Opinion ID: 1861044
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Heading Rank: 17

Heading: Uniform Case Numbering System.

Text: (1) The clerk of the circuit court and the clerk of the county court, where that separate office exists, shall utilize the Uniform Case Numbering System. The uniform case number shall appear upon the case file, the docket and minute books, and upon the complaint. (2) The office of the state courts administrator shall distribute to the respective clerks of the circuit and county courts appropriate instructions regarding the nature and use of the Uniform Case Numbering System. (c) Major Statutory Offense. Law enforcement officers, at the time of the filing of a complaint with the clerk of court, shall designate whether the most serious charge on the complaint is a felony or a misdemeanor. The state attorney or his designee, at the time of the filing of an original information or an original indictment with the clerk of court, shall designate whether the most serious offense on the information or the indictment is a felony or misdemeanor. Complaints, original informations and original indictments on which the most serious charge is a felony shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court. (d) Ordinance Violations. In those cases when the state attorney has the responsibility for the prosecution of county or municipal ordinance violations, where such ordinances have state statutory equivalents, the state attorney or his designee shall set forth at the top of the face of the accusatory instrument the exact statute number of the single most serious offense charged. (e) Information or Indictment After County Court Proceedings Begun. When action in a criminal case has been initiated in county court, and subsequently the state attorney files a direct information, or the grand jury indicts the defendant, the state attorney or his designee shall notify the clerk without delay.