Title Ten Rules

California Rules of Court

(Revised January 1, 2013)

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TITLE 10. JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION RULES

Division 1. Judicial Council

Chapter 1. The Judicial Council and Internal Committees

Rule 10.1. Authority, duties, and goals of the Judicial Council

Rule 10.2. Judicial Council membership and terms

Rule 10.3. Nonvoting members

Rule 10.4. Nominations and appointments to the Judicial Council

Rule 10.5. Notice and agenda of council meetings

Rule 10.6. Judicial Council meetings

Rule 10.10. Judicial Council internal committees

Rule 10.11. Executive and Planning Committee

Rule 10.12. Policy Coordination and Liaison Committee

Rule 10.13. Rules and Projects Committee

Rule 10.14. Litigation Management Committee

Rule 10.20. Proposals for new or amended rules, standards, or forms; rule-making process in general

Rule 10.21. Proposals from members of the public for changes to rules, standards, or forms

Rule 10.22. Rule-making procedures

Chapter 2. Judicial Council Advisory Committees and Task Forces

Rule 10.30. Judicial Council advisory bodies

Rule 10.31. Advisory committee membership and terms

Rule 10.32. Nominations and appointments to advisory committees

Rule 10.33. Advisory committee meetings

Rule 10.34. Duties and responsibilities of advisory committees

Rule 10.40. Appellate Advisory Committee

Rule 10.41. Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee

Rule 10.42. Criminal Law Advisory Committee

Rule 10.43. Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee

Rule 10.44. Probate and Mental Health Advisory Committee

Rule 10.46. Trial Court Presiding Judges Advisory Committee

Rule 10.48. Court Executives Advisory Committee

Rule 10.49. Conference of Court Executives

Rule 10.50. Governing Committee of the Center for Judicial Education and Research

Rule 10.51. Court Interpreters Advisory Panel

Rule 10.52. Administrative Presiding Justices Advisory Committee

Rule 10.53. Court Technology Advisory Committee

Rule 10.54. Traffic Advisory Committee

Rule 10.55. Access and Fairness Advisory Committee

Rule 10.56. Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee

Rule 10.57. Judicial Service Advisory Committee

Rule 10.58. Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions

Rule 10.59. Advisory Committee on Criminal Jury Instructions

Rule 10.70. Task forces and other advisory bodies

Chapter 3. Administrative Office of the Courts

Rule 10.80. Administrative Director of the Courts

Rule 10.81. Administrative Office of the Courts

Division 2. Administration of the Judicial Branch

Chapter 1. Budget and Fiscal Management

Rule 10.101. Role of the Judicial Council and Administrative Office of the Courts

Rule 10.102. Acceptance of gifts

Rule 10.103. Limitation on intrabranch contracting

Rule 10.104. Limitation on contracting with former employees

Rule 10.105. Allocation of new fee, fine, and forfeiture revenue

Rule 10.106. Judicial branch travel expense reimbursement policy

Rule 10.107. Trial Court Budget Working Group

Chapter 2. Court Security

Rule 10.170. Working Group on Court Security

Rule 10.171. Working Group on Court Security Fiscal Guidelines

Rule 10.172. Court security plans

Rule 10.173. Court security committees

Rule 10.174. Petition Regarding Disputes Related to Court Security Memoranda of Understanding

Chapter 3. Court Facilities

Rule 10.180. Court facilities standards

Rule 10.181. Court facilities policies, procedures, and standards

Rule 10.182. Operation and maintenance of court facilities

Rule 10.183. Decision making on transfer of responsibility for trial court facilities

Rule 10.184. Acquisition, space programming, construction, and design of court facilities

Chapter 4. Management of Claims and Litigation

Rule 10.201. Claim and litigation procedure

Rule 10.202. Claims and litigation management

Rule 10.203. Contractual indemnification

Chapter 5. Ethics Training [Repealed]

Rule 10.301. [Renumbered effective January 1, 2013]

Chapter 5. Management of Human Resources

Rule 10.350. Workers' compensation program

Chapter 6. Court Technology, Information, and Automation

Rule 10.400. Judicial Branch Statistical Information System (JBSIS)

Chapter 7. Minimum Education Requirements, Expectations, and Recommendations

Rule 10.451. Judicial branch education

Rule 10.452. Minimum education requirements, expectations, and recommendations

Rule 10.455. Ethics orientation for Judicial Council members and for judicial branch employees required to file a statement of economic interests

Rule 10.461. Minimum education requirements for Supreme Court and Court of Appeal justices

Rule 10.462. Minimum education requirements and expectations for trial court judges and subordinate judicial officers

Rule 10.463. Education requirements for family court judges and subordinate judicial officers

Rule 10.464. Education requirements and expectations for judges and subordinate judicial officers on domestic violence issues

Rule 10.468. Content-based and hours-based education for superior court judges and subordinate judicial officers regularly assigned to hear probate proceedings

Rule 10.469. Judicial education recommendations for justices, judges, and subordinate judicial officers

Rule 10.471. Minimum education requirements for Supreme Court and Court of Appeal clerk/administrators

Rule 10.472. Minimum education requirements for Supreme Court and Court of Appeal managing attorneys, supervisors, and other personnel

Rule 10.473. Minimum education requirements for trial court executive officers

Rule 10.474. Trial court managers, supervisors, and other personnel

Rule 10.478. Content-based and hours-based education for court investigators, probate attorneys, and probate examiners

Rule 10.479. Education recommendations for appellate and trial court personnel

Rule 10.481. Approved providers; approved course criteria

Rule 10.491. Minimum education requirements for Administrative Office of the Courts executives, managers, supervisors, and other employees

