California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 2 - Agricultural Labor Relations Board › Chapter 1.5 - General Rules of Pleading and Practice › Section 20169 - Provisions for Use of Electronic Filing and Service of Documents

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Parties
				represented by counsel or other representative shall file and serve documents
				electronically. Parties who are not represented by counsel or other
				representative are not required to file electronically but may do so; however,
				by electronically filing a document in a proceeding before the Board an
				unrepresented party agrees to file all further documents in the proceeding
				electronically and agrees to accept service of documents in the case
				electronically. The Board or any of its agents shall file and serve all
				documents electronically, except that parties who are not represented by
				counsel or other representative and who have not electronically filed any
				document with the Board shall be served by other non-electronic means. The
				following rules apply to electronic filings in Board proceedings:
(1) "Electronic filing" refers to the act of
				filing a document with the Board via the "[email protected]" address. A link to
				this address is available on the Board's website at
https://www.alrb.ca.gov/e-file/
.
				The subject line of an email to the Board's efiling address shall state the
				name of the case and case number, if one has been assigned, and the title of
				the document being submitted for electronic filing.
(2) Parties may file documents electronically
				at any time. However, documents received after 5:00 p.m. on a business day, or
				at any time on a nonbusiness day, will be deemed filed on the next regular
				business day.
(3) All documents
				electronically filed must be in portable document format (PDF) and be text
				searchable. When possible, electronic bookmarking should be used for the first
				page of the document and all tables, sections, headings, and subheadings within
				a document.
(4) Electronically
				filed documents must be paginated consecutively using arabic numerals only (1,
				2, 3, etc.) beginning with the first page so that the document pagination
				matches the electronic page counter for the electronic document. The caption
				page, table of contents, table of authorities, and any proof of service
				included within an electronically filed document will not be counted by the
				Board in determining whether a filing complies with the page number limits set
				forth in sections
				20282 or
				20370.
(5) Documents filed electronically shall not
				exceed 25 MB in file size. Documents larger than 25 MB in file size may be
				split into multiple files to be submitted separately. Pagination in documents
				that must be split into multiple files shall remain consecutive, and the page
				numbering in the second part of a file divided into two parts shall continue
				where the page numbering of the first part stopped.
(6) The file name of any document
				electronically filed must be in the following format: Year (followed by a dash)
				month (followed by a dash) day (followed by one space) followed by the title of
				the document from the caption on the face page of the document, which may be
				abbreviated using easily identifiable abbreviations. For example, a document
				filed by email on March 12, 2016, would be named "2016-03-12 Respondent's
				Exceptions to the Decision of the Administrative Law Judge," or "2016-03-12
				Resp Excepts to ALJ Dec."