{"id":2547,"date":"2015-11-22T20:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/?page_id=2547"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:02:55","slug":"local-rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/index.php\/local-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Pleas Local Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Local Rules Book Version - Effective 12-17-25<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

RULE 1. Scope and applicability of rules<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 2. Joint Session AND General Division Sessions<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 3. Presiding Judge, Assistant and Second Assistant Presiding Judges<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 4. General Division Administrative Judge<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 5. Terms of Court<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 6. Designation of official daily law journal<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 7. Individual assignment system<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 8. Juries<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 9. Deposit of security for costs<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 10. Trial Attorneys<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 11. Pleadings and other papers<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 12. Extensions of time to move or plead by stipulation<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 13. Default<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 14. Motions, memoranda and procedure thereon<\/a><\/h3>\n

Rule 14.1 Bond<\/a><\/h3>\n

Rule 14.2 Setting Aside Bond Forfeiture Judgements<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 15. Case management<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 16. Judgments upon warrant of attorney to confess<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 17. Journal entries<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 18. Disposition of cases called for trial<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 19. Judgment debtor examinations<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 20. Fees<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 21. Process Servers <\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 22. Notary public: examination and appointments<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 23: Magistrates<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 24: Court Technology Plan<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 25. Court administrator<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 26. Effective Date; Repeal; Amendments<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 27. Reserved<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 28. Reserved<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 29. Reserved<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 30. Media coverage of Court proceedings<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 31. Mediation<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 32 - Use of Body-Worn Cameras (BWC) by Hamilton County Sheriff\u2019s Office Court Services Division<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 33. Hamilton County Courthouse<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 34. Electronic Transmission Filings<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 35. Hamilton County Drug Treatment and Recover Court<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 36. Issuance of Warrant for Probation Violation (per Criminal Rule 4)<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 37. Civil Protection Order\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 38. Court Record Retention<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 39. Return of Inmates for Forfeiture Proceedings<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 40. Reserved<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 41. Appointment of Special Prosecutor<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 42. DNA Testing<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 43. Reserved<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 44. Search Warrants<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 45. Foreclosure<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 46. Certificate of Qualification for Employment<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 47. Specialized Dockets<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 48. Commercial Docket<\/a><\/h3>\n

RULE 49. Use of Artificial Intelligence in Court Submissions<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local Rules Book Version - Effective 12-17-25 RULE 1. Scope and applicability of rules RULE 2. Joint Session AND General Division Sessions RULE 3. Presiding Judge, Assistant and Second Assistant Presiding Judges RULE 4. General Division Administrative Judge RULE 5. Terms of Court RULE 6. Designation of official daily law journal RULE 7. Individual assignment system RULE 8. Juries RULE Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth-subpage.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":126,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21688,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2547\/revisions\/21688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncountycourts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}