Rule 16.15 - FORMAT OF DOCUMENTS TO BE FILED ELECTRONICALLY(1) Any document filed via the eFiling system must be in a Portable Document Format (PDF) or Portable Document Format/A (PDF/A) that is compatible with the eFiling system requirements and that does not exceed 25 megabytes. An eFiler should break down a document that exceeds the size limit into as few smaller separate documents as possible, which the filer may upload as supporting documents under subsection (5) of this rule. Unless the PDF document is a pro se supplemental brief filed under ORAP 5.92 or a supplemental pro se petition for review of a Court of Appeals decision, the document shall allow text searching and shall allow copying and pasting text into another document.(2) A submitted document, when viewed in electronic format and when printed, shall comply, to the extent practicable, with the formatting requirements of any applicable Oregon Rule of Appellate Procedure. Except as provided in ORAP 16.40, a document submitted for electronic filing need not contain a physical signature.(3) An eFiler who submits a document that does not comply with an applicable Oregon Rule of Appellate Procedure will receive from the court an acknowledgement of the electronic filing and a notice of the deficiency or deficiencies to be corrected.(4) The court may require that an eFiler submit, in the manner and time specified by the court, an electronic version of a document in its original electronic format.(5) Except as provided in subsection (1) and paragraphs (5)(a) through (c) of this rule, to the extent practicable, an electronic filing must be submitted as a unified single PDF file, rather than as separate eFiled documents or as a principal eFiled document with additional supporting documents attached through the eFiling system.(a) The following documents must be submitted as supporting documents through the eFiling system:(i) One or more parts of an eFiled document that exceeds the size limit set out in subsection (1) of this rule, as a supporting document to the initial eFiled document.(ii) A memorandum of law accompanying a petition in a mandamus, habeas corpus, or quo warranto proceeding in the Supreme Court under ORAP 11.05 or ORAP 11.20, as a supporting document to the eFiled petition.(b) For an electronic filing containing an attachment that is confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure, the eFiler must eFile the attachment separately from the principal document, not as a supporting document attached through the eFiling system. For the principal document, the eFiler must include a comment that the related eFiling is a confidential attachment to the principal document. For the eFiled attachment, the eFiler must select the document name "Notice to Court Confidential Attachment." (c) For an electronically filed motion seeking approval to file another document, including an application to appear amicus curiae with an accompanying brief, where the eFiler intends to submit the brief or other document for filing at the same time, the brief or other document must be electronically filed separately from the motion seeking approval or application to appear amicus curiae, rather than being submitted as a supporting document attached to the motion. For each electronic filing transaction under this paragraph, the eFiler must include the following comments:(i) For the motion seeking approval or application to appear amicus curiae, a comment that the eFiler is submitting the brief or other document through a separate eFiling transaction; and(ii) For the brief or other document, a comment that the electronic filing transaction relates to the earlier electronic filing transaction that submitted the motion or application to appear amicus curiae.(6) An eFiled document may not contain an embedded audio or video file.(7) Unless otherwise provided by these rules or directed by the court, an eFiler shall not submit to the court paper copies of an eFiled document.Amended November 21, 2016, effective 1/1/2017; amended November 13, 2020, effective 1/1/2021.