BY-LAWS AND PLAYING RULES - Hockey Calgary

HOCKEY CALGARY COMMUNITY HOCKEY14 Officials(a)(b)(c)Hockey Calgary requires that qualified and certified officials referee all levels of hockey, including the “FullIce” games played at the Timbits level. For Timbits “Cross ice” or “Half Ice” games, a certified coach orcoaches who are on the ice may act as a referee.During Minor Hockey Week and Play-offs, all major officials will be assigned by either the Central ZoneReferee Committee or the Community Referee Coordinators.Teams must supply off ice officials. The home team supplies the game timekeeper, and visiting team thescorekeeper. If no timekeeper is available, the referee must act as such or appoint someone.15 Length of GamesPermit length Length of periods 1, 2 and 31 hour permit 12, 15 and 15 minutes1 ¼ hour permit 15, 15 and 15 minutes1 ½ hour permit 15, 15 and 20 minutes1 ¾ hour permit 15, 20 and 20 minutes2 hour permit or greater 20, 20 and 20 minutesNote:i. All games are stop time.ii. No time outs permitted.iii. There will be a 3-minute warm-up before each game.iv. Floods between periods will only occur as follows: 1 3/4 hour permit - between 2nd and 3rd periods; 2hour permit - between 2nd and 3rd periods, 2 ¼ hour or greater permit, a flood will occur between boththe 1st and 2nd period and between the 2nd and 3rd period.v. For games of 1 hour and 1 1/4 hour duration, players will not leave the ice between periods.vi. For games of 1 1/2 hours or more, players will not leave the ice between periods when no flood occurs.vii. Hockey Calgary reserves the right to make special changes to the number and length of periods. Therespective League Chairperson/League Coordinator will duly notify teams of such changes.viii. No game will exceed the permit time. If undue delays occur for any reason and the game cannot becompleted within the permit time, the following procedure will be followed:a) At the first stoppage of play after time reaches 5 minutes left on the permit, the timekeeper willnotify the referee.b) At this stoppage of play the clock will be reset to 2 minutes and the remainder of the gamecompleted with stop time.16 Schedule Changes(a) Coaches, managers or Hockey Associations may not reschedule games. Only under exceptionalcircumstances (participation in tournaments, exhibition games or fund raisers do not qualify) canapplication be made to Hockey Calgary in writing, for permission to have Hockey Calgary reschedule agame. It should be noted that games could only be rescheduled with the approval of the Category Director,President or Chairperson of the Hockey Committee and the Hockey Calgary office. Failure to comply willresult in a loss of the two points to the offending team(s). In addition, the coach(s) will face furtherwww.hockeycalgary.com 37