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Chapter 1 (Rules 1.01 to 1.06): the rules cited as the “Local Rules of the Siskiyou County Superior Court” (1.01); the rules take effect on July 1, 2026 (1.02); on their respective effective dates the rules, as amended, supersede all Local Rules previously adopted (1.03); the rules construed and applied so as to avoid conflict with the laws of the State of California or the California Rules of Court and liberally construed to facilitate and promote the administration of justice, not applied to actions or proceedings in the Small Claims Division unless the text of a specific Rule indicates otherwise, and applied to any person appearing on his or her own behalf, without a lawyer, as well as to attorneys - the Executive Officer the official publisher, a copy to the County Law Library, copies maintained for public inspection in the offices of the Clerk, available for sale for a reasonable fee and on the Court’s website (1.04); the definitions of Rule 1.6 of the California Rules of Court apply, with the rules’ own definitions of person, affidavit, declaration, gender, Court, judgment, in propria persona, in pro per, unrepresented party, self-represented party, civil, probate and family law (1.05); and the rules amended or repealed, and new Rules added, by a majority vote of the judges (1.06).
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CHAPTER 1: GENERAL RULES 1.01 Citation of Rules These Rules are to be cited as the “Local Rules of the Siskiyou County Superior Court.” Rule 1.01 renumbered effective July 1, 2024; adopted as Rule 1:01 effective January 1, 1997; amended effective January 1, 2003. 1.02 Effective Date of Rules These rules shall take effect on July 1, 2026. Rule 1.02 amended effective January 1, 2026; adopted as Rule 1:02 January 1, 1997; previously amended effective July 1, 2014, January 1, 2019, January 1, 2022, July 1, 2023, July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026; amended and renumbered effective July 1, 2024. 1.03 Effect of Rules On their respective effective dates these Rules, as amended, will supersede all Local Rules previously adopted. Rule 1.03 amended and renumbered effective July 1, 2024; adopted as Rule 1:03 effective January 1, 1997; amended effective July 1, 2010. 1.04 Construction and Application of Rules; Publisher of Rules These Rules will be construed and applied in such a manner so as to avoid conflict with the laws of the State of California or the California Rules of Court and will be liberally construed in order to facilitate and promote the administration of justice by the Superior Court. These Rules do not apply to actions or proceedings in the Small Claims Division unless the text of a specific Rule indicates otherwise. These Rules apply to any person appearing before the Court on his or her own behalf, without a lawyer, as well as to attorneys. The Executive Officer of the Superior Court is the official publisher of these Rules and will provide a copy of the Rules to the County Law Library. In addition, copies will be maintained for public inspection in the offices of the Clerk of the Court. The publisher will make copies of the Rules available for sale to the public for a reasonable fee and also make these Rules available for viewing or downloading on the Court’s website (https://www.siskiyou.courts.ca.gov/general-information/local-rules-standing-orders . Rule1.04 amended and renumbered effective July 1, 2024; adopted as Rule 1:04 January 1, 1997; amended effective July 1, 2010. 1.05 Definitions of Words Used in these Rules The definitions set forth in Rule 1.6 of the California Rules of Court apply to these Rules with equal force and for all purposes, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires. The word "person" includes and applies to corporations, firms, associations, and all other entities, as well as to natural persons. The word "affidavit" includes and applies to a declaration; and the word "declaration" includes and applies to an affidavit. The use of the masculine, feminine, or neuter gender includes the others. The word "Court" means the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Siskiyou; and it includes any judge, commissioner or judicial officer or temporary judge appointed or elected to the Court, and any judge duly assigned thereto. The word "judgment" includes and applies to any judgment, order, or decree from which an appeal lies. The terms "in propria persona", "in pro per", “unrepresented party”, or “self-represented party” all mean a person appearing without a lawyer. The word “civil” means all matters of a general civil nature and all matters that are special proceedings under the California Code of Civil Procedure; the word “probate” means all matters brought under the California Probate Code regardless of whether a decedent’s estate is the subject of the action; and the phrase “family law” applies to all matters brought under the California Family Code. Rule 1.05 amended and renumbered effective July 1, 2024; previously adopted as Rule 1:05 effective January 1, 1997; amended effective January 1, 2007, and January 1, 2019. 1.06 Amendment or Addition to, or Repeal of, Local Rules of Court These Rules may be amended or repealed, and new Rules may be added, by a majority vote of the judges of the Siskiyou County Superior Court. Rule 1.06 amended and renumbered effective July 1, 2024; adopted as Rule 1:06 effective January 1, 1997; amended effective January 1, 2001.
