Bryan Municipal Court, Ohio Electronic Filing Rules

CRITICAL

Fax filings must be transmitted through facsimile equipment operated by the Clerk and may not be sent directly to the court for filing.

Fax filings may NOT be sent directly to the court for filing but may only be transmitted directly through facsimile equipment operated by the Clerk of Court.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Document

The Clerk must reject a document filed without a Document Description Form or with an incomplete form and notify the filer by email.

In the event of a document is electronical y filed without or with an incomplete Document Description Form, the Clerk shall reject said document and the Clerk shall notify the filer via electronic mail of said rejection.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Pleading or other document

A faxed document is the effective original filing; the filer need not submit the source document but must keep it available with the required signatures and fax cover-sheet source copy if the Court requests it.

(8) A document filed by fax shall be accepted as the effective original filing. The person making a fax filing need not file any source document with the Clerk of Court but must, however, maintain in his or her records. Upon request of the Court the filer must have available for production the source document filed by fax, with original signatures as otherwise required under the applicable rules, together with the source copy of the facsimile cover sheet used for the subject filing.

CRITICAL

No person may use another person’s electronic-filing password or allow another person to use it.

No person shall utilize, or allow another person to utilize, the password of another in connection with electronic filing.

CRITICAL

An attorney may authorize only an employee or a retained service provider to electronically file on the attorney’s behalf.

No attorney shall authorize anyone to electronical y file on that attorney's behalf, other than his/her employee or a service provider retained to assist in the electronic filing.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Court communication

Email sent to the Court is not a legal communication and will not be received, ruled upon, or entered into the court record.

Any communication sent to the Court by electronic mail is not considered a legal communication of any form and wil not be received or ruled upon by a judge or entered into the court record.

WARNING

Applies to

All documents

The Court will provide electronic filing for documents in all case categories unless the Judge restricts it.

The Court will provide an electronic filing service to all court users for all documents in any category of cases unless otherwise restricted by the Judge.

WARNING

An electronic filing by an attorney, an authorized filer, or an unrepresented party constitutes that attorney’s or party’s signature under Ohio Civil Rule 11.

The electronic filing of a document by an attorney, or by another under the authorization of said attorney, or by a party not represented by an attorney shall constitute a signature of that attorney or party under Ohio Civil Rule 11.

WARNING

Anyone who elects to file electronically bears the risk of delays, signal interruptions, and document readability problems that may prevent proper filing.

Any attorney, party, or other person who elects to file any document electronical y shall be responsible for any delay, disruption, interruption of the electronic signals, and readability of the document, and accepts the ful risk that the document may not be properly filed with the Clerk as a result.

INFO

Applies to

Citation

The court authorizes the use and filing of citations produced electronically.

The use and filing of a ticket produced by computer or other electronic means is hereby authorized by Bryan Municipal Court.

INFO

Applies to

Pleadings and other documents

Pleadings and other documents may be filed by fax with the Clerk at 419-636-3417, subject to the stated conditions and applicable proceedings.

(A) As provided for under Civil Rule 5 (E), Civil Rule 73 (J), Criminal Rule 12 (8) and App R 13 (A), the Court will allow filing of pleadings and other documents through the Clerk of Court by facsimile transmission to 419-636-3417 subject to the following conditions: 1. The rules apply to the civil, small claims, criminal, traffic and appellate proceedings in the Bryan Municipal Court.