Parade Rules & Waiver

• Open to exhibitors from Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Jenkins, Screven and Tattnall counties ONLY

• Applications must be filed with the Parade Chairman to enter the parade.  Applications must be submitted online.

• Applications for all entries must be received by NOON, Monday, October 9.

• While every reasonable precaution will be taken for safeguarding participants entered in the parade, the owner assumes all responsibility for any accident, loss or damage that may occur.
• The Kiwanis Ogeechee Fair Parade is a family-oriented event.  All costumes and performances will be designed as such. Any lewd or suggestive dance movements will not be tolerated, and the group will be asked to leave the parade route immediately.  Offending group members will be banned from future parades until he/she has been reinstated by a majority vote of the Fair committee.
• Judges will be appointed by the Parade Committee and certified by the Fair Committee.
• All participants must have their line-up number posted to their group both front and back in 6” numbers.  Line-up number will be furnished when you are given your position in the parade.  This will be late in the week before the event, after the application deadline has passed.

• There will be NO animals permitted in our parade.
• Floats must be in their designated parade position no later than 4:15pm, Monday, October 16, 2023. All other entries must be in place by 4:30 pm.
• Winners in the float competition will be notified after the parade by email.
• Any group participating that has small children must have a vehicle directly behind their group to allow the children to ride when they get tired.  You may allow part of the children to ride while others are walking.  If your group of small children will not be able to walk the full-length parade route to College Plaza you may contact Bobby Turner at parade@kiwanisogeecheefair.org for optional departure locations and make proper arrangements for pick up by the responsible adults.

• For health and safety purposes the following must be observed:

• No more than eight (8) persons on an entry other than a float, including the driver.

• Absolutely no throwing of candy or other material from any vehicle in the parade. It is permissible to hand candy and material directly to those at the curb line.

• If your group is performing in the parade and you need to stop several times during the parade to perform, be sure that your performance does not cause a backup of the units following you or leave a large space in the parade procession. Stops of 15 seconds or longer are an excessive delay of the parade progress. Please keep our Parade moving—without GAPS.

For and in exchange for valid consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned driver, , agrees and represents that he or she is a lawfully licensed driver and holds a valid (STATE OF) driver’s license. 

The undersigned driver, also, agrees and represents that he or she has and will maintain in full force and effect a policy of automobile insurance on the vehicle he or she will be driving on the date of the Kiwanis Ogeechee

Fair Parade, which is currently scheduled for Monday, October 16, 2023, which will or might be used as either

a “tow vehicle” or as a vehicle carrying or transporting participants in the Kiwanis Ogeechee Fair Parade.

The undersigned driver, further, agrees and represents that his or her policy of automobile insurance will be designated as the “primary” or principal policy of insurance in the event of a loss, claim of loss, suit for damages, or other such demand for payment which might be occasioned or occur as a result of any occurrence between the undersigned driver, his or her vehicle, or any trailer, flatbed trailer, or other such platform that the undersigned might or will be driving and/or towing and any other party claiming a loss in connection with the Kiwanis Ogeechee Fair Parade.

The undersigned driver, finally, agrees that he or she will immediately notify the President of the Kiwanis Club of Statesboro, Inc., Chris Wiggins, in the event of an injury, or claim of injury, and/or in the event of a loss, or claim of loss, occasioned by the use of his or her said vehicle, trailer, flatbed trailer, or other such platform before, during, or after the Kiwanis Ogeechee Fair Parade.