UCI CYCLING REGULATIONS  (text modified on 01.01.05)  (text modified on 01.01.04; 01.01.05)  Penalties shall be imposed by the commissaires' panel by a majority vote.  Such decisions shall be set down in a signed report.  (text modified on 01.01.00; 01.01.05)  E0221  GENERAL ORGANISATION OF CYCLING AS A SPORT  54  1.2.130 The commissaires' panel or, if necessary, each individual commissaire, shall take all  decisions that may be required to ensure the proper conduct of the race. Those decisions  shall be taken in keeping with the applicable provisions of the regulations and, to the  extent of the possible, after consulting the race administration.  1.2.129 Moreover each of the commissaires shall be individually entitled to take the following  measures:  1.  to refuse to allow riders to start who do not comply with the regulations or who  are manifestly not in any condition to participate in the race;  2.  to give warnings and to inflict an admonition;  3.  to immediately remove from the competition a rider who commits a serious  fault, who is manifestly not in any condition to continue the competition, who  has dropped so far behind as not to be able to catch up again or who  constitutes a danger to other persons.  1.2.128 The commissaires shall note infringements and impose penalties in matters within their  authority.  Each commissaire shall individually observe infringements and note them in a report  bearing his signature. Commissaires' reports shall constitute conclusive evidence of the  facts they observe, in the absence of proof to the contrary.  1.2.127 The commissaires' panel shall have any irregularity it may observe in the organisation of  the race rectified.  1.2.126 The commissaires' panel shall verify that the specific race regulations comply with the  present regulations. It shall rectify or have rectified any provisions that do not comply  and shall mention that fact during the meeting with the organiser and team managers.  § 3  Powers of the commissaires' panel  Expenses  1.2.125 Commissaires shall be entitled to reimbursement of their expenses. Except in the case  of international commissaires appointed by the UCI to sit on the commissaires' panel,  the amounts and modes of payment shall be determined by the national federation of  the organiser.  1.2.124 UCI international commissaires have, furthermore, to provide a detailed report on the  form provided for that purpose, giving their evaluation of the race, and to send it to the  UCI in a maximum of 14 days. They must also use e-mail - or any other method specified  by the UCI - to send the complete result of the event to the UCI, at the earliest opportunity  and within 2 hours at the latest. 