Opinion
JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION DOCKET NO. 479
02-03-2017
IN RE: AMENDMENT OF RULE 103 OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
ORDER
AND NOW, this 3rd day of February, 2017, the proposal having been submitted without publication pursuant to Pa.R.J.A. No. 103(a)(3):
It is Ordered pursuant to Article V, Section 10 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania that Rule 103 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Judicial Administration is amended in the attached form.
This Order shall be processed in accordance with Pa.R.J.A. No. 103(b), and shall be effective immediately. Additions to the rule are shown in bold and are underlined.
Deletions from the rule are shown in bold and brackets. Rule 103. PROCEDURE FOR ADOPTION, FILING AND PUBLISHING RULES *** (d) Rules of procedure adopted by other courts of the System. (1) For the purpose of this subdivision, the term "local rule" shall include every rule, administrative order, regulation, directive, policy, custom, usage, form or order of general application, however labeled or promulgated, which is adopted by a court of common pleas [the Philadelphia Municipal Court-Criminal Division,]and the Philadelphia Municipal Court[-Traffic Division,] to govern practice and procedure. This subdivision shall also apply to any amendment of a local rule. ***