Expiration of Time Limitations;

Counting Days; Hours of Operation (Amended Oct. 18, 2016, to take effect Jan. 1, 2017.) In determining the last day for filing any docu- ments, the last day shall, and the first day shall not, be counted. Time shall be counted by calen- dar, not working, days. When the last day of any limitation of time for filing any document under these rules or an order of the court falls on a day when the office of the clerk of the trial court or of the appellate clerk is closed, the document may be filed on the next day when such office is open. The appellate clerk’s office shall be open from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. on weekdays, with the exception of legal holidays and closures for exi- gent circumstances. The window at the appellate clerk’s office shall be open from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. From 4:30 p.m. until 5 p.m., paper briefs and paper documents filed by counsel of record who have received an exemption from the elec- tronic filing requirements pursuant to Section 60-8, shall be placed in the lobby of the appellate clerk’s office. All submissions placed in the lobby shall be considered filed as of that date. Upon review, the appellate clerk may return any non- compliant submission pursuant to Section 62-7 (a). A document that is electronically received by the appellate clerk’s office for filing after 5 p.m. on a day in which that office was open or is elec- tronically received by that office for filing at any time on a day in which that office is closed, shall be deemed filed on the next business day that office is open. If a party is unable to electronically file a document because the court’s electronic filing system is nonoperational for thirty consecu- tive minutes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. or for any period of time from 3 to 5 p.m. on the day on which the electronic filing is attempted, and such day is the last day for filing the document, the document shall be deemed to be timely filed if received by the appellate clerk’s office on the next business day the electronic filing system is operational. (P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 4010.) (Amended Sept. 16, 2015, to take effect Jan. 1, 2016; amended Oct. 18, 2016, to take effect Jan. 1, 2017.) TECHNICAL CHANGE: In the third paragraph, a time con- vention was updated.