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Posted: August 16, 2024
URCrP017.5. Notice of repeal for Utah Rules of Criminal Procedure 17.5 effective September 1, 2024. Posted for public comment.
URJP029B. Notice of repeal of Utah Rules of Juvenile Procedure 29B effective September 1, 2024. Posted for public comment.
URJP037B. Notice of repeal of Utah Rules of Juvenile Procedure 37B effective September 1, 2024. Posted for public comment.
Posted: January 29, 2016
URJP 029B. Hearings with remote conferencing from a different location. New. Provides that a judge, attorney, or party may appear by remote conferencing for certain delinquency hearings.
URJP 037B. Hearings with remote conferencing from a different location. New. Provides that a judge, attorney, or party may appear by remote conferencing for certain child welfare hearings.
Posted: June 25, 2015
The following rules provide that court business and hearings may be conducted remotely by contemporaneous transmission from a different location, as long as certain standards are met.
CJA 03-0302. Clerk of the Court. Amend.
CJA 04-0106. Electronic conferencing. Amend.
CJA 09-0105. Justice Court hours. Amend.
URCP 043. Evidence. Amend.
URCrP 017.5 Hearings with contemporaneous transmission from a different location. New.
URJP 029B. Hearings with contemporaneous transmission from a different location. New.
URJP 037B. Hearings with contemporaneous transmission from a different location. New.
Posted: October 28, 2014
URJP 002. Applicability of Rules of Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure. Amend. Amends the rule to replace the term “permanent deprivation of parental rights” with “termination of parental rights.”
URJP 023A. Hearing on conditions of Section 78A-6-702; bind over to district court. Amend. Amends the rule to comport with statutory changes to 78A-6-702 enacted following the 2014 legislative general session. This rule is receiving a second comment period to correct the failure to strike a clause in paragraph (e) prior to sending the rule out for comment.
URJP 029B. Hearings with contemporaneous transmission from a different location. New. Creates a new rule addressing remote access to court hearings in delinquency proceedings or proceedings under Section 78A-6-702 or Section 78A-6-703.
URJP 037B. Hearings with contemporaneous transmission from a different location. New. Creates a new rule addressing remote access to court hearings in abuse, neglect, dependency, substantiation or termination of parental rights proceedings.