NFHS Rules Book

RULE 1 – COURT AND EQUIPMENT

  • Center Restraining Circle
  • Shadow Line
  • Rectangular Backboard Padding Specifications
  • Game Ball
  • Team Bench Location
  • Coaching Box Location
  • Music/Noise/Sound Restrictions

 

RULE 2 OFFICIALS AND THEIR DUTIES

  • Video Replay Monitor
  • Jurisdiction
  • Supplementary Equipment
  • Game-Time Notification
  • Coaches Verification of Proper Uniforms/Equipment
  • Concurrent Jurisdiction
  • Signal for Point(s)
  • Unsporting Behavior
  • Disqualification Procedure
  • Concussion Management
  • Correctable Errors
  • Scorer’s Signal
  • Referee’s Decision
  • Scorer’s Mistake
  • Scorebook
  • Warning Signal
  • Signal Not Heard

 

RULE 3 PLAYERS, SUBSTITUTES AND EQUIPMENT

  • Number of Players Required
  • Rosters, Starters and Numbers
  • Substitutions
  • Illegal Entry
  • Directed to Leave Game – Jersey
  • Injury
  • Bleeding Player
  • Uniforms
  • Player Equipment
  • Uniforms – Logo

 

RULE 4 DEFINITIONS

  • Airborne Shooter
  • Control – For Alternating Possession
  • Backcourt – Frontcourt – Ball Location
  • Ball Touches and Official
  • Team Fouls to Reach Bonus
  • Player and/or Team Control
  • Disqualification
  • Dribble – Legal and Illegal Movement
  • Fighting
  • Intentional Foul
  • Technical Foul
  • Player-Control Foul
  • Team-Control Foul
  • Double Fouls
  • False Double Foul
  • Multiple Foul
  • False Multiple Foul
  • Fight Adds to Team Fouls
  • Dead-Ball Live-Ball Fouls
  • Guarding Position
  • Held Ball
  • Kicking the Ball
  • Pivot
  • Players/Bench Personnel/ Substitutes
  • Player Location
  • Rebounding Contact
  • Screen
  • Act of Shooting, Try
  • Throw-in
  • Traveling – or Not
  • Warning for Misconduct

 

RULE 5 SCORING AND TIMING REGULATIONS

  • From Floor to Basket
  • Three-Point Try
  • Not a Try or Tap for Goal
  • Jumpers Facing Wrong Direction
  • Crediting Points
  • Three-Tenths of a Second or Less on Clock
  • Forfeiture
  • Ending a Quarter or Extra Period
  • Overtime – Or Not
  • Length of Extra Period Incorrect
  • Overtime Continues
  • Time-out Requests
  • Error-Not Correctable
  • Clock Starts on Touching
  • Timing Mistakes and Corrections
  • Time-outs Remaining
  • State Associations Reducing the Number of Charged Time-outs
  • Shortened Time-out
  • Time-out Requests/Starting Game or Extra Period
  • Successive Time-outs

 

RULE 6 LIVE BALL AND DEAD BALL

  • Live Ball
  • Jump-Ball Administration
  • Technical Before Period Starts
  • Arrow Not Reversed
  • Jump Ball to Start the Game
  • Arrow Mistake
  • Setting and Reversing the Arrow
  • Simultaneous Violation
  • Ball Lodges
  • Loss of Arrow
  • Held Ball on Throw-in – No Arrow Change
  • Putting the Ball in Play
  • Dead Ball Situations
  • Continuous Motion
  • Dead Ball – Live Ball

 

RULE 7 OUT OF BOUNDS AND THE THROW-IN

  • Player Out of Bounds
  • Ball Over Backboard
  • Out-of-Bounds Situations
  • Violation – Throw-in Spot
  • Throw-in Delay Following Time-out
  • Determining Throw-in Spot
  • Inadvertent Whistle
  • Designated Spot
  • Throw-in Spots
  • Backboard Supports
  • Throw-in Plane
  • Positions Parallel to End Line
  • Throw-in by Wrong Team by Mistake

 

RULE 8 FREE THROW

  • Placing at Disposal
  • Delay – Team Warning
  • Lane Space Regulations
  • Designated Free Thrower
  • Officials Provide Erroneous Information
  • Putting the Ball in Play

 

RULE 9 VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES

  • Free-Thrower Loses Ball
  • Free Throw Delay Following a Time-out
  • Defense and Offense in Opposite Spaces
  • Faking
  • Opponents Distract
  • Lane Space Regulations
  • Designated Spot Throw-in
  • Throw-in Violations
  • Boundary-Plane Infraction
  • Player Out of Bounds – Leaving the Court
  • Through the Basket from Below
  • Dribble Rule
  • Three-Second Rule
  • Ten-Second Rule
  • Frontcourt – Backcourt
  • Frontcourt Closely-Guarded Action
  • Screening Teammates
  • Basket Interference
  • Goaltending
  • Swinging Arm(s) or Elbow(s)

 

RULE 10 FOULS AND PENALTIES

  • Team Technicals
  • Six in Game
  • Excess Time-out
  • A Specific Unsporting Act
  • Delaying Return Following Time-out
  • Not Reporting – Not Being Beckoned
  • Blood – Uniform Jersey Change(s)
  • Delay Returning to Court
  • Dunking and Grasping
  • Contacting the Backboard
  • Delay by Free Thrower
  • Unsporting Fouls
  • Technical Foul Contact
  • Throw-in Fouls
  • Ejection
  • Bench Technicals
  • Withhold Whistle
  • Standing Bench Personnel
  • Entering Court During Fight
  • Simultaneous Technicals by Opponents
  • Bench Conduct Situations
  • Replacement of a Disqualified or Injured Player
  • Unauthorized Leaving of the Bench Area/Playing Court
  • Contact

 

PRE-RULE CONTENT

  • Foreword
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

 

POST-RULE CONTENT

  • Foreword
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

 

MISSION STATEMENT

  • Foreword
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

 

MANAGEMENT OF CONCUSSION

  • Foreword
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

 

EQUIPMENT

  • Foreword
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

 

HYGIENE AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

  • Foreword
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

 

CODE OF ETHICS

  • Foreword
  • Part 1
  • Part 2