Southern California Rugby Referees Society

All teams will be invoiced by the Treasurer of SCRRS. Invoices will be e-mailed to the point of contact for each club (As listed with SCRFU) approximately 2 months prior to the start of the season. If there has been a change in contacts, please e-mail the SCRRS Treasurer at treasurer@scrrs.net.

All fees are due and payable once the invoice is received.

Although the Society collects a fee for its service, there may be times that a referee does not actually show up at an event (i.e., the Society does not have an available referee to assign or the assigned referee has a personal complication that precludes her/his showing up).

Checks should be made payable to “SCRRS” and mailed, along with a copy of the respective invoice, to the Society Treasurer using the following address:

Southern California Rugby Referees Society
1286 University Ave Ste 703
San Diego, CA  92103-3312

The Society Treasurer may be contact by e-mail at: treasurer@scrrs.net.

The respective fee is paid to the Society not to the individual referee. The Society has an internal policy for reimbursing referees for expenses. The individual referee or touch-judge will not be “paid” for their services.

All members of the Union are required to participate in the program. Certified Society referees will not cover any match, practice, etc. without the expectation of a fee for services.  If they do otherwise, they may be sanctioned by the Society. Any team scheduling a match or hosting a tournament not in compliance with this policy risks sanction by the Society. There is; however, no reason why each team cannot use their own team referee to officiate non-sanctioned matches, as long as that individual is certified and registered with USA Rugby R&L — the Society encourages this. However, use of current or former team members, who are active Society referees, in order to escape paying the respective fee to the Society is not acceptable.

Although not in the Union, probationary clubs or social clubs such as Lunchtime Legends and Unicorns Old Boys will be required to pay for services, at the non-league match rate, whenever a referee is requested for matches they will be hosting.

League Matches

League matches are defined as all Union scheduled matches established by the competitions committee that lead to a national championship or promotion/relegation.

In most instances, invoices will be e-mailed to the point of contact for each club approximately 2 months prior to the beginning of the respective season.

The annual fee is based on the calendar year (i.e., January 1st thru December 31st) and applies regardless of the actual league season of the respective division.

** Fee is considered “past due” and the Society may sanction team by not assigning a referee to any further of team’s home or away matches (i.e., League, Non-League, or Tournament) until the fee is paid in full.

Non-League Matches

The Society will provide service whenever and wherever possible for non-league matches for a nominal fee to partially cover the cost of travel and meals for the referee. (All league matches will continue to be serviced as part of the fees paid by the respective team to the Society.)

All non-league matches are defined as any match not on the Union schedule such as preseason matches, “friendlies” matches, visiting/touring side matches, MLR matches, round-robins, scrummages, etc.

These fees are for all non-league matches scheduled two weeks in advance. Any matches scheduled without a two weeks advance notice may be billed at double the standard rate. Host teams are reminded that failure to secure approval from the Union for visiting sides will result in no referee being assigned. The time of scheduling will be taken as the time that the game was approved by the Union.

Invoices will be sent to you, via e-mail, from the referee society treasurer at the end of each month.

The fee becomes “past due” if not paid by the last day of the second month following the match/event date (i.e., for a match/event held on July 15th the “past due” date would be September 30th).  Once the fee is “past due” the Society may sanction team by not assigning a referee to any further of team’s home or away matches (i.e., League, Non-League, or Tournament) until the fee is paid in full.