RHS Rules and regulations.

1. Riva Clubs/Chapters and Delegates
   1. The Riva Clubs/Chapters are centres for meeting and friendship between owners and amateurs of Riva Boats. The RHS recognises Chapters as an important means for knowledge and contact of all matters related to their members and necessities.
   2. A Chapter may be recognized only if it is a profit free association, and only if it recognises and accepts the RHS statute and this regulation. Professionals cannot be elected President, Vice-President, Secretary or Treasurer.
   3. The RHS Board of Directors can chose, among RHS or Chapter members, its Delegates.
   4. Delegates are National, regional or local representatives of the RHS. They are a connection between the RHS and Riva owners. Their role is to diffuse the knowledge of the RHS locally, to promote our flag, favouring events, meetings and the creation of local clubs.
   5. Each Chapter must enrol to the RHS Registry all the members' boats, and possibly also all other Riva boats of which it has notice.
   6. Each Chapter must send the tentative calendar of its proposed events and meetings within the end of each year, after agreeing on the date with RHS (in order to avoid duplications of meetings and events in the same dates).
   7. Each Chapter can use the RHS logo and social pennant (Jack) and its President may use ashore the flag that competes to him.
   8. Chapters may ask the RHS for cooperation and all possible help in order to advertise their events and any favourable conditions for their members and for the participation to all RHS events.
   9. Chapters may ask to purchase promotional and advertising material at favourable conditions for their members.
   10. Chapters may have detached sections.

2. Membership fees.
   1. Chapter members must annually pay fees that are thus composed of a fixed amount (equal for all Chapters) plus a variable amount in function of the number of their members.
   2. Senator Members will pay a fee that is comparable to the fixed fee of the Chapters.
   3. Founder Members will pay a fee that must consider their voting rights.
   4. The request for the FIM Pilot licence, the RHS Historical Certificate, and the RHS Temporary Permit (that substitutes the Italian navigation documents) are optional.
   5. New membership applications to the RHS must be considered at the first possible meeting of the Board of Directors.
   6. Annual fees are valid until October 23rd, each year. The fees for the next year are due within December 31st, each year.
   7. A member that has been expelled from the RHS because of his resignation or following his overdue payments, (as indicated in the Statute), may present a motivated request for re-admittance to the Board of Directors and he may be re-admitted with a favourable vote of the Board after paying again the entrance fee.

3. Rights and duties of RHS and Chapter members.
   1. RHS members are those listed in the Statute
   2. Chapter members are the Riva owners and the Riva fans that will be admitted by each Chapter according to its criteria, also when owners of other marques.
   3. Members of Chapters and of RHS can enrol in other Chapters too.
   4. Rights:
      1. The exclusive right to wear the Social tie and to use the RHS flag and pennant as regulated by the Board of Directors.
      2. The right to receive gratuitously all that is offered and to purchase all that is offered for sale with RHS fee.
      3. The right to receive assistance and information useful for the maintenance and restoration, or relative to the known history of the boat, to receive information on the chapters and their events and the relevant newsletter.
      4. The right to participate to the events, meetings and social convivialities, to purchase what is for sale to members, to access favourable commercial agreements.
      5. The right to be informed if any of the candidates are professionals or amateurs.
      6. The right to offer suggestions and criticisms aiming at the improvement of the Association life.
      7. The right to be informed if the boats for sale on the RHS newsletter are sold by privates or professionals.
   5. Duties:
      1. All members who hold positions in the RHS and/or the Chapters may not use their role to obtain personal advantages. All members who hold positions in the RHS and/or the Chapters should consider their duty to participate to events whenever possible.
      2. All members who organise or are involved in the organisation of events cannot compete for the RHS Cups (Carlo Riva C. and Yard C.)
      3. When events are organised by a Chapter or by RHS, the participants must all be members of RHS or Chapters. In case of an external organisation, RHS will preferably patronise those Organising Committees that grant special fees to RHS and Chapter members, or who ask to be exclusively patronised by RHS, or to Committees that organise events with Rivas only.
      4. All professional members of the RHS may not use their membership as a professional qualification. When they offer their services, they must, within reason, favour other members. When they offer boats for sale through the RHS newsletter, they must offer guarantee on the real conditions in which they are.
      5. All members who have useful information or that can offer favourable conditions to others will be appreciated if they share such information with other members (parts, boats, sales, transport facilities, etc…)
      6. All fees are to be promptly paid. Those members that are overdue may not vote.
   6. Duties/Rights:
      1. All Chapters must accept the inscription to their events of members of RHS and of other Chapters, without asking them to enrol in their Chapter (unless it is necessary to enrol in the National Nautical Federation). A different fee may be requested to guest members of RHS and other Chapters.
      2. The Chapter has the right to request the enrolment of a guest member, when this regularly attends its quarters, meetings and events.

