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Chapter 1 (Rules 1.0 to 1.3): the rules known as the Local Rules of the Superior Court of California, County of Sutter, cited as SCLR followed by the appropriate number, effective on July 1, 2013 (1.0); the Local Rules construed and applied so as to avoid conflict with the California Rules of Court and liberally construed to serve the efficient administration of justice, the California Rules of Court incorporated within them and supplemented by them (1.1); the definitions of Clerk, County, Court, CCP and CRC (1.2); sanctions under CCP § 575.2 for failure to comply with any provision of the Local Rules (1.3).
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CHAPTER 1 – PRELIMINARY RULES 1.0 NAME, CITATION, AND EFFECTIVE DATE These rules shall be known as the Local Rules of the Superior Court of California, County of Sutter, referred to herein as Sutter County Superior Court. The rules may be cited as SCLR, followed by the appropriate number. These rules become effective on July 1, 2013. (Effective 7/01/13) 1.1 CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF RULES The Local Rules shall be construed and applied in such a manner as to avoid conflict with the California Rules of Court, and shall be liberally construed to serve the efficient administration of justice in Sutter County Superior Court. The California Rules of Court are not printed as part of the Sutter County Superior Court Local Rules, but are incorporated within them. Proceedings in the Sutter County Superior Court are governed by the California Rules of Court as supplemented by these Local Rules, and shall be read in conjunction with them. (Effective 7/01/13) 1.2 DEFINITIONS Unless otherwise indicated herein, the following shall have the meanings designated below: Clerk | Clerk of the Superior Court, County of Sutter County | County of Sutter Court | Superior Court of California, County of Sutter CCP | California Code of Civil Procedure CRC | California Rules of Court (Effective 7/01/13) 1.3 SANCTIONS Failure to comply with any provision of the Local Rules may result in the imposition of sanctions pursuant to CCP § 575.2. (Effective 7/01/13)
CHAPTER 1 – PRELIMINARY RULES 1.0 NAME, CITATION, AND EFFECTIVE DATE These rules shall be known as the Local Rules of the Superior Court of California, County of Sutter, referred to herein as Sutter County Superior Court. The rules may be cited as SCLR, followed by the appropriate number. These rules become effective on July 1, 2013. (Effective 7/01/13) 1.1 CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF RULES Th
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-11 (California T4 Sutter build 2026-10-11) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-sutter/docs/pdfs/LocalRules/Local Rules Amended 7-1-2018.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “SUTTER COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT”, “LOCAL COURT RULES”, “EFFECTIVE July 1, 2013”, “AMENDED January 1, 2017; July 1, 2017; July 1, 2018”, as fetched 2026-10-11; 12135865 bytes, sha256 43c9a3416cb426ae558e9731ce62361ef6fc429bc2159a99b5fe7d569bf77e7e; 30 pages, scanned page images with an invisible OCR text layer; this chapter PDF pages 4 to 5, printed pages 1 to 2): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/render.py); checked against two machine readings never published (RapidOCR on each page, vision/ocr-batch.py, and the file's own invisible OCR text layer, which the scanner made), the running header and the page numbers dropped from both: every 6-word window of the transcription looked up, and the 1 span the readings do not hold - Rule 1.3's section sign, which RapidOCR reads as “S”, and its italic effective-date note, which the layer garbles - read again on the page images (vision/check-log.txt). Each printed paragraph, heading and list item is set as one line, a two-column list one row per line with its cells separated by “ | ”; the apostrophes, quotation marks and dashes are set as printed, each read on an enlarged crop of the page image; the running header (“Superior Court of California, County of Sutter”) and the page numbers are not part of the text; the transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published. Review note: Rule 1.0 prints the rules' first effective date (“These rules become effective on July 1, 2013.”); the book's cover prints its amendments of January 1, 2017, July 1, 2017 and July 1, 2018, the date this card carries.
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.