1274 Rules of the Court of Common Pleas; no. 96-1335 civil term

Title 255--LOCAL
COURT RULES

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

Rules of the Court of Common Pleas; No. 96-1335 Civil Term

[29 Pa.B. 4168]

Order of Court

   And Now, this 15th day of July, 1999, the following Rules of the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, are hereby promulgated and adopted for use, effective September 15, 1999, or thirty (30) days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

   Pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 239, the Court Administrator is directed to forward seven (7) certified copies of this order to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, two (2) certified copies to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin together with a diskette, formatted in Microsoft Word for Windows reflecting the text in the hard copy version, one (1) copy to the Supreme Court Civil Procedural Rules Committee and/or the Supreme Court Domestic Relations Committee, and one (1) copy to the Cumberland Law Journal.

By the Court

GEORGE E. HOFFER,   
President Judge

Inactive Cases Not At Issue

Rule 228. The Prothonotary shall list, for general call on the last Tuesday of October of each year, all civil matters which are not at issue, and in which no proceedings of record have occurred during the two years or more immediately prior thereto. The Prothonotary shall, in the manner provided by Pa.R.J.A. 1901(c), notify counsel of record and any parties for whom no appearance has been entered, that the matter has been so listed. If no action is taken, and no written objection is filed in a listed matter prior to the time set for the general call, the Prothonotary shall strike the matter from the list, and enter an order as of course dismissing the matter for failure to pros-ecute. If, at the call of the list, no good cause is shown why a matter should be continued, the court shall enter an order dismissing the matter with prejudice.

Adopted and effective January 26, 1976; amended April 1, 1995, effective April 30, 1995; amended, July 20, 1998, effective, August 20, 1998; amended July 15, 1999, effective September 15, 1999.

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 99-1274. Filed for public inspection August 6, 1999, 9:00 a.m.]