LUZERNE COUNTY Jurisdictional Maximum Monetary Limits for Compulstory Arbitration; No. 7433-C-96 [26 Pa.B. 6187] Order And Now this 10th day of December, 1996, at 9 o'clock a.m., in order to increase the jurisdictional maximum monetary limits of compulsory arbitration in Luzerne County, it is
Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that Luzerne County Local Rule 260 governing arbitration is hereby renumbered Rule 1301 and subsection (a) of said Rule is amended to provide as follows:
Rule 1301.
(a) All civil actions in which the amount in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, is FORTY THOUSAND ($40,000.00) DOLLARS or less shall be submitted to and heard and decided by a Board of Arbitrators pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of 42 Pa.C.S.A. Sec. 7361 and Pa.R.C.P. 1301 et seq.
It Is Further Ordered and Directed that the amendment shall become effective thirty (30) days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and that seven (7) certified copies shall be filed with the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts; that two (2) certified copies shall be filed with the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin; one (1) certified copy shall be filed with the Civil Procedural Rules Committee; and one (1) certified copy shall be available for inspection in the Prothonotary's Office and the Court Administrator's Office.
By the Court
PATRICK J. TOOLE, Jr.,
President Judge[Pa.B. Doc. No. 96-2184. Filed for public inspection December 27, 1996, 9:00 a.m.]
