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764.000 ACTIVITY ELIGIBILITY BY-LAWSIncluded in this Section:4.000 Activity Eligibility By-laws4.010 Attendance4.020 Scholastic Standing4.030 Participation Limitations4.040 Age4.050 Use of Assumed Name4.060 Misbehavior During Activities4.070 Use of Participants4.080 Spirit LimitationsStudents in member schools shall be eligible to participate in interscholastic activity contests as representatives of their schools provided:4.010 ATTENDANCE4.011 A student must attend a member school and may only represent in interscholastic competition the member school the student attends. For purposes of this by-law, the term “attend” shall mean that the student is enrolled at the member school and is taking at, or under arrangements approved by, the member school, a minimum of twenty-five (25) credit hours of work for which credittoward high school graduation will be granted by the member school upon the student’s completing and passing the courses. The school which enrolls the student shall be exclusively responsible to verify the student’s compliance with all of the eligibility requirements of the by-laws.The Board of Directors shall have discretion to waive this requirement of this by-law for the Illinois schools for the deaf or blind. In unit systems having a 6-3-3 or 6-4-2 type of organization, ninth grade students may participate on senior high school teams at the member high school in the district designated by the Board of Education, provided:(a) such participation is approved by the district’s superintendent of schools;(b) the senior high school principal shall certify that the ninth grade students:(1) are eligible under the requirements of these By-laws;(2) are students at a junior high school located in the district which supports the senior high school; and(3) are not members of a grade or junior high school team in the same activity; and(c) the senior high school principal assumes full responsibility for the conduct of these students during all contests in which they represent the senior high school.4.012 They shall have been enrolled and in attendance not later than the beginning of the eleventh school day of the semester. Exception may be considered only if written verification that delay in enrollment or attendance is caused by illness of thestudents or their immediate family or by other circumstances deemed acceptable by the Board of Directors which are submitted to the Executive Director for presentation to the Board of Directors.4.013 Including a student’s name on school attendance records for a period of ten (10) or more school days during any given semester, beginning with the date of the student’s first physical attendance and ending with the date of the student’s officialwithdrawal from school, shall constitute a semester of attendance for the student.4.014 If a student does not attend school for ten (10) days in a semester, as defined in Section 4.013, but participates in any interscholastic activity, the student shall be considered to have completed a semester of attendance, unless withdrawal from school occurs prior to completion of ten (10) days attendance and is necessitated by disabling illness or injury which is certified by a physician.4.015 They shall not have any lapse of school connection during any given semester of greater than ten consecutive school days. Lapse of school connection for greater than ten consecutive school days shall render them ineligible for the remainder of the entire semester. Exceptions may be considered only if written verification that lapse in school connection is caused by illnessof the students or their immediate family or by other circumstances deemed acceptable to the Board of Directors which are submitted to the Executive Director for presentation to the Board of Directors.4.016 Absence of students required by military service to state or nation in the time of any state of national emergency shall not affect students’ eligibility.