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RULE 10 FOULS AND PENALTIES
SECTION 1 TEAM TECHNICAL
A team shall not:
ART.1...Fail to supply the scorer with the name and number of each team member who may participate and designate the five starting players at least 10 minutes before the scheduled starting time.
ART.2...After the time limit specified in Article 1:
a.) Change a designated starter unless necessitated as in 3-2-2a.
b.) Add a name to the team member list.
c.) Require the scorer to change a team member's or player's number in the scorebook.
d.) Require a player to change to the number in the scorebook.
e.) Have identical numbers on team members and/or players.
ART.3...Use television monitoring or replay equipment or computers (other than for statistics) for coaching purposes during the game or any intermission or use a megaphone or any mechanical sounding device or any electronic transmission device at courtside for coaching purposes, or electronic equipment for voice communication with players.
ART.4...Fail to occupy the team member's bench to which it is assigned.
ART.5...Allow the game to develop into an actionless contest, this includes the following and similar acts:
a.) When the clock is not running consuming a full minute through not being ready when it is time to start either half.
b.) Delay the game by preventing the ball from being made promptly live or from being put in play. See 7-5-1 and 8-1-1 for the specific procedure to resume play following a time-out or the intermission between quarters. The procedure is used prior ro charging a technical foul in these specific situations.
c.) Contact with the free thrower or a huddle of two or more players by either team prior to a free throw following the team warning for this delay.
d.) Interfering with the ball following a goal after the team warning for this delay.
ART.6...Have more than five team members participating simultaneously.
ART.7...Request an excess time-out.
ART.8...Commit an unsporting foul.
ART.9...Fail to have all players return to the court at approximately the same time during a time-out or intermission.
ART.10...Following the team warning for delay in 9-2-11, commit a violation of the throw-in boundary-line plane.
ART.11...Allow players to lock arms or grasp a teammate(s) in an effort to restrict the movement of an opponent.
PENALTY: (All articles) Two free throws plus ball for division-line throw-in. (Art. 1) One foul for both requirements. (Art.2) One foul only per team regardless of the number of infractions. (Art. 2a) Penalized if discovered before ball becomes live to start game. (Arts. 1, 2b, c, d) Penalized when they occur. (Art. 2e) Penalized when discovered. (Art. 6) Penalized if discovered while being violated.
SECTION 2 SUBSTITUTE TECHNICAL
A substitute shall not enter the court:
ART.1...Without reporting to the scorers.
ART.2...Without being beckoned by an official, except between quarters.
PENALTY: (Arts.1, 2) Two free throws plus ball for division-linme throw-in. One foul for either or both requirements. Penalized if discovered before the ball becomes live.
NOTE: A single flagrant technical foul or the second technical foul charged to a substitute results in disqualification of the offender to the team bench.
SECTION 3 PLAYER TECHNICAL
A player shall not:
ART.1...Participate after changing his/her number without reporting it to the scorers and an official.
ART.2...Participate after having been disqualified.
ART.3...Wear an illegal number or an illegal shirt or illegal pants/skirt.
ART.4...Leave the court for an unauthorized reason or delay returning after legally being out of bounds.
ART.5...Grasp either basket during the time of the officials' jurisdiction, dunk or stuff, or attempt to dunk or stuff a dead ball prior ro or during the game or during any intermission until jurisdiction of the officials has ended. This item applies to all team members.
EXCEPTION: A player may grasp the basket to prevent injury.
ART.6...
a.) Place a hand on the backboard or ring to gain an advantage.
b.) While a try or tap is in flight or is touching the backboard or is in the basket or in the cylinder above the basket, intentionally slap or strike the backboard or cause the rim to vibrate.
ART.7...Delay the game by acts such as:
a.) Preventing the ball from being made live promptly or from being put into play.
b.) Failing when in control, to immediately pass the ball to the nearer official when a violation or foul is called.
c.) The free thrower fails to be in the free-throw semicircle when the official is ready to administer the free throw unless the resuming-play procedure is in effect following a time-out or intermission.
d.) Repeated violations of the throw-in, as in 9-2-9, 10.
ART.8...Commit an unsporting foul. This includes, but is not limited to, acts or conduct such as:
a.) Disrespectfully addressing or contacting an official or gesturing in such a manner as to indicate resentment.
b.) Using profane or inappropriate language or obscene gestures.
c.) Baiting or taunting an opponent.
NOTE: The NFHS disapproves of any form of taunting which is intended or designed to embarrass, ridicule or demean others under any circumstances including on the basis of race, religion, gender or national origin.
d.) Obstructing the vision of an opponent not in control of the ball by waving hands near his/her eyes.
NOTE: Purposely diverting an opponent's attention by waving is different than holding or waving the hands near the opponent's eyes for the express purpose of obstructing the vision so that he/she cannot catch the ball.
e.) Climbing on or lifting a teammate to secure greater heigth.
f.) Knowingly attempting a free throw or accepting a foul to which the player was not entitled.
g.) Use tobacco or smokeless tobacco.
