Opinion
March 1, 2000.
No. 260 Criminal Procedural Rules Docket No. 2.
ORDER
NOW, this first day of March, 2000, upon the recommendation of the Criminal Procedural Rules Committee; the proposal having been published before adoption at 29 Pa.B. 1360 (March 13, 1999), and in the Atlantic Reporter (Second Series Advance Sheets, Vol. 724/725), and a Final Report to be published with this ORDER:
IT IS ORDERED pursuant to Article V, Section 10 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania that:
(1) the Rules of Criminal Procedure are hereby reorganized and renumbered;
(2) the editorial changes and technical corrections to the Rules of Criminal Procedure are adopted;
(3) new Rules 109, 112, 460, 461, 462, 645, and 1101 are promulgated;
(4) former Rule 301, renumbered Rule 106, is amended;
(5) former Rule 1108, renumbered Rule 633, is amended;
(6) former Rule 1117, renumbered Rule 602, is amended;
(7) the revision of the Comment to former Rule 51, renumbered Rule 400, is approved;
(8) the revision of the Comment to former Rule 313, renumbered Rule 585, is approved;
(9) the revision of the Comment to former Rule 314, renumbered Rule 586, is approved;
(10) former Rules 90 and 150 are rescinded and replaced by new Rule 109;
(11) former Rules 27 and 328 are rescinded and replaced by new Rule 112;
(12) former Rule 86 is rescinded and replaced by new Rules 460, 461, and 462; and
(13) former Rules 39, 159, 340, 1415 and 2020 are rescinded and replaced by new Rule 1101, all in the attached form.
The rules in Part I of the Order are shown in chronological order based on the current rule numbers, before the renumbering. The rules in Part II of the Order, the new rules, are shown in chronological order based on the rule numbers after renumbering.
This ORDER shall be processed in accordance with Pa.R.J.A. 103(b), and shall be effective April 1, 2001.
NOTE: ATTACHED TO THIS ORDER, AS AN APPENDIX, ARE A TABLE OF CONTENTS SHOWING THE NEW CHAPTERS AND THE RENUMBERED RULES, A DERIVATION TABLE, AND A DISPOSITION TABLE.
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