Cal. Rules of Court, rule 10.851 · Chapter 10. Trial Court Records Management
Court indexes-automated maintenance
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Authorized media
The clerk of each trial court may create, maintain, update, and make accessible the indexes required by law by photographic, microphotographic, photocopy, mechanical, magnetic, or electronic means. The clerk must make provision for preserving the information on a medium that will ensure its permanence and protect it from loss or damage arising from electronic failure or mechanical defect.
(b) Alphabetic index
A single alphabetic index may be maintained so long as the plaintiff-defendant distinction is retained.
(c) Public access
The indexes maintained under automated procedures must be accessible for public examination and use.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
(Subd (a) amended effective January 1, 2007; adopted as unlettered subd; previously relettered and amended effective January 1, 2001.)
(Subd (b) adopted effective January 1, 2001.)
(Subd (c) amended effective January 1, 2007; adopted as part of unlettered subd; previously lettered and amended effective January 1, 2001.)
Rule 10.851 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1010 effective January 1, 1975; renumbered as rule 999 effective January 1, 2003; amended and renumbered as rule 6.751 effective January 1, 2001.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/ten/rule10_851
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