Service of Electronic Documents

(a) Applicability. Electronic Service of documents is limited to those documents permitted by court rule to be served by mail or facsimile transmission. Subpoenas, summonses and complaints, petitions or other documents that must be hand delivered or served in person with a summons shall not be served electronically. All discovery on a case shall be electronically served using the EFS except when discovery is of a type which does not lend itself to 5 Revised September 2023 electronic service (either because it consists of non-conforming documents or is too voluminous), in which case conventional service shall be used. (b) Consent to Electronic Service. Upon the initiation of a case and/r upon submis- sion of an entry of appearance in a matter, Registered Users are deemed to consent to receive Electronic Service of all documents through the EFS. (c) Service Upon Registered Users. A party may accomplish service on another Registered User by utilizing the Electronic Service function of the EFS. The trans- mission of an e-mail through the EFS that contains the link to the document being served shall constitute service of the filed document(s). (d) Service on Nonregistered Users. The party filing a document must serve non- registered users by Conventional Service and must submit proof of such service to the court. (e) Certificate of Service. All documents filed using the EFS shall include a certif- icate of service stating that the document has been filed electronically and that it is available for viewing or downloading from the EFS. The certificate of service must identify the manner in which the service on each party was accomplished. The cer- tificate of service may be in the following form: CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that, on the day of , : � I filed and served this document through the electronic filing system on the following: _________________________________________. The document electronically filed and served is available for viewing and/or down- loading from the Rhode Island Judiciary’s Electronic Filing System. � I served this document through the electronic filing system on the follow- ing: __________________________________________________________. The document electronically served is available for viewing and/or downloading from the Rhode Island Judiciary’s Electronic Filing System. � I mailed or � hand-delivered this document to the attorney for the opposing party and/or the opposing party if self-represented, whose name is at the following address __________ _____________________________________________________________. /s/ NAME 6 Revised September 2023 Rule 6.1 eNotification – (a) Applicability. eNotification messages are automatically generated and transmitted by the CMS upon the entry of a docketable event or the scheduling of a hearing in a given case and are sent to the email address on file with the Supreme Court attorney registration. All attorneys who have filed an entry of appearance in a case will receive all eNotification messages generated for that case. (b) Consent to eNotification. Upon the initiation of a case and/or upon submission of an entry of appearance in a matter, attorneys are deemed to consent to receive all eNotification messages applicable to that matter through email. (c) Not Official Notice. eNotification messages to attorneys are for informational purposes only and do not constitute official notice of the court. All attorneys remain obligated under the Usage Agreement, the Rhode Island Rules of Professional Con- duct, and/or other applicable rules to remain abreast of developments in each case to which they are a party, and to keep their contact information, including email ad- dresses, up to date at all times. No party may rely upon the failure to receive an eNotification message to assert lack of notice of a given event, nor may the receipt or lack of receipt of an eNotification message be used by a party in the prosecution or defense of an argument in any proceeding before any court. (d) Not Official Court Record. eNotification messages do not comprise any part of the official court record of any case and will not be maintained in the CMS or elsewhere.