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The adoption of the local rules under Government Code section 68070 (1.1); the five judicial divisions - the Criminal Division, the Civil Division, the Family Division, the Juvenile Division, and the Appellate Division - and the assignment of supervising judges (1.2); direct calendaring, every matter heard by one judge for all purposes (1.3); reassignment upon the disqualification of a judicial officer or for other cause (1.4); and digital signatures on documents filed with the Court, with the same force and effect as a manual signature (1.5).
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Rule 1 – General Provisions 1.1 ADOPTION OF LOCAL RULES The Superior Court of California, County of Solano hereby adopts these local rules pursuant to California Government Code section 68070 and Code of Civil Procedure sections 575.1 and 575.2. Unless otherwise stated in an individual rule, the term “court” as used in these local rules shall mean the Superior Court of California, County of Solano. (Rule 1.1 amended effective January 1, 2010; adopted effective January 1, 1998.) 1.2 DIVISIONS OF THE COURT; ASSIGNMENT OF SUPERVISING JUDGES The court shall be divided into five judicial divisions: the Criminal Division, the Civil Division, the Family Division, the Juvenile Division, and the Appellate Division. The court’s Presiding Judge shall appoint the presiding judge of the Juvenile Division and the supervising judges of all other divisions. (Rule 1.2 amended effective July 1, 2014; adopted effective January 1, 1998; previously amended effective January 1, 2010.) 1.3 DIRECT CALENDARING All matters pending in the court on January 1, 1998, or filed after January 1, 1998, shall be directly calendared to be heard by one judge for all purposes. If the name of the judge is announced in open court, this announcement shall be deemed adequate and appropriate notice to the parties and attorneys present of the assignment for all purposes. (Rule 1.3 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2010; adopted as Rule 1.4 effective January 1, 1998.) 1.4 REASSIGNMENT UPON DISQUALIFICATION OF JUDICIAL OFFICER OR FOR OTHER CAUSE When a judicial officer is disqualified, either on a peremptory challenge, for cause, or by the judicial officer’s own determination, the matter shall be referred to the presiding judge for reassignment. The reassignment shall be made by the presiding judge or designee, or the supervising or presiding judge of the division, upon the delegation of that authority by the presiding judge, and shall be for all purposes. A matter reassigned to a judicial officer for any other reason shall likewise be for all purposes, unless otherwise ordered by the Presiding Judge or by the Supervising Judge of the division. (Rule 1.4 amended effective January 1, 2012; adopted as Rule 1.6 effective January 1, 1998; amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2010.) 1.5 DIGITAL SIGNATURES The use of digital signatures on documents filed with the Court is allowed, and shall have the same force and effect as the use of a manual signature, if it complies with all of the requirements of Government Code section 16.5(a)(1)-(5). No other form of electronic signatures will be accepted. A party who files a document containing a digital signature under this rule represents that the signer’s certificate or similar verification document is maintained in the party’s possession or control, and is subject to production upon request from the Court. (Rule 1.5 adopted effective January 1, 2020)
Rule 1 – General Provisions 1.1 ADOPTION OF LOCAL RULES The Superior Court of California, County of Solano hereby adopts these local rules pursuant to California Government Code section 68070 and Code of Civil Procedure sections 575.1 and 575.2. Unless otherwise stated in an individual rule, the term “court” as used in these local rules shall mean the Superior Court of California, County of Solano
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-09 (California T4 Solano build 2026-10-09) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-solano/docs/general/complete_set_of_local_rules_july_2026.pdf (the court's rule book, “Local Court Rules”, revised July 1, 2026, as fetched 2026-10-09; 7347859 bytes, sha256 f235df4f2c4c47b9c4e290445ffa2be1b5ad4302da615570c85a49e5138357e7; 350 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow) over Rules 1 to 20 (their pages between PDF pages 15 and 323), each rule composed alone from its first page to its last, in segments that start where a part's or an appendix's heading first prints: each page's running header (“Superior Court of California” and “County of Solano”, then the rule's title and the current part or appendix, kept where each first prints) and footer (the page number, the court's website address and “July 2026”) removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs; 44 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: thirteen breaks the reflow made before a wrapped “Rule N.N” citation rejoined, two form numbers broken after their hyphen rejoined, and twenty-nine heading, history note, paragraph, list, table row and address breaks it ran together set back; the short-line and vertical-gap audits find no joined break left); the scanned appendices (the standing orders printed in the appendices of Rules 5, 6 and 17, and the weapons order printed again after the forms index) left out and decided as documents - the strike report's 14 struck runs all lie on those scanned pages; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the revision history, the table of contents, the dividers and the indexes belong to no rule.
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.