4. Technical and Functional Committees.
   1. The Committees are made of RHS and Chapter members, who collaborate with the Board of Directors for the development of the Association and the realisation of the approved programs. Committees are made of volunteers. Each Committee must work under the direction of a member of the Board of Directors of the RHS that is responsible for relating its activity to the said board. Each Committee can be made of one or more people. A Director can co-ordinate and refer about more than one Committee.
   2. The R.I.H. Registry Committee is responsible for the registry, under listings of owners, Nations, Chapters, type of boat, number of hull, and other categories.
   3. The Accounting Committee is responsible for fundings, donations, and sponsorships and for the economic management of the funds, to satisfy their obligations to the sponsors.
   4. The Sports Committee is responsible for the races, authorisations and all relations with the local Motonautical Federations.
   5. The Judges Committee, is responsible for the training of Judges, the scoring of boats during meetings and the issuing of the Historical Boat Score.
   6. The Events Committee is responsible for organising the events of RHS or co-ordinating the events of Chapters and that the programme and evolution of the event is always in standard with the Riva name.
   7. The Public Relations Committee is responsible for all relations with the press, authorities, with other Associations and with Chapters and Delegates.
   8. The Image Committee is responsible for the creation of gadgets and clothing with the RHS logo, trophies and press releases.

5. Riva International Historical Registry.
   1. This is the main body that collects all information concerning history and location of Riva Boats, of all models and periods, from the origin to present.
   2. Information may be acquired from anyone, on the appropriate form, that must be completed in all its parts and signed by the person rendering the information for its authenticity and with the explicit consent to use that information for the aim of the RHS.
   3. This information is the wealth of all present and future members of the RHS.
   4. Each Chapter may create a section for Riva "look-alike" boats.
   5. All information may be recorded in a specific register. Those owners, who do not want to be listed in it, must address a written request to RHS.
   6. The names of the members will be also recorded and cannot, by law, be kept secret.

6. Historical Curriculum.
   1. This curriculum certifies past property passages and may be obtained onerously from the RHS, directly or through specialised service companies, provided one can supply the old number of registration in Italy, at the local Port Authorities or civil registries or Regional Offices.

7. RHS Historical Boat Score.
   1. The RHS historical boat score may be issued by the RHS after an accurate inspection of the boat by a specific commission of three members, amongst whom at least one must be an RHS registered judge and may be helped by local members or professionals as experts.
   2. To be listed in the Registry of Judges, a judge must be a member of RHS or a Chapter, have attended a course organised by RHS and not be a professional.
   3. The eldest RHS judge will be the committee chief. There cannot be more than one local expert in a committee. These experts cannot judge the boats of their customers. If one of these boats is to be judged, they must ask for a substitute and, if this is not possible, their vote will be assumed from the average of the votes of the other two judges.
   4. The inspection will produce a score, according to the RHS Historical boat scoring system. Inspections are usually carried out gratuitously or by refund of expenses during events or meetings.
   5. Those members that desire their boat to be judged must have all the historical documents ready, as stated by the RHS boat scoring system.
   6. Only those boats for which the score has been created may be judged. The score thus received will be valid for 2 years, and may be extended for 2 more years, after having controlled that no modifications have been made to the boat and that there has been no major decay of the state of conservation of the boat.
   7. This score is valid for participation in the RHS events.

8. Flags.
   1. Ensign: is the flag of the Nation of the member of the RHS or of the member of the Chapter. European Members may use the European Flag.
   2. Logo: a Riva runabout with the Riva trade Mark in its wake and "Historical Society" arched below it.
   3. Pennant: It is triangular for all members.
   4. Other pennants may be used as directed.

9. Additional Regulations for the navigation in Italian waters and for the Italian Chapters.
   1. The RHS temporary permit is issued, on request of the RHS member or Member of a Chapter that self-certifies the ability to sail of his boat, as for art.14 of the sailing regulations, for all sports events as regulated by the FIM and for all training sessions. This whenever the boat does not have the sailing permit.
   2. Safety instalments must be present as requested by local laws.
   3. The RHS temporary permit, signed by FIM, with the list of all passengers must be kept on board as a substitute of the sailing permit.
   4. It is valid for 3 months.
   5. All boats must in any case be insured for third party responsibility and have all documents requested by local laws.
   6. All foreign members that are not enrolled with local Sport Boating Federations must enrol with FIM when participating in Italian events, therefore enrol in the national Chapter at a reduced fee. This same rule applies, when needed, in the other countries.
   7. The Italian Chapters must pay to the RHS an extra fee (with respect to non Italian Chapters) to cover the enrolment of all their members to FIM.

Chapters may ask the board of Directors for explanatory or applicatory papers.