§ RULE 77 DISTRICT COURTS AND CLERKS

Codes > Utah Code > Utah Rules > Part X > RULE 77

RULE 77. DISTRICT COURTS AND CLERKS

    (a) District courts always open. The district courts shall be deemed always open for the purpose of filing any pleading or other  proper paper, of issuing and returning mesne and final process, and of making and directing all interlocutory motions, orders, and rules.

    (b) Trials and hearings; orders in chambers. All trials upon the merits shall be conducted in open court and so far as convenient in a regular courtroom. All other acts or proceedings may be done or conducted by a judge in chambers without the attendance of the clerk or other court officials and at any place within the state, either within or without the district; but no hearing, other than one ex parte, shall be conducted outside the county wherein the matter is pending without the consent of all the parties to the action affected thereby.

    (c) Clerk's office and orders by clerk. The clerk's office with the clerk or a deputy in attendance shall be open during business hours on all days except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. All motions and applications in the clerk's office for issuing mesne process, for issuing final process to enforce and execute judgments, for entering defaults or judgments by default, and for other proceedings which do not require allowance or order of the court are grantable of course by the clerk; but such action may be suspended or altered or rescinded by the court upon cause shown.