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Referee Addendum

AMSA Referee Addendum*

• All teams are expected to provide an official printed roster/game report. If a player isn’t listed on the roster or doesn’t have a player card or government issued id, he is not allowed to play. Player’s names may not be written into the roster.
• Each center referee is expected to turn in or, if not at Onion Creek, mail a completed game report within 24 hours of each game he or she officiates. This report must
  • be signed by each team captain
  • contain the name and number of any players who receive cards or are seriously injured and the time of each occurrence
  • contain the names of any other officials working the game
• Any center who fails to turn in a game report or doesn’t turn in a report in a timely fashion will be subject to disciplinary action by the AMSA Referee Coordinator. At the discretion of the Coordinator, this discipline may take the form of suspension from centering AMSA games for a specific time to suspension of doing any AMSA games.
• Referee fees are $40 per game for centers, $25 per game for ARs, and $50 per game for single centers. Typically, fees are collected at the beginning of a game or, at the discretion of the referees present, at half-time. Each team pays half the total game fee, which means the referees collect from each team either $45 (full crew), $32.50 (center and one AR), or $25 (single center).
• The only person within AMSA who can assign or reassign referees is the AMSA Referee Coordinator. Any referee attempting to reassign games in order to increase his or her pay by then being a single center will be disciplined.
• If an assigned center referee isn’t present at game time, the AR1 should make an effort to contact the AMSA Referee Coordinator to inform him of the absence and to find out how the Coordinator wants the AR1 to proceed. If the Coordinator cannot be contacted, the AR1 can start the game as the center referee and be paid as a center. Once the game has begun, if the originally assigned center shows up, he or she will take an AR position and be paid as an AR.
• Unless there are extenuating circumstances, referees are expected to
  • Be at the field and start team check-in 10 minutes before game time
  • Start the game clock at the scheduled game time whether or not teams are ready and to announce to the team captains that you have done so
  • Take only a 10-minute half-time break
• If a referee needs to shorten a game (AMSA Rules 4.1.4 and 4.1.5), he or she needs to inform both captains prior to the start of the game that the game will be shortened and by how much.
• A team must have at least 7 players to start a game. Once both teams have at least 7 players, the game should be started.
• No more than four (4) multiple players (designated by the number 5 on the roster next the multiple players’ names) may play in any one match for team other than their primary team. This Rule must be invoked by the opposing captain before the start of the match in question, or it shall be considered waived. (New AMSA rule starting 2009-10 season)