Heading: Timer: Duties

"The timer shall be provided with a game clock and a stopwatch and shall:

• Measure playing time, time-outs and intervals of play.

• Ensure that the game clock signal sounds very loudly and automatically at the end of a quarter or overtime.

• Use any means possible to notify the referees immediately if the signal fails to sound or is not heard.

• Indicate the number of fouls committed by each player by raising the player foul marker in a manner visible to both head coaches.

• Indicate that a player or a coach has been game disqualified from the game, by raising the GD marker.

• Notify a referee immediately when 5 fouls have been charged against any player.

• Operate the team foul markers, each one positioned on either side of the scorer’s table nearest to the team bench. The team foul marker shall show the current number of team fouls and shall be fully in red, with no number visible, after the ball becomes live again after the fourth team foul in a quarter.

• Effect substitutions.

• Effect time-outs. The timer must notify the referees of the time-out opportunity when a team has requested a time-out.

• Sound the signal only when the ball becomes dead and before the ball becomes live again. The sound of the timer’s signal neither stops the game clock nor the game nor causes the ball to become dead."