ART.9...Intentionally or flagrantly contacting an opponent when the ball is dead and such contact is not a personal foul.
ART.10...Be charged with fighting.
ART.11...Goaltend during a free throw.
ART.12...Reach through the throw-in boundary-line plane and touch or dislodge the ball as in 9-2 Penalty 3.
PENALTY: (All Articles) Two free throws plus the ball for division-line throw-in. (Arts. 1, 2, 10) Are flagrant. (Arts.1, 2) Penalized if discovered while being violated. (Art.3) Each violation is penalized one time if discovered prior to ball becoming live for each designated starter and each substitute who enters. (Art.2) The foul is also charged indirectly to the head coach. (Art. 5) For dunking or grasping during pregame or intermission, the foul is also charged indirectly to the head coach.
NOTE: A single flagrant technical foul or the second technical foul charged to a player results in disqualification of the offender to the team bench.
SECTION 4 BENCH TECHNICAL
Bench personnel shall not:
ART.1...Commit an unsporting foul. This includes, but is not limited to, acts or conduct such as:
a.) Disrespectfully addressing an official.
b.) Attempting to influence an official's decision.
c.) Using profane or inappropriate language or obscene gestures.
d.) Disrespectfully addressing, baiting or taunting an opponent.
NOTE: The NFHS disapproves of any form of taunting which is intended or designed to embarrass, ridicule or demean others under any circumstances including on the basis of race, religion, gender or national origin.
e.) Objecting to an official's decision by rising from the bench or using gestures.
f.) Inciting undesirable crowd reactions.
g.) Team member(s) not remaining seated on the bench unless spontaneously reacting to an outstanding play by a member of their team and immediately returning to their seats or reporting to the scorers' table.
h.) Being charged with fighting.
ART.2...Enter the court unless by permission of an official to attend an injured player.
ART.3...Use tobacco, or smokeless tobacco.
ART.4...Leave the confines of the bench during a fight.
NOTE: The head coach may enter the court only if beckoned by an official.
ART.5...The head coach is responsible for the conduct and behavior of substitutes, disqualified team members and all other bench personnel.
PENALTY: (Arts. 1, 2, 3) Two free throws plus ball for division-line throw-in. The foul is charged to the offender and also charged indirectly to the head coach. (Art. 1h) Flagrant foul, the offender is disqualified. If the offender is bench personnel, each foul is also indirectly charged to the head coach. (Art. 4) Flagrant foul, disqualification of individual offender, but only one technical-foul penalty is administered regardless of the number of offenders. This one foul is also charged indirectly to the head coach. If the head coach is an offender, an additional flagrant technical foul is also charged directly to the head coach and penalized. When a simultaneous technical foul(s) by opponents occurs, the free throws are not awarded when the penalties offset.
NOTE: A single flagrant foul or the second technical foul charged to any bench personnel, other than the head coach, results in disqualification of the offender. Adult bench personnel who have been disqualified shall go to their team's locker room or leave the building. The third technical foul, the second direct technical foul or a single flagrant foul charged to the head coach results in disqualification and ejection to the team's locker room or outside the building.
SECTION 5 COACHES' RULE
ART.1...The head coach must remain seated on the bench at all times while the clock is running or is stopped except to:
a.) Rise and stand in front of his/her seat to request a time-out or to signal his/her players to request a time-out.
b.) Confer with personnel at the scorers' table to request a 60-second time-out for a correctable error, as in 2-10.
c.) Confer with personnel at the scorers' table to request a 60-second time-out to prevent or rectify a timing or scoring mistake or an alternating-possession mistake.
d.) Replace or remove a disqualified/injured player, or player directed to leave the game, within 30 seconds when a substitute is available, while within the confines of his/her bench.
ART.2...The head coach and assistant coach)es) muyst remain seated on the bench at all times while the clock is running or is stopped except to:
a.) Confer with bench personnel and players within the confines of the bench area during a charged time-out or the intermission between quarters and extra periods.
b.) Attend an injured player when beckoned onto the court by an official.
c.) Rise in front of their seat to spontaneously react to an outstanding play by a member of their team or to acknowledge a replaced player(s), but must immediately return to their seat. (See 1-13 - coaching box)
PENALTY: (All articles) Two free throws plus ball for division-line throw-in. (Art. 1b, c) If the error is not correctable under 2-10, or if the mistake as in 5-8-4 cannot be prevented or rectified, a 60-second time-out is charged. (Arts. 1, 2) The foul is charged directly to the head coach (Art. 2). If the head coach is the offender, the foul is charged directly to him/her. The foul is charged to the offender and also charged indirectly to the head coach. (Rule 1 - 13) When the coaching box is being utilized, then the first technical foul charged directly or indirectly to the head coach results in loss of the coaching-box privileges and the coach shall comply with the provisions of Articles 1 and 2 for the remainder of the game.
NOTE: The third technical foul or the second technical foul charged directly to the head coach or a single flagrant foul results in disqualification and ejection to the team's locker room or outside the building.
