NCWHL  Fees  &  Scheduling

Policies

Graphic of a calendar.    Scheduling Policies

    In order to remain flexible with officiating and playing schedules for NCWHL and other leagues, Availability Requests will be due mid-month for the following month's games. 

    Every effort will be made to have the schedule completed by the 20th of the month.    This is to avoid possible officiating conflicts.

    Confirmation of offered games should be made within 72 hours, preferably via e-mail. 

    Any game offered, but not confirmed within 72 hours may be offered to another official.

    Once a game is confirmed, the official is responsible to fulfill his/her commitment.  Please do not request games and then reject them when offered.  While emergencies do occasionally arise, habitual tardiness, "late notice" cancellations, and missed games inconvenience your partner, the teams, and the league, and will not be tolerated.  

    If you have questions about these policies, contact Joanne "jj" Nakaso, joannenakaso@earthlink.net

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Graphic of cash.    Fees

Game fee  $45 per official for two-official system
$67.50 if only one official (Notes 1, 2)
Premium Pay An additional $5 per official for games starting after 10:00 pm
Cancelled Games Full game fee if official has received less than 24 hours notice of cancellation.

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Picture of a whistle.    Fines

Missed Game
Missed Game (1st occurrence) Game fee
Missed Game (2nd occurrence) Double game fee (Note 3)
Leaving early (except for injury or emergency) Forfeit game fee

Late for Game - Late is after puck drop for each period
Late for game (no replacement) 1/3 game fee for every period late
Late for game (replacement on ice) (Note 4) Replacement finishes game and is paid for the periods worked

Cancellation of Assignments (except for injury or emergency)
After requesting and up to 72 hours of accepting assignment.  This includes refusing games you have previously requested.  

Exception: if you are offered games after the initial assignments, there will not be a fine for non-acceptance.

 $5 per game (effective 1/1/04)
72 hours or less before game time Amount equal to game fee (Notes 5, 6). $5 fine per game will apply only in cases of emergency; otherwise fine is equal to game fee.

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Notes:
1.    Games are normally scheduled with 2 officials; a "solo" game is extremely rare, and would only occur if an official if two officials are not available for the game.

2.    NCWHL does not use the three- and four- officials systems.

3.    After the second occurrence missing games within three months, an official may not be asked to officiate NCWHL games again, and may also forfeit games already scheduled.

4.    If a replacement is found for multiple games, the late official forfeits all game fees.

5.    There is no fine for canceling within 72 hours of the scheduled game IF the game assignment was accepted within 72 hours of the game.

6.    After the fourth occurrence of "short notice" cancellation or tardiness  -FOR ANY REASON-  within three months, an official may not be asked to officiate NCWHL games again, and may also forfeit games already scheduled.

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January 3, 2004