FIVB/USAV rules apply except for the following items:
(note - a rule book will be available at the courts for people to look at)

All leagues:

• games will be presided over by a single referee so no separate official scorekeeping will be done (therefore there are no special equipment rules, i.e. no special jerseys or numbers on jerseys)

• 3 games per night - 27 point cap in all games

• unlimited substitutions are allowed, no rules on who can be subs

• We periodically have situations where a team (teams) do not take the court when it is time to start a game. Keep in mind that teams can start as long as they have at least 2 players. In order to keep matches more on time and penalize teams causing the problem, the following penalty points procedure is in effect.
  - when the referee calls for teams to line up (at the completion of the warmup or between games) and teams do not line up in a timely manner (they can request the use of one or both of their 30 second timeouts to delay the start), then the referee announces that the game is in the penalty points stage.
  -for each minute after that where a team (teams) is not on the court ready to play, the opposing team will be awarded 4 points; this will continue for each minute until the penalized team takes the court and is ready to play (if the time reaches 7 minutes, the team which has been ready is awarded a 25-0 win…this continues for each subsequent game if needed - after allowing up to the 3 minute interval authorized between games, if so desired). An example is if team A delays the start and is assessed 3 minutes of penalty points, they start the game out with a score of 0 points and team B starts with 12 points.
  -when the penalized team takes the court and is ready to play, the referee will circle the entire set of penalty points awarded to their opponents for that game (as an indicator that penalty points were given) and then start the game.

Co-ed:

• cannot have more men than women on the court except when a team unexpectedly ends up with uneven numbers; then, if the opposing team captain approves, this rule will be waived. In this situation the team captain must write an explanation on the back of the referee’s score sheet before play starts explaining what they know about why the person(s) is missing
  Note: regular USAV co-ed rules require 6 players, with alternating male/female players. There is no allowance for less than 6 players. Because we are not in strict USAV competition though, we are trying to accommodate for some unexpected situations in our league without penalizing players. We are trying to allow for less than 6 and still trying to have the teams respect the USAV and league rules. If teams try to take advantage of this league allowance then we can go back to strict rules and teams will forfeit games if they do not have 3 males and 3 females available to play or we can use the "ghost" rule.

• we have dropped the female hit rule.

4’s:

• no playing the ball into the opponents court with an overhand pass. We feel this is frequently too difficult to call if it's perpendicular to the shoulders or not so we are not allowing it at all.

• we will play the indoor rule instead of the outdoor 4’s rule about touching the opponents court (beyond the center line); the foot/feet must be on/above the centerline. However, any body part above the feet may cross the centerline and touch the opponent's court provided this does not interfere with play.