The United States Polo Association (USPA) membership year is from January 1 through December 31 of each year.

*For a full description of member club types please go to www.uspolo.org

USPA Terms And Conditions

Rules And Regulations:
1) The Member Club applicant acknowledges, understands, and agrees to be bound and to abide by the Constitution, By-laws, Rules, Tournament Conditions and Policies of the USPA, as published yearly in the USPA Rulebook, and as amended from time to time.
2) The Association is a voluntary, private sporting organization. Membership in the Association is subject to the requirements of membership set forth in the Association’s governing documents, as in effect from time to time. Subject to the provisions of the By- laws, a Member Club’s previously accepted membership or Member Club status may be suspended, revoked, or terminated at any time by the Association where such Member Club acts in any manner that is deemed, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Board of Governors, to be inconsistent with the Association’s Articles of Incorporation, By-laws, Constitution, Rules of the Association, including tournament conditions, or any policies or resolutions of the Association, including any of these Terms or Conditions.
3) The names of USPA® National and Circuit events are trademarks of the United States Polo Association®. USPA® trademarks may only be used with the permission of the USPA®. The Member Club applicant acknowledges, understands, and agrees that it shall not use the USPA® National and Circuit event names unless the Member Club has been awarded these events per the USPA® Tournament Conditions.

Insurance Requirements:
4) The Member Club applicant acknowledges, understands, and agrees that, as a USPA® Member Club, it must provide and maintain General Liability coverage (including liability coverage for club operations and participants in athletic or equine sports activities) with minimum limits of $1,000,000.00 each occurrence and in the aggregate, and with United States Polo Association®, its subsidiary & affiliated companies, directors, governors, officers, trustees, agents, employees, servants and volunteers included as additional insureds. Each USPA® Member Club shall provide to the USPA a certificate of insurance confirming compliance with these insurance requirements.

Release Of Liability, Hold Harmless, And Indemnity Agreement And Assumption Of Responsibility:
5) The Member Club applicant acknowledges, understands, and agrees to defend (at USPA’s request), indemnify and hold harmless USPA, USPA Affiliated Companies and subsidiaries including, but not limited to, USPA Polo Development LLC, USPA Umpires LLC, USPA Sunday Field LLC, NPC Polo Operations LLC, NPC Hospitality Operations Inc, and NPC Hospitality Management LLC (collectively, the “USPA”), USPA’s successors, licensees and assigns, USPA Individual Members and other USPA Member Clubs, and the Board of Governors, officers, directors, shareholders, employees and agents of each of the foregoing, from and against any and all liabilities, claims, demands, judgments, recoveries, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements) of any nature arising out of or relating to: (a) any breach of any representation or warranty of Member Club contained in this Agreement, (b) any breach or violation of any covenant or other obligation or duty of Member Club under this Agreement or under applicable law, (c) any liability involving horses, equine activities or the sport of polo and any tournaments or events sponsored by USPA or Member Club including, but not limited to, claims for bodily injury, death or damage to personal property arising out of Member Club’s negligence and/or intentional torts, and (d) any fees or bills due to vendors as a result of a USPA-sanctioned tournament or event. In addition to the above, Member Club applicant understands, acknowledges, and agrees that its indemnification and hold harmless obligation shall apply to any claims alleging defamation, invasion of privacy, copyright infringement, commercial appropriation, media errors & omissions, failure to give credit and other intellectual property torts, or injury or damage to third parties arising in tort or contract. The validity, interpretation, construction and enforcement of this agreement shall not be restricted or limited to the governing law of the Member Club country and shall also apply with regards to any and all claims brought forth in the United States of America.
6) The Member Club applicant agrees to be responsible for any injury or damage caused by itself, its members, agents, employees and/or their mounts, and expressly disclaims any responsibility or liability of USPA for any such injury or damage

Access To Property:
7) With prior notice, the Member Club applicant agrees to allow access to its grounds to any USPA® representative for the purposes including, but not limited to, facility inspection, animal welfare inspection or medication testing, or review of PDI expenditures.

8) Complete Agreement And Severability Clause: This Agreement represents the complete understanding between the parties regarding these issues and no oral representations, statements or inducements have been made apart from this Agreement. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this Agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Required Signature
By signing this Member Club Application and accepting the privileges of the USPA®, I (a) acknowledge that I have read, understand, accept and agree, on behalf of the Member Club applicant set forth below, that the Member Club applicant shall comply with and be bound by the terms of this Agreement and (b) confirm that I have been duly (1) appointed the Delegate of the Member Club named below and (2) authorized to execute and deliver this application on behalf of the Member Club named below.