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Local Rules of the County Courts Concerning the Electronic Filing of Court Documents (adopted October 30, 2013) — posted on the court's own website — the court-procedure tier (standing procedures, policies, and preferences the court itself publishes), distinct from the TOPICs-registered local-rules tier (TRCP 3a registration applies to local rules). Operative requirements quoted verbatim; the posted document is the controlling text.
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Harris County Local Rules of the County Courts concerning the Electronic Filing of Court Documents (adopted pursuant to Rule 3a, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure). Rule 1.1 Purpose: these rules govern the electronic filing and service of court documents, by any method other than fax filing, in Harris County. Rule 1.2 Effect on Existing Local Rules: these rules are adopted in addition to any other local rules of the county courts in Harris County and do not supersede or replace any previously adopted local rules. Rule 1.3 Electronic Filing Optional Unless Ordered by Court: (a) except as provided by subsection (b), the electronic filing and serving of court documents is wholly optional; (b) upon the motion of a party and for good cause shown, a county court may order the parties in a particular case to electronically file and serve court documents that are permitted to be electronically filed under Rule 3.3. Rule 2.1 defines a "convenience fee" charged in connection with electronic filing as a court cost. Rule 7.1: the court assigned to the case decides any dispute involving these rules. Adopted by the undersigned judges [the four County Civil Courts at Law] on October 30, 2013 and submitted to the Supreme Court of Texas for approval; effective upon approval.
Reviewer note: Own-site document live-fetched by us 2026-08-22, byte-identical to the AJR-11 recon capture of 2026-08-21 (dual custody). Operative provisions transcribed by vision-read of the posted scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi; no usable embedded text layer); the posted document (sha256 f127609b23c9…) is the controlling text. Currency note: adopted 2013 under TRCP 3a, before the Supreme Court of Texas made e-filing mandatory (TRCP 21(f)); the statewide mandate controls where in conflict, and the instrument remains the courts' posted e-filing local rule (convenience-fee and dispute-resolution provisions).
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1 verbatim requirement on filing.