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UTCR 1.050 — PROMULGATION OF SLR; REVIEW OF SLR; ENFORCEABILITY OF LOCAL PRACTICES

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1.050 PROMULGATION OF SLR; REVIEW OF SLR; ENFORCEABILITY OF
LOCAL PRACTICES
(1) Promulgation of Supplementary Local Rules (SLR)
(a) Pursuant to ORS 3.220, a court may make and enforce local rules consistent
with and supplementary to these rules for the purpose of giving full effect to
these rules and for the prompt and orderly dispatch of the business of the
court.
(b) A court must incorporate into its SLR any local practice, procedure, form, or
other requirement (“local practice”) with which the court expects or requires
parties and attorneys to comply.  A court may not adopt SLR that duplicate or
conflict with the constitutions, statutes, ORCP, UTCR, Chief Justice Orders,
Supreme Court Orders, disciplinary rules for attorneys, judicial canons, or
Oregon Rules of Appellate Procedure (ORAP).  A court may not adopt SLR
that establish internal operating procedures of the court or trial court
administrator that do not create requirements or have potential consequences
for parties or attorneys.
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(c) Every court must promulgate an SLR governing the scheduling and
notification of parties for criminal trials, show cause hearings, and motions.  A
temporary rule may be issued for a specified period of time with Chief Justice
approval if the procedures are under revision or study by the affected court.
(d) Each court must post all forms required by SLR on its website and must
include the link to that forms page in its SLR.  SLR and related forms shall
contain cross-references to one another.  A court may attach to its SLR all
forms that the SLR requires, for convenience.  Chief Justice approval is not
required to amend any form required by SLR.
(2) Review of SLR
(a) The presiding judge must give written notice of proposed new rules and
proposed changes to existing rules to the president(s) of the bar
association(s) in the affected judicial district and allow the bar association(s)
to provide public comment to the presiding judge.  The presiding judge must
give the written notice at least 49 days before the date of submission of the
SLR to the Office of the State Court Administrator (OSCA) pursuant to
subsection (b).
(b) On or before September 1 of each year, the presiding judge or designee must
submit to OSCA a complete set of SLR, including proposed new rules and
proposed changes to existing rules, if any.  The submission must include a
written explanation of each proposed new rule and each proposed change of
an existing rule.  Absent a showing of good cause, proposed new rules and
proposed changes to existing rules will be considered by the UTCR
Committee and the Chief Justice or designee not more often than once each
year.
(c) SLR submitted to OSCA must show proposed changes as follows:  new
wording and new rules must be in bold and underlined and have braces
placed before and after the new wording ({…}), wording to be deleted and
rules to be repealed must be in italics and have brackets placed before and
after the deleted wording ([...]).  When final SLR are submitted to OSCA
pursuant to subsection (g), changes shall not be indicated in the manner
required by this subsection.
(d) The UTCR Committee will conduct an annual review of existing rules,
proposed new rules, and proposed changes to existing rules.  The UTCR
Committee may suggest rule changes to a presiding judge, and recommend
disapprovals to the Chief Justice, regarding existing rules, proposed new
rules, and proposed changes to existing rules.
(e) The Chief Justice or designee shall issue any disapprovals on or before
December 15 of the same year.  If a local rule is disapproved, notice of that
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action shall be given to the presiding judge of the judicial district submitting
the rule.
(f) A presiding judge may include in the final SLR, submitted pursuant to
subsection (g), changes suggested by the UTCR Committee.  A presiding
judge must address in the final SLR any disapprovals made by the Chief
Justice.  Subsection (a) does not apply to these changes or disapprovals.
(g) Judicial districts must file with OSCA a final certified electronic copy of their
SLR in PDF and send a copy to the president(s) of the bar association(s) in
the affected judicial district.  The final certified electronic copy must be
received by OSCA no later than January 1 of the next year.  Those SLR
become effective on February 1 of the next year.  SLR filed after January 1
become effective 30 days after the date received by OSCA.
(h) The Chief Justice may waive the time limits established in this section upon a
showing of good cause.
(i) The UTCR Reporter may authorize correction of typographical errors,
grammatical errors, inaccurate citations, and inaccurate website addresses if
the correction does not change the substance of the rule.  The judicial district
must follow the filing requirements of ORS 3.220(2)(b) for authorized
corrections and give appropriate notice of authorized corrections to the public.
(3) Enforceability of Local Practices Not Contained in SLR.  When any local practice is
not contained in a court’s SLR, the court may not enforce such local practice or
impose any sanction therefore, unless the court has first afforded the party or
attorney a reasonable opportunity to cure the violation by complying with the local
practice.
Reporter’s Note (August 1, 2023):  Any form required by SLR that is provided by the
court is done so for convenience but is not part of the SLR.
1987 Commentary:  Subsection (2) renumbered as paragraph (1)(c) as of August 1,
1994:  This subsection requires a court to promulgate local rules governing the
scheduling and notification of counsel for trials, show cause hearings, and for motions.
The purpose of this subsection is to give counsel, everywhere in the state, notice of how
critical case events are scheduled by each local court.  The purpose of this subsection,
therefore, is not to promote any particular calendaring procedure, but rather to eliminate
unwritten rules of court.
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