.

(b) Except as provided in Section 15, nothing in this Act shall prevent or limit the liability of an equine activity sponsor, an equine professional, or any other person if the equine activity sponsor, equine professional, or person:

(1) Provided the equipment or tack, and knew or should have known that the equipment or tack was faulty, and the equipment or tack was faulty to the extent that it caused the injury.

(2) Provided the equine and failed to make reasonable and prudent efforts to determine the ability of the participant to engage safely in the equine activity and determine the ability of the participant to manage safely the particular equine based on the participant's representations of his or her ability.

(3) Owns, leases, rents, or otherwise is in lawful possession and control of the land or facilities upon which the participant sustained injuries because of a dangerous latent condition that was known to the equine activity sponsor, equine professional, or person and for which warning signs were not conspicuously posted.

(4) Commits an act or omission that constitutes willful or wanton disregard for the safety of the participant, and that act or omission caused the injury.

(5) Intentionally injures the participant.

(c) Nothing in this Act shall prevent or limit the liability of an equine activity sponsor or an equine professional: (1) Under liability provisions as set forth in the products liability laws.

(2) Under liability provisions in the Fence Act. (Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

Sec. 25.

Warning.

(a) Every equine professional shall post and maintain signs that contain the warning notice specified in subsection (b) of this Section. Signs shall be placed in a clearly visible location on or near stables, corrals, or arenas where the equine professional conducts equine activities if the stables, corrals, or arenas are owned, managed, or controlled by the equine professional. The warning notice specified in subsection (b) shall appear on the sign in black letters, with each letter to be a minimum of one inch in height. Every written contract entered into by an equine professional or the providing of professional services, instruction, or the rental of equipment or tack or an equine to a participant, whether or not the contract involves equine activities on or off the location or site of the equine professional's business, shall contain in clearly readable print the warning notice specified in subsection (b).

(b) The signs and contracts described in subsection (a) shall contain the following warning notice:

WARNING

Under the Equine Activity Liability Act, each participant who engages in an equine activity expressly assumes the risks of engaging in and legal responsibility for injury, loss, or damage to person or property resulting from the risk of equine activities.

(Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

Facility Release Agreement - Show Or Clinic - Horse Equine Forms

Sec. 1.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Equine Activity Liability Act. (Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.) (745 ILCS 47/5)

Sec. 5.

Purposes.

(Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

Sec. 10.

Definitions.

As used in this Act:

(b) "Equine" means a horse, pony, mule, donkey, or hinny.

(2) Equine training activities, teaching activities, or both.

(3) Boarding equines.

(5) Rides, trips, hunts, or other equine activities of any type however informal or impromptu that are sponsored by an equine activity sponsor.

(6) Placing or replacing horseshoes on an equine.

(e) "Equine professional" means a person engaged for compensation

(i) in instructing a participant or renting to a participant an equine for the purpose of riding, driving, or being a passenger upon the equine, or

(ii) in renting equipment or tack to a participant.

(f) "Risks of engaging in equine activities" means those dangers of conditions that are an integral part of equine activities, including, but not limited to:

(1) The propensity of an equine to behave in ways that may result in injury, harm, or death to persons on or around them.

(2) The unpredictability of an equine's reaction to sounds, sudden movement, and unfamiliar objects, persons, other animals, or other things.

(3) Certain hazards such as surface and subsurface conditions.

(4) Collisions with other equines or objects.

(g) "Participant" means any person, whether amateur or professional, who engages in an equine activity, whether or not a fee is paid to participate in the equine activity.

(Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

Sec. 15.

Participant's responsibility.

It is recognized that equine activities are hazardous to participants, regardless of all feasible safety measures that can be taken.

(Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

Sec. 20.

Exceptions.

(a) This Act shall not apply to the horse racing industry as regulated in the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975.

(1) Provided the equipment or tack, and knew or should have known that the equipment or tack was faulty, and the equipment or tack was faulty to the extent that it caused the injury.

(4) Commits an act or omission that constitutes willful or wanton disregard for the safety of the participant, and that act or omission caused the injury.

(5) Intentionally injures the participant.

(c) Nothing in this Act shall prevent or limit the liability of an equine activity sponsor or an equine professional: (1) Under liability provisions as set forth in the products liability laws.

(2) Under liability provisions in the Fence Act. (Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

Sec. 25.

Warning.

(b) The signs and contracts described in subsection (a) shall contain the following warning notice:

WARNING

(Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95.)

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