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL RULES 1.01 Citation of Rules These Rules are to be cited as the “Local Rules of the Siskiyou County Superior Court.” Rule 1.01 renumbered effective July 1, 2024; adopted as Rule 1:01 effective January 1, 1997; amended effective January 1, 2003. 1.02 Effective Date of Rules These rules shall take effect on July 1, 2026. Rule 1.02 amended effective January 1, 2026; adopted as Rule
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-12 (California T4 Siskiyou build 2026-10-12) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-siskiyou/docs/local-rules/2026-final-local-rules-court.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SISKIYOU LOCAL RULES OF COURT EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2026”, as fetched 2026-10-12; 1504869 bytes, sha256 9e07c0764cd81357bc6f3c7cafe81cd348e139ae21ffb9a44495632e4ac89471; 160 pages; this part PDF pages 10 to 11, printed pages 1-1 to 1-2) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): the rules (PDF pages 10 to 132, Chapters 1 to 11) and Appendix 1, the Rules for Decorum in the Courtroom that Rule 2.05 makes binding (PDF pages 134 to 137), composed as one text - the appendices' divider page (PDF page 133) left out - and cut at the eleven chapter headings and at Appendix 1's heading, each matched once at a line start (every part opens a page); chrome removed (520 lines): the running header in each page's top band (“LOCAL RULES OF THE SISKIYOU COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT”) and the footer in its bottom band (“Siskiyou County Superior Court Local Rules”, the page label “N-M” or “Appendix 1, page N of 4”, the date the page was revised or replaced, and a stray letter “a” printed into the footer on twenty pages of Chapters 3 and 4), with the footer's date box set high on PDF page 11 and a lone period below Chapter 3's last rule on PDF page 35 named as running lines (review/render/p11-stray-date-box-2026-10-12.png, p35-stray-marks-2026-10-12.png); the object replacement character (U+FFFC) of two headings - Rules 4.03 and 6.12, where every other heading has a tab - read as the space it stands for (review/render/object-replacement-headings-2026-10-12.png); lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule's number set with its title (“2.02 Official Court Reporters”), each subdivision starting a line and each history line (“Rule 2.02 renumbered effective July 1, 2024; ...”) on its own line; no table on the composed pages; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-12.txt) finds struck text only on PDF page 150 (Appendix 6, a form of accounts, outside the composed pages); 8 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Chapter 4's two-line heading set as one line; five false breaks rejoined - in Rules 3.03, 5.11, 5.12, Rule 7.03's history line and Rule 9.07(F)(2)'s inline list; Rule 2.02(B)'s “FW-020” closed up across its printed line end; Rule 9.06(A)(2)'s two-line signature format set apart as printed); the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, fragment and row audits (custody file book_extra_audits.py; review/book-extra-audits-2026-10-12.txt and review/book-audits-after-fixes-2026-10-12.txt) list candidates read one by one (build/book_fixes.py) - the rest kept as printed (Rule 3.05's number printed “3:05”; “FL- 350” in Rule 8.08); proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover (PDF page 1), the publisher's notes (PDF pages 2 to 4), the table of contents and the list of effective dates (PDF pages 5 to 9), the appendices' divider (PDF page 133), Appendix 2 (the court employees' code of ethics, PDF pages 138 to 142), the forms of Appendices 3 to 8 (PDF pages 143 to 153) and the indexes (PDF pages 154 to 160) belong to no card.
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.