SNYDER AND UNION COUNTIES Adoption of Local Rules; Nos. MC-10-2006, CP-55-AD-2-2006 [36 Pa.B. 2280] Order And Now, this 31st day of March, 2006, it is hereby Ordered as follows:
1. Local Rule of Civil Procedure 17CV1301.l(A) is hereby amended to change the amount in controversy subject to compulsory arbitration from Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) or less to Thirty-Five Thousand Dollars ($35,000) or less. The Court accordingly hereby adopts the Rule as set forth in Appendix ''A'' as follows.
2. Said rule shall become effective thirty (30) days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
3. The Court Administrator of the 17th Judicial District is ordered and directed to do the following:
3.1. File seven (7) certified copies of this Order and of the pertinent Rules with the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.
3.2. File two (2) certified copies and a computer diskette containing this Order and the pertinent Rule with the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
3.3. File one (1) certified copy of this Order and the pertinent Rule with the Civil Procedural Rules Committee.
3.4. Provide one (1) copy of this Order and the Local Rule to each member of the Union-Snyder County Bar Association who maintain an active practice in Union or Snyder Counties.
3.5. Keep continuously available for public inspection, copies of this Order and the Local Rules.
By the Court
HAROLD F. WOELFEL, Jr.,
President JudgeAPPENDIX A 17CV1301.1 Cases for Submission.
A. Compulsory arbitration of matters as authorized by Section 7361 of the Judicial Code, 42 Pa.C.S. Section 101, et seq. shall apply to all cases at issue where the amount in controversy shall be Thirty-Five Thousand Dollars ($35,000) or less. The amount in controversy shall be determined from the pleadings or by an agreement of reference filed by the attorneys. The amount in controversy, when determined from the pleadings, shall be the largest amount claimed by any one party. In the event that a case within arbitration limits is consolidated with a case involving more than arbitration limits after the former has been referred to a board of arbitrators, the order of consolidation will remove the same from the jurisdiction of the board of arbitrators.
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 06-835. Filed for public inspection May 12, 2006, 9:00 a.m.]
