diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index 5e7cb27a..fe8bab2c 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ type config struct {
 	DropTxIndex        bool          `long:"droptxindex" description:"Deletes the hash-based transaction index from the database on start up and then exits."`
 	AddrIndex          bool          `long:"addrindex" description:"Maintain a full address-based transaction index which makes the searchrawtransactions RPC available"`
 	DropAddrIndex      bool          `long:"dropaddrindex" description:"Deletes the address-based transaction index from the database on start up and then exits."`
+	RelayNonStd        bool          `long:"relaynonstd" description:"Relay non-standard transactions regardless of the default settings for the active network."`
+	RejectNonStd       bool          `long:"rejectnonstd" description:"Reject non-standard transactions regardless of the default settings for the active network."`
 	onionlookup        func(string) ([]net.IP, error)
 	lookup             func(string) ([]net.IP, error)
 	oniondial          func(string, string) (net.Conn, error)
@@ -479,6 +481,26 @@ func loadConfig() (*config, []string, error) {
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}
 
+	// Set the default policy for relaying non-standard transactions
+	// according to the default of the active network. The set
+	// configuration value takes precedence over the default value for the
+	// selected network.
+	relayNonStd := activeNetParams.RelayNonStdTxs
+	switch {
+	case cfg.RelayNonStd && cfg.RejectNonStd:
+		str := "%s: rejectnonstd and relaynonstd cannot be used " +
+			"together -- choose only one"
+		err := fmt.Errorf(str, funcName)
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, usageMessage)
+		return nil, nil, err
+	case cfg.RejectNonStd:
+		relayNonStd = false
+	case cfg.RelayNonStd:
+		relayNonStd = true
+	}
+	cfg.RelayNonStd = relayNonStd
+
 	// Append the network type to the data directory so it is "namespaced"
 	// per network.  In addition to the block database, there are other
 	// pieces of data that are saved to disk such as address manager state.
diff --git a/doc.go b/doc.go
index d01ffe7a..2ef4cba8 100644
--- a/doc.go
+++ b/doc.go
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ Application Options:
       --sigcachemaxsize=    The maximum number of entries in the signature
                             verification cache.
       --blocksonly          Do not accept transactions from remote peers.
+      --relaynonstd         Relay non-standard transactions regardless of the
+                            default settings for the active network.
+      --rejectnonstd        Reject non-standard transactions regardless of the
+                            default settings for the active network.
 
 Help Options:
   -h, --help           Show this help message
diff --git a/sample-btcd.conf b/sample-btcd.conf
index da4e4b8c..d12be44d 100644
--- a/sample-btcd.conf
+++ b/sample-btcd.conf
@@ -238,6 +238,12 @@
 ; Do not accept transactions from remote peers.
 ; blocksonly=1
 
+; Relay non-standard transactions regardless of default network settings.
+; relaynonstd=1
+
+; Reject non-standard transactions regardless of default network settings.
+; rejectnonstd=1
+
 
 ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ; Optional Transaction Indexes
diff --git a/server.go b/server.go
index f78d2a33..545d0b24 100644
--- a/server.go
+++ b/server.go
@@ -2519,7 +2519,7 @@ func newServer(listenAddrs []string, db database.DB, chainParams *chaincfg.Param
 	txC := mempool.Config{
 		Policy: mempool.Policy{
 			DisableRelayPriority: cfg.NoRelayPriority,
-			RelayNonStd:          chainParams.RelayNonStdTxs,
+			RelayNonStd:          cfg.RelayNonStd,
 			FreeTxRelayLimit:     cfg.FreeTxRelayLimit,
 			MaxOrphanTxs:         cfg.MaxOrphanTxs,
 			MaxOrphanTxSize:      defaultMaxOrphanTxSize,