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(a) 3. The Tee Ball division is an extension of the local league to accommodate participants league ages 5-8 and may utilize the batting tee or the pitched ball (by a coach). The league may opt to deliver a designated number of pitches to all batters and then utilize the tee if necessary.

b. Officers shall be elected by the Board (i.e., president, one or more vice presidents, secretary, … A president may manage, coach or umpire provided he/she does not serve on the Protest Committee nor serve as tournament team manager or coach. The president will not serve in the capacity of District Administrator.

President, with approval of the Board of Directors, shall appoint managers, coaches and umpires annually. Manager/coach representation on the Board shall not exceed a minority. NOTE: All members of the local league Board of Directors, as well as managers and coaches, whose activities in another youth baseball/softball program are deemed detrimental to the operation of the local league, can be removed by a majority vote of the Board of Directors. Additionally, the local league’s Board of Directors has the right to NOT approve that individual as a tournament team manager.

c. Each league shall:

1. prepare, adopt…

2. be considered…

3. apply for and, if …

4. have separate boundaries as provided for in Regulation II. (Delete the remainder of paragraph 4.)

9. Conduct an annual background check on all personnel that are required to complete a "Little League Volunteer Application" prior to the applicant assuming his/her duties for the current season. No local league shall permit any person to participate in any manner, whose background check reveals a conviction or guilty plea for any crime involving or against a minor. A local league may prohibit any individual from participating as a volunteer or hired worker, if the league deems the individual unfit to work with minors.

A local league must conduct a nationwide search that contains the applicable government sex offender registry data.

f. Mergers where there is sufficient enrollment to maintain separate charters, shall

require the recommendation of the District Administrator to Little League

International and be subject to final approval by the Charter Committee. (Removed the reference to the 20,000 population limit.)

NOTE 3: Any request for newly chartered leagues will be reviewed by the Charter Committee under this regulation before a charter is granted. The decision of the Charter Committee is final and binding.

(h) Deleted in its entirety.

(g) Player roster forms supplied by Little League Headquarters must be completed and filed no later than June 7, 2008. Players claimed under…

(h) If a person had previously resided within the league boundaries for two or more years while serving that league as a dedicated manager, coach or member of the

Local League Board of Directors for two or more years, his or her sons and/or daughters are eligible to try out and be selected by teams in that league (1) provided such service to the league from which the person has moved has continued, (2) subject to written agreement from the league within whose boundaries they currently reside and (3) and approved by the District Administrator.

(a) Any player on a regular season team may pitch. (NOTE: There is no limit to the number of pitchers a team may use in a game.)

(c) The manager must remove the pitcher when said pitcher reaches the limit for his/her age group as noted below, but the pitcher may remain in the game at another position:

League Age 17-18 105 pitches per day

13-16 95 pitches per day

11-12 85 pitches per day

9-10 75 pitches per day

7-8 50 pitches per day

Exception: If a pitcher reaches the limit imposed in Regulation VI (c) for his/her league age while facing a batter, the pitcher may continue to pitch until any one of the following conditions occurs: 1. That batter reaches base; 2. That batter is put out; 3. The third out is made to complete the half-inning. NOTE: A pitcher who delivers one or more pitches in a game cannot play the position of catcher for the remainder of that day.

(d) Pitchers league age 16 and under must adhere to the following rest requirements:

• If a player pitches 61 or more pitches in a day, three (3) calendar days of rest, and a game (see e. below), must be observed.

• If a player pitches 41 - 60 pitches in a day, two (2) calendar days of rest, and a game (see e. below), must be observed.

• If a player pitches 21 - 40 pitches in a day, one (1) calendar days of rest must be observed.

• If a player pitches 1-20 pitches in a day, no (0) calendar day of rest is required.

Pitchers league age 17-18 must adhere to the following rest requirements:

• If a player pitches 76 or more pitches in a day, three (3) calendar days of rest, and a game (see e. below), must be observed.

• If a player pitches 51 - 75 pitches in a day, two (2) calendar days of rest, and a game (see e. below), must be observed.

• If a player pitches 26 - 50 pitches in a day, one (1) calendar days of rest must be observed.

• If a player pitches 1-25 pitches in a day, no (0) calendar day of rest must is required.

(e) A player may not pitch in consecutive games. Exception – League Age 16 and under - A player may pitch in consecutive games if 40 or less pitches were delivered in the previous game. League Age 17-18 - A player may pitch in consecutive games if 50 or less pitches were delivered in the previous game.

(f) Each league must designate the scorekeeper or another game official as the official pitch count recorder.

(g) The pitch count recorder must provide the current pitch count for any pitcher when requested by either manager or any umpire. However, the manager is responsible for knowing when his/her pitcher must be removed.

(h) The official pitch count recorder should inform the umpire-in-chief when a pitcher has delivered his/her maximum limit of pitches for the game, as noted in Regulation VI (c). The umpire-in-chief will inform the pitcher’s manager that the pitcher must be removed in accordance with Regulation VI (c). However, the failure by the pitch count recorder to notify the umpire-in-chief, and/or the failure of the umpire-in-chief to notify the manager, does not relieve the manager of his/her responsibility to remove a pitcher when that pitcher is no longer eligible.

(i) Violation of any section of this regulation can result in protest of the game in which it occurs. Protest shall be made in accordance with Playing Rule 4.19.

(j) A player who has attained the league age of twelve (12) is not eligible to pitch in the Minor League. (See Regulation V – Selection of Players)

(k) A player may not pitch in more than one game in a day. (Exception: In the Big League Division, a player may be used as a pitcher in up to two games in a day.)

1. The withdrawal of an ineligible pitcher after that pitcher is announced, or after a warm-up pitch is delivered, but before that player has pitched a ball to a batter, shall not be considered a violation. Little League officials are urged to take precautions to prevent protests. When a protest situation is imminent, the potential offender should be notified immediately.

2. Pitches delivered in games declared "Regulation Tie Games" or "Suspended Games" shall be charged against pitcher’s eligibility.

3. In suspended games resumed on another day, the pitchers of record at the time the game was halted may continue to pitch to the extent of their eligibility for that day, provided said pitcher has observed the required days of rest.

NOTE: The use of this regulation negates the concept of the "calendar week" with regard to pitching eligibility.

An INNING is that portion…the preceding inning. (Minor League Only – A five-run limit is to be imposed, which would complete the half inning.)

(c) A pitcher remaining in the game, but moving to a different position, can return as a pitcher any time in the remainder of the game, but only once per game.