RAP RULE 18.5
                     SERVICE AND FILING OF PAPERS


    (a) Service. Except when a rule requires the appellate court
commissioner or clerk or the trial court clerk to serve a particular
paper, and except as provided in rule 9.5, a person filing a paper must,
at or before the time of filing, serve a copy of the paper on all parties,
amicus, and other persons who may be entitled to notice. If a person does
not have an attorney of record, service should be made upon the person.
Service must be made as provided in CR 5(b), (f), (g), and (h).

    (b) Proof of Service. Proof of service should be made by an
acknowledgment of service, or by an affidavit, or, if service is by mail,
as provided in CR 5(b). Proof of service may appear on or be attached to
the papers filed.

    (c) Filing. Papers required or permitted to be filed in the appellate
court must be filed with the clerk, except that an appellate court judge
may permit papers to be filed with the judge, in which event the judge
will note the filing date on the papers and promptly transmit them to the
appellate court clerk.

    (d) Filing by Facsimile. (Reserved. See GR 17--Facsimile Transmission.)

    (e) Service and Filing by an Inmate Confined in an Institution. An
inmate confined in an institution may file and serve papers by mail in
accordance with GR 3.1.


                              References
    Rule 9.5, Filing and Service of Report of Proceedings-Objections.


[Amended effective September 1, 2006.]