Pennsylvania Local Court Rules

Sources of local rules:
   A complete set of all county local rules (over 11,000 pages) was scanned in November of 1998. Since that time some counties have submitted electronic versions of their local rules. These electronic versions are included in the results from the AOPC Search page and are indicated as "Searchable" in the table.

Changes to local rules:
   As local rules are adopted by Judicial Districts, the President Judge of the Judicial District sends a copy, usually with a diskette, to the Pennsylvania Bulletin for publication and also to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC). On many rules, the effective date of the rule is thirty (30) days after publication within Local Rules of Civil Procedure in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. The Pennsylvania Bulletin is published weekly by the Legislative Reference Bureau http://www.legis.state.pa.us/.

   The Legal Department of the AOPC, updates the "Local Rule Changes" table with this rule change and emails it to the AOPC Information Technology (IT) Department. The IT Department, with permission of the Legislative Reference Bureau, downloads the local rule changes from the Pennsylvania Bulletin, names the download with the judicial district and effective date, and posts them to this Local Rules web site. The local rule changes from the Pennsylvania Bulletin are all searchable.

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Directories for each County with .pdf files.
The counties in the white rectangles have rules that are searchable.