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Local Rules of Superior Court of California, County of Imperial

Rule 2.17 Definition of a Judicial Vacation 2) Juvenile Dependency Day 3) Misdemeanor 4) Felony Pursuant to Rule 10.603(c)(2)(E) of the California Rules of Court, the Presiding Permissive electronic submission of Judge of each Court is required to allow the documents can be done at judges of that court vacation days according https://imperial.courts.ca.gov/ to their number of years of service. Rule 10.603(c)(2)(H) requires each court to define All parties electronically submitting and a vacation day, for purposes of the above filing documents to the Court must have all entitlement. documents comply with the following formatting rules: A “day of vacation” for a judge of the court shall be defined as an approved absence for 1) All Documents must be in standard one full business day. PDF (Portable Document Format) format and viewable on any standard [Adopted July 1, 2018] PDF Viewer. (i.e. Adobe Reader or Foxit PDF Reader)Rule 2.18 Mandatory Electronic Filing & Permissive Electronic Submission of 2) All Documents submitted of moreCourt Documents than 15 pages and/or containing multiple exhibits/sections must beBeginning January 1, 2022, electronic filing bookmarked. (Free PDF readerof Court documents will be mandatory for software is available online withthe following case types: bookmarking capabilities) 1) Civil Unlimited a. Bookmarks should be named 2) Civil Limited to match the bookmarked 3) Probate section/exhibit. 4) Family Law b. Examples of documents to be 5) Family Support bookmarked include, but are 6) Small Claims not limited to, Civil Petitions 7) Adoptions with Exhibits and Motions with Exhibits.These documents include initial case filings and subsequent filings. Self-represented 3) Also, all documents electronicallyparties or other self-represented persons are delivered must be in a text-exempt from any mandatory electronic searchable format, i.e., OCR.delivery, however, are encouraged to deliver documents electronically.

[Adopted July 1, 2019, amended 01/01/20, 01/01/22]

A list of electronic filing service providers (EFSP’s) that are accepted by Imperial Rule 2.19 [Repealed]Superior Court can be found on the Court’s website: https://imperial.courts.ca.gov/ [Adopted January 1, 2020, repealed 01/01/24]

The following case types are permitted to be electronically submitted via the Court’s eDelivery submission system: 1) Juvenile Delinquency

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