N.D.R.Ct.RULE 2.2. FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION
(a) Filing.
Papers required to be filed with the clerk of the trial court may be filed by facsimile transmission, if the clerk of court has a bond-paper facsimile receiving machine available in the courthouse. Filing is complete when the facsimile transmission is received by the clerk. A document received by the clerk's office in whole or in part after normal business hours must be processed on the next court day and deemed received at the opening of business on that day. The filed facsimile is the original.
Within 5 days after the clerk of court has received the transmission, the party filing by facsimile transmission shall forward the filing fee, if any, to the clerk of the court.
Upon failure to comply with the requirements of this rule, the court in which the action is pending may make such orders as are just, including but not limited to, an order striking pleadings or parts thereof, staying further proceedings until compliance is complete, or dismissing the action, proceeding, or any party thereof.
(b) Issuance of Orders or Warrants.
Facsimile transmissions may be used for the issuance of all orders and warrants and have the same effect as the original. Documents supporting an order or warrant, including affidavits, must be delivered promptly to the clerk of court for the county where the request or application for the order or warrant was made.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Rule 2.2 was adopted effective January 1, 1995; amended effective March 1, 2002; March 1, 2003; ________________.
The rule is not intended to govern appeals to the Supreme Court of North Dakota. See N.D.R.App.P. 25(a) and N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 31.
Rule 2.2 was amended, effective March 1, 2002, to delete the facsimile transmission fee.
Subdivision (b) Rule 2.2 was amended, effective March 1, 2003, to delete the requirement that the original order or warrant be delivered to the clerk of the court.
Rule 2.2 was amended, effective ______________, to delete a provision on filing by facsimile transmission. Filing by facsimile transmission is a form of electronic filing and is governed by the Supreme Court's rules and orders on the filing of electronic documents.
Sources: Joint Procedure Committee Minutes of _______________; April 25-26, 2002, pages 15-16; September 28-29, 2000, pages 7-8; January 26-27, 1995, pages 2-3; September 23-24, 1993, pages 17-19; April 29-30, 1993, pages 11-16; November 7-8, 1991, page 3; October 25-26, 1990, pages 9-10.
Cross Reference: N.D.R.App.P. 25(a) (Filing and Service); N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 31 (Facsimile Transmission); N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. Order 14 (Electronic Filing Pilot Project for the Supreme Court); N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. Order 16 (Electronic Filing Pilot Project for the District Courts).