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Chapter Five (Rules 500 to 504): the fees and service charges schedule, which has the force of a rule of court once adopted and authorized (Rule 500, CRC 10.815); payment by personal check, cashier's check, draft, money order or credit card, and returned checks (Rule 501); fine deferment and payment plans on a completed application with a nominal fee (Rule 502); collections contracts (Rule 503); and interest on trust funds (Rule 504).
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Chapter Five: Court Budgets, Finance & Fiscal Services 500 Fees & Service Charges Schedule The Executive Officer shall recommend, prepare for approval by the judges , and for review and authorization of the Judicial Council, a schedule of all fees charged by the Court and by the Clerk, to litigants and to the general public for filing documents and provision of other Court services. Upon adoption by the judges and upon authorization of the Judicial Council pursuant to CRC 10.815, the approved Schedule of Court Services, Filing Fees and Charges, and all instructions or information contained therein, shall be published and maintained for public inspection and shall have the full force and effect of a Rule of Court, except as may otherwise be prescribed by statute, the CRC , or otherwise by these local rules. (Amended effective 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 01-01-99) 501 Payment Methods for Fees, Charges, Fines & Bail a. Personal checks, bank cashier’s checks, drafts or money orders will be accepted by the Court in payment of any fee, service charge, fine or bail deposit if tendered in the appropriate manner and amount as defined in the Cash Handling Section of the Trial Court Financial Policies and Procedures Manual (Procedure No. FIN 10.02, section 6.3.3). If a check is returned for non-sufficient funds or “account closed,” the payor must reimburse the Court with cash, or cashier’s check plus a service fee for the actual cost as determined by consultation between the Court Administrator and the County Auditor’s Office. 2. Credit cards will be accepted by the Court in payment of any fee, service charge, fine or bail deposit if tendered in the appropriate manner and amount as defined in the Cash Handling Section of the Trial Court Financial Policies and Procedures Manual (Procedure No. FIN 10.02, section 6.3.4). (Amended effective 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 01-01-02) 502 Fine Payment Plans The Court will not accept deferred or partial payments on fines unless a deferred fine payment or a financial payment plan is first approved, or as may otherwise be ordered by a judicial officer. To establish a fine deferment, for one future payment of the entire fine, or a financial payment plan for multiple future payments, the defendant must submit a completed application, along with a nominal fee for the cost of account administration, to the fiscal unit of the Clerk’s office in the division where the case is calendared. Incomplete applications will not be accepted. Court approval of deferment or installment payment plans will include specified due dates and minimum amounts for payments, as determined by the Court at the time of the application is filed. (Amended effective 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 01-01-99) 503 Court Collections Contract(s) The Court has entered into contract(s) with private debt collections firm(s), for the purpose of collecting certain delinquent accounts. Court accounts may be referred for collection under such contract(s) and collections will be made and remitted to the Court, pursuant to the terms of the contract(s). (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 01-01-99) 504 Trust Funds Interest All interest earned on Court funds, and on funds deposited by the Court in fiduciary trust for other persons or entities, shall be paid promptly into the fund which contains the principal on which the interest accrued in accordance with Government Code section 53647(b), and to the extent not otherwise specifically provided by the CRC, or specific rule or formal order of the Court. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 01-01-99)
Chapter Five: Court Budgets, Finance & Fiscal Services 500 Fees & Service Charges Schedule The Executive Officer shall recommend, prepare for approval by the judges , and for review and authorization of the Judicial Council, a schedule of all fees charged by the Court and by the Clerk, to litigants and to the general public for filing documents and provision of other Court services. Upon adoption
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Santa Barbara build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-santa-barbara/pages/forms-filing__local-rules.html (the court's Local Rules page, “Current Local Rules / Effective January 1, 2025”, as fetched 2026-10-07; 894893 bytes, sha256 1059f4db3448c727e841119aa4222d3065d08c4da61c2ab925230763ca01031a) with html-compose.py (the Orange composer) over the page's content sections, after build/ol_markers.py wrote into each ordered-list item the label the browser draws (the page sets the rules' subdivisions as HTML ordered lists, whose labels are not in its text: 327 labels - 192 decimal, 80 lower-alpha, 31 lower-roman and 24 upper-alpha - the counts the browser computed on the live page); the page's opening lines (its heading, effective date, note and links) and its closing Appendices list belong to no chapter; the rule body cut at the chapter headings. Proofs: the composer's (the multiset of non-space characters equals the sections' text less chrome), the labels are the only characters added, the labels match the browser's counts, and the cut reassembles the rule body. The page's “PDF version” link serves a book marked effective January 1, 2027 that carries rules still proposed for comment; it is held with its receipt and a review task, and the page is the source. Review note: The page sets Rule 501's two items in separate lists, so the browser draws them “a.” and “2.”; the card publishes the labels as the page renders them.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.