AIS: Official AIS Regisration/Intoduction regulations

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> From: BigAlligator@aol.com [B*@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 18:49
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: SHOW: Deciding What Constitutes
> "Introduction"
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>  How would one go about introducing an Iris?
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> Mark A. Cook
> BigAlligator@aol.com
> Dunnellon, Florida      [Low 41 F, High 62 F]
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Chris Hollinshead replies:
Here are the official AIS regulations for both Registration and Introduction
as published previously and recently in the AIS Bulletin. (including the
addendum from January 1998 AIS Bulletin)

They seem to be fairly straightforward.
They are available at any time on our CIS website at the direct URL of:
http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS/register.html

...and I have transposed the info below for the record. I believe that this
also answers in the affirmative Carolyn's question of whether advertisement
on the internet constitutes "introduction". At this point, as the registrar
requires, unless revised it would just require a postal submission of a
print out of the "advertisement" to be a valid intro.

Christopher Hollinshead
Mississauga, Ontario  Canada  zone6b
AIS(Region 16), CIS, SSI
Director-Canadian Iris Society (CIS)
Newsletter Editor-Canadian Iris Society
E-mail:  cris@netcom.ca <c*@netcom.ca>
Canadian Iris Society (CIS) website:  http://www.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS.html
Siberian-Species Convention 2003 website:
http://www.netcom.ca/~cris/2003/index.html
Iris-talk info: http://www.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS/iristalk.html

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How to register and introduce an iris
These instructions apply to the registration of all classes of irises except
bulbous irises.

Registration:

1. Write to the AIS Registrar, Keith Keppel, P.O. Box 18154, Salem, OR
97305, for a registration blank, enclosing check for the registration fee
payable to the American Iris Society. The fee is $7.50 per registration or
$10.00 if transferring a name from a previous registration.

2. At the same time, select a name, which has not previously been used, and
submit it for approval. To determine availability of a name, please refer to
all ten-year checklists (beginning 1939) and annual Registrations and
Introductions booklet (beginning 1990). Please also suggest alternate names.
A name is not registered until the registration application has been
completed and approved and a certificate of registration returned to you.

3. Names should follow the rules established by the International Code of
Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. Rules are subject to change, but at the
present time the following names will not be permitted;
a. Names of living persons without their written consent or names of
recently (10 years) deceased persons without permission of next of kin or
other authority.
b. Personal names containing the following forms of address or their
equivalent in another language: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms.
c. Names including symbols, numerals, non-essential punctuation or
abbreviations.
d. Names beginning with the articles “a” or “the” or their equivalent in
other languages unless required by linguistic custom.
e. Names in Latin or in latinized form.
f. Slight variation of a previously registered name.
g. Names in excess of three words, ten syllables, or thirty letters.
h. Names containing the word “iris” or “flag” or the species name of any
recognized species of Iris, or formed wholly by recombining puts of the
parental species’ names.’
i. Names containing the hybridizer’s name in possessive form.
j. Names which exaggerate or may become inaccurate (e.g. Heaviest Lace,
Tallest Black), or which are composed solely of adjectives which could be
construed as a simple description (e.g. Pale Blue, Ruffled).
k.Names translated from the original language; they should be transliterated
as necessary.

4. Previously registered names may be re-used only if (a) the original
registration has not been introduced or distributed by name, (b) does not
appear by name in the parentage of later registrations, and (c) a statement
of permission is obtained from the prior registrant

5. Names will not be released as obsolete unless there is proof that no
stock now exists and that the iris was not listed as a parent in
registrations.

Introduction: (defined)

Introduction is the offering for sale to the public. Catalogs, printed lists
and advertisements in the American Iris Society Bulletin are acceptable
means of introduction.  It (introduction) is a requisite of awards of the
Society above that of High Commendation. A variety is not eligible for
listing on the awards ballot until after it has been recorded as introduced
by the Registrar-Recorder. Send the Registrar a copy of your list, catalog
or advertisement by first class mail so verification of introduction can be
made.  The Registrar will supply a sample application form upon receipt of a
stamped self-addressed envelope.


Addendum: Revision, from January 1998 AIS Bulletin:

At the fall Board meeting it was voted to decrease the time that paid
reserved names will be held, from the present five-year limit to three
years.

Starting with the 1998 registrations year (December 1, 1997 ­ November 30,
1998), names paid will be held for a maximum of four years; names paid
December 1, 1998, or later will be held for three years.

The full five-year reservation period will be maintained for all reserved
names which had been paid prior to December 1, 1997. As before, at the end
of the reservation period it is possible to reserve the name for an
additional period of time upon payment of the $7.50 registration fee. Once
the registration application form has been submitted and the registration
certificate issued, no further action is required of the hybridizer, other
than notifying the registrar if/when the iris is introduced. There is only
one fee: the $7.50 charge for clearing the name includes the eventual
registration and recording of introduction.

Since approximately 99% of registrations currently completed use names
reserved within the three-year period, we anticipate no major inconvenience
to registrants.




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