Division 3. Judicial Administration Rules Applicable to All Courts

Rule 10.500. Public access to judicial administrative records

Rule 10.501. Maintenance of budget and management information

Rule 10.502. Judicial sabbatical pilot program

Rule 10.503. Use of recycled paper by all courts

Rule 10.504. Smoking prohibited in all courts

Rule 10.505. Judicial robes

Division 4. Trial Court Administration

Chapter 1. General Rules on Trial Court Management

Rule 10.601. Superior court management

Rule 10.602. Selection and term of presiding judge

Rule 10.603. Authority and duties of presiding judge

Rule 10.605. Executive committee

Rule 10.608. Duties of all judges

Rule 10.610. Duties of court executive officer

Rule 10.611. Nondiscrimination in court appointments

Rule 10.612. Use of gender-neutral language

Rule 10.613. Local court rules-adopting, filing, distributing, and maintaining

Rule 10.614. Local court forms

Rule 10.620. Public access to administrative decisions of trial courts

Rule 10.625. Certain demographic data relating to regular grand jurors

Rule 10.630. Reporting of reciprocal assignment orders

Chapter 2. Trial Court Management of Human Resources

Article 1. Trial Court Employee Labor Relations

Rule 10.650. Court Employee Labor Relations Rules

Rule 10.651. Purpose

Rule 10.652. Definitions

Rule 10.653. Right and obligation to meet and confer

Rule 10.654. Scope of representation

Rule 10.655. Governing court employee labor relations

Rule 10.656. Transition provisions

Rule 10.657. Construction

Rule 10.658. Interpretation

Rule 10.659. Other provisions

Rule 10.660. Enforcement of agreements-petitions (Gov. Code, §§ 71639.5, 71825.2)

Article 2. Other Human Resources Rules

Rule 10.670. Trial court personnel plans

Chapter 3. Subordinate Judicial Officers

Rule 10.700. Role of subordinate judicial officers

Rule 10.701. Qualifications and education of subordinate judicial officers

Rule 10.702. Subordinate judicial officers: practice of law

Rule 10.703. Subordinate judicial officers: complaints and notice requirements

Chapter 4. Referees [Reserved]

Chapter 5. Temporary Judges

Rule 10.740. Responsibilities of the trial courts for temporary judge programs

Rule 10.741. Duties and authority of the presiding judge

Rule 10.742. Use of attorneys as court-appointed temporary judges

Rule 10.743. Administrator of temporary judges program

Rule 10.744. Application procedures to serve as a court-appointed temporary judge

Rule 10.745. Performance

Rule 10.746. Complaints

Chapter 6. Court Interpreters

Rule 10.761. Regional Court Interpreter Employment Relations Committees

Rule 10.762. Cross-assignments for court interpreter employees

Chapter 7. Qualifications of Court Investigators, Probate Attorneys, and Probate Examiners

Rule 10.776. Definitions

Rule 10.777. Qualifications of court investigators, probate attorneys, and probate examiners

Chapter 8. Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs

Rule 10.780. Administration of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs

Rule 10.781. Court-related ADR neutrals

Rule 10.782. ADR program information

Rule 10.783. ADR program administration

Chapter 9. Trial Court Budget and Fiscal Management

Rule 10.800. Superior court budgeting

Rule 10.801. Superior court budget procedures

Rule 10.802. Maintenance of and public access to budget and management information [Repealed]

Rule 10.803. Information access disputes-writ petitions (Gov. Code, § 71675)

Rule 10.804. Superior court financial policies and procedures

Rule 10.805. Notice of change in court-county relationship

Rule 10.810. Court operations

Rule 10.811. Reimbursement of costs associated with homicide trials

Rule 10.815. Fees to be set by the court

Rule 10.820. Acceptance of credit cards by the superior courts

Rule 10.821. Acceptance of checks and other negotiable paper

Rule 10.830. Disposal of surplus court personal property

Chapter 10. Trial Court Records Management

Rule 10.850. Trial court records

Rule 10.851. Court indexes-automated maintenance

Rule 10.854. Standards and guidelines for trial court records

Rule 10.855. Superior court records sampling program

Rule 10.856. Notice of superior court records destruction

Chapter 11. Trial Court Automation

Rule 10.870. Trial court automation standards

Chapter 12. Trial Court Management of Civil Cases

Rule 10.900. Case management and calendaring system

Rule 10.901. Internal management procedures

Rule 10.910. Assigned cases to be tried or dismissed-notification to presiding judge

Chapter 13. Trial Court Management of Criminal Cases

Rule 10.950. Role of presiding judge, supervising judge, criminal division, and master calendar department in courts having more than three judges

Rule 10.951. Duties of supervising judge of the criminal division

Rule 10.952. Meetings concerning the criminal court system

Rule 10.953. Procedures for disposition of cases before the preliminary hearing

Chapter 14. Management of Self-Help Centers

Rule 10.960. Court self-help centers

Division 5. Appellate Court Administration

Chapter 1. Rules Relating to the Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal

Rule 10.1000. Transfer of causes

Rule 10.1004. Court of Appeal administrative presiding justice

Rule 10.1008. Courts of Appeal with more than one division

Rule 10.1012. Supervising progress of appeals

Rule 10.1016. Notice of failure to perform judicial duties

Rule 10.1020. Reviewing court clerk/administrator

Rule 10.1024. Court of Appeal minutes

Rule 10.1028. Preservation and destruction of Court of Appeal records

Rule 10.1030. Local rules of Courts of Appeal

Chapter 2. Rules Relating to the Superior Court Appellate Division

Rule 10.1100. Assignments to the appellate division

Rule 10.1104. Presiding judge

Rule 10.1108. Sessions