Court Cards or Attendance Sheets
Below we list a variety of court card related guides and materials
collected from around the world.
World Services Meeting Notes, Vienna, Virginia, September 2001
- Available on this web site in English
(PDF File)
This bulletin, written in 2002 by the World Board, is meant to serve as a
response to the numerous inquiries received from groups regarding meeting
attendance cards.
- Available on this web site in English
(PDF File)
Paper written by the UK Region's PI Committee clarifying PI's perspective on
"chits", 2005
- Available on this web site in English
(PDF File)
Paper written by Florida and South Florida regional PI committees on court
cards, 2001 (updated 2005)
- Available on this web site in English
(PDF File)
NAWS item regarding our contact with drug courts, NAWS News 1999
- Available on this web site in English
(PDF File)
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Court cards?
"Court cards" are those documents newcomers bring to
meetings to have signed to prove to the government that they
have attended a NA meeting. There is some differences
of opinion on the issue where some groups don't believe in
signing these cards as they believe it is a violation of the
Sixth Tradition (endorsing an outside enterprise).
Other groups don't believe it is a violation feeling that
it is an individual service and not one of NA as a whole.
Who's right? The World Board responded with Bulletin 31
and advises that it is up to the group conscience to decide
if cards are to be signed or not. |
Tradition Six:
"An NA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the NA
name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest
problems of money, property or prestige divert us from our
primary purpose." |
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