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                           LR 5
        SERVICE AND FILING OF PLEADINGS AND OTHER PAPERS

     (d) Filing.

     (5) Documents Not to be Filed. Photocopies of
reported cases, statutes or texts shall not be filed as
an appendix to a brief or otherwise but shall be
furnished directly to the judge hearing the matter.
Documents or copies thereof produced during discovery
and other items, which should properly be received as
exhibits rather than as a part of the court file shall
not be included in the court file.

     (6) Case Information Cover Sheet. Each new civil
and domestic case filing shall be accompanied by a Case
Information Cover Sheet prepared and submitted by the
party filing said new civil or domestic case. Attached
as Exhibit A to this rule is the form of the Case
Information Cover Sheet.

     (7) Electronic filing of documents. Electronic filing of
documents shall be permitted
provided that the electronic transmission of documents
is done in a manner approved by the Superior Court Clerk.

       (A) Signatures: Use of electronic filing by a party or
    attorney shall constitute compliance CR11's signature
    requirement. A printed copy of the electronically filed
    document with original signatures shall be maintained by the
    filing party and made available for inspection by other
    parties or the Court upon request. Documents containing
    signatures of third-parties (i.e., unopposed motions,
    affidavits, stipulations, etc.) may also be filed
    electronically by indicating in the original signatures are
    maintained by the filing party in paper-format.

       (B) Time for Filing and Effect of Use of Efiling: Any
    pleading filed electronically shall be considered as filed
    with the Court when transmission is completed ("authorized
    date and time"). Any document Efiled with the Court by 5:00
    PT shall be deemed filed with the Court on that date.

       (C) Form of Documents Electronically Filed: All
    electronically filed pleadings shall be formatted in
    accordance with the applicable rules governing formatting of
    paper pleadings.

       (D) Payment Of Statutory Filing Fees: All statutory filing
    fees shall be collected and paid for electronically filed
    documents according to the then current methods approved by
    the Clerk of the Chelan County Superior Court.
	

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