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Chapter Nine (Rules 900 to 904): the direct calendar system, cases assigned to one department for all purposes (Rule 900); the weekly schedule of judicial assignments and the next day's calendar posted by 4:00 p.m. every court day (Rule 901); after-hours duty judicial officers (Rule 902); protective and child custody orders - checking for prior orders, coexisting orders and modification (Rule 903); and judicial assistance (Rule 904).
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Chapter Nine: Court Calendars & Distribution of Cases 900 Direct Calendar System The Court maintains a direct calendar system with cases generally assigned to one department for all purposes including trial. The Presiding Judge or Assistant Presiding Judge may assign and re-assign cases to other departments. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 01-01-99) 901 Schedules The Clerk shall post in a prominent public location at each division by 4:00 p.m. every court day, a copy of the weekly schedule of judicial assignments and a copy of the daily calendar the hearings and trials scheduled for the following court day , excluding the name and other identifying information regarding juvenile or other confidential acti ons except as may otherwise be provided by law. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 01-01-99) 902 “After Hours Duty” Judicial Officers The Court shall establish a schedule of judicial officers to be available to consider and to make necessary court orders after regular business hours for the review and setting of bail, issuance of search warrants, and emergency juvenile, domestic violence and other protective orders. The Court has established a system of telephonic or other contact with such “after-hours duty judicial officers ,” and shall provide such information to law enforcement agencies and child protective service agencies on a confidential basis. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 01-01-99) 903 Issuance Of Protective And Child Custody Orders a. [Communication and Coordination] All judicial officers shall, prior to issuance of criminal protective orders or orders involving child custody or visitation, make reasonable efforts to determine the existence and terms of any prior orders that may have been issued as to any party to the action pursuant to Penal Code section 136.2(i) (1) and (2) and CRC 5.450. b. [Coexistence of Orders; Conditions] A family or juvenile court order may coexist with a criminal protective order; orders permitting contact between the restrained person and his or her children shall provide for safe exchange of the children, and shall not contain language that violates a "no contact" order issued in a criminal case ; further, that the family or juvenile court order specifies the time, day, place and manner of transfer of the child, as provided by Family Code section 3100. c. [Modification of Orders] Any judicial officer to whom a criminal case has been assigned and in which case a criminal protective order has been issued, may, after consultation with the judicial officer assigned to a family or juvenile case where a subsequent child custody or visitation order has been issued involving the same parties, modify the criminal protective order to allow or restrict contact between the person restrained and his or her children. d. ["After Hours" Emergency Protective Orders] Upon application for an emergency protective order by law enforcement or child welfare personnel, and prior to issuing such order, "after hours" duty officers shall inquire of the applying law enforcement or child welfare officer to confirm completion of the required Judicial Council application form for such orders, particularly including information as to such officer's knowledge of the fact and terms of any existing protective or custody orders. The “after hours duty judicial officers” may require further inquiry of the person or persons to be protected concerning the existence and terms of any prior court orders. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted effective 01-01-04) 904 Judicial Assistance a. [Requests for Assistance] All requests for judicial assistance required by any judicial officer, whether for reasons of judicial absence , disqualification or recusal, or for calendar conflicts or workload, shall be made to the Presiding Judge or Assistant Presiding Judge. b. [Sources for Assistance] In determining the need and the appropriate source for obtaining judicial assistance, available sources will be considered in the following order: first, judicial resources of the division where the need arises; second, judicial resources within other divisions located in the same geographic region; and, third, judicial resources in the other geographic region. c. [Considerations] In determining sources for judicial assistance, convenience and potential travel requirements for parties, counsel and jurors shall be considered. d. [Judicial Council Assistance] Requests for judicial assistance from the Judicial Council Assigned Judges Program shall be made only on approval of the Presiding Judge or Assistant Presiding Judge. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; Former Rule 903; re-numbered effective 01-01-04; previously amended effective 01-01-99)
Chapter Nine: Court Calendars & Distribution of Cases 900 Direct Calendar System The Court maintains a direct calendar system with cases generally assigned to one department for all purposes including trial. The Presiding Judge or Assistant Presiding Judge may assign and re-assign cases to other departments. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 01-01-99) 901 Schedules
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: Published as printed: Rule 901 “the following court day ,” and “confidential acti ons”.
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.