RULE L1018.1

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And now, this 4th day of March, 1996. It Is Hereby Ordered and Decreed that Local Rule L1018.1 concerning Civil Actions is hereby revised and shall become effective thirty (30) days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and shall apply to all civil actions filed after that date.

RULE L1033

Whenever an amended pleading is filed involving more than one paragraph of the original pleading, it shall be a complete pleading and not merely the amendments to the former pleadings. The amended pleading shall clearly indicate that it is an amended pleading and the paragraphs shall be re-numbered.

RULE L1034

A motion for judgment on the pleadings shall set forth the reasons on which it is based.

RULE L1066

Any order entered under subsection R.C.P. 1066 (b) (1) shall include a description of the property.

RULE L1301

All cases which are now or later at issue where the amount in controversy shall be twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) or less, exclusive of interest and costs, except those involving title to real estate, shall be submitted to and heard by a board of arbitrators consisting of three (3) members of the Bar in active practice in this county.

And now, this 12th day of August, 1992. It Is Hereby Ordered and Decreed that Local Rule L1301, concerning compulsory arbitration limits, is hereby revised and shall apply to all cases which are at issue on or after October 1, 1992.

RULE L1302

1. Upon the filing of a praecipe for arbitration, the prothonotary shall notify the court administrator who shall thereupon nominate a board of potential arbitrators consisting of three (3) attorneys, plus one (1) attorney for each counsel of record and each unrepresented party. The nomination shall be made from a list of members of the bar qualified to act as arbitrators, which shall be kept by the court administrator. Nomination shall be made in the order of listing, except where attorneys are excused on account of incapacity or illness, or for other reasons herein set forth. Not more than one (I) member of a firm or association of attorneys shall be appointed to the same board and no members of a firm or association of attorneys shall be appointed to a board to hear a case where another member of such firm or association of attorneys is counsel for any of the parties litigant.
2. The list of attorneys nominated to the potential board shall be sent by the court administrator to the attorney for each party and to each unrepresented party. Each such party may strike off one (1) attorney so named and return the list to the court administrator within five (5) days of receipt. The remaining three (3) attorneys shall constitute the board of arbitration. If both or all parties strike the same name or no name from the list, the first three (3) remaining names will make up the board.
3. As soon as the court administrator receives the returned list from the parties, or after (5) days if a list is not returned, he shall notify the prothonotary of the arbitrators selected. The prothonotary shall, within ten (10) days, notify the arbitrators in writing of their selection. Arbitrators so appointed shall not be excused from service except by the court administrator upon cause shown.
4. The first member listed for a board who has been admitted to the practice of law not less than three (3) years shall be chairman of the board and shall be responsible for the setting of the date and place of hearing, for giving notice thereof to opposing counsel and to the prothonotary, and for the filing of the board's report and award if any.
5. If, after a date for hearing has been fixed, the chairman shall continue the hearing for any reason, the continued hearing shall be held within thirty (30) days of the date originally fixed.
6. The members of the board shall be sworn as arbitrators, before entering upon their duties, by a person authorized to administer oaths.

Rule L1308

1. Each member of the board of arbitrators shall be paid by the county a fee, as fixed by the court from time to time, for each case heard, upon the filing of the board's report and award, if any.
2. Upon the filing of the board's report or award, the prothonotary shall certify to the county commissioners and to the county controller that the report and award, if any, has been filed, together with the names of the members of the board serving in the case, and thereupon the county shall pay the aforesaid fee to each member of the board serving in the case.
3. In the event that a case shall be settled or withdrawn or otherwise terminated by or between the parties before the board members have been sworn, the board members shall not be entitled to the aforesaid fee. The attorney for the plaintiff in such case shall file a praecipe with the prothonotary, requesting that the board so appointed be vacated and that the prothonotary assign the board to hear the next case proper for arbitration. The prothonotary shall not mark or certify a case settled and discontinued until the attorney for the plaintiff has presented his praecipe vacating the board and requesting their reassignment. Once the praecipe has been filed, the court administrator will promptly reassign these members to the next arbitration case for which no board had been assigned prior thereto. In the event that anyone shall be disqualified from serving upon the next case, then such disqualified members shall be appointed to a board of arbitration upon the first case for which he may be eligible.
4. In the event that a case shall be settled or withdrawn or otherwise terminated by or between the parties after the board members have been sworn, but before the filing of the board's report and award, if any, the board shall not be required to file any report or award, but its members shall be entitled to the aforesaid fee, and the prothonotary shall so certify such settlement, withdrawal, or other termination of the case by the parties to the county commissioners and to the county controller for that purpose and the board of arbitrators shall be paid their fee.
5. The fees payable or paid to the members of the board of arbitrators under these rules shall not be taxed as costs, nor follow the award with other costs.

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