Process server in Colusa County

No. Our offices are the ones on our contact page: two in Los Angeles, and one each in Irvine, Glendale and Sacramento. Colusa County work is run from those. That changes nothing the court or the statutes require, and it is not a promise about when an attempt happens. Each Colusa proof comes back on a signed POS-010 that lists the notice of status conference among the documents served and records every attempt, the unanswered knocks as well as the one that worked.

Yes, in a general civil case. When the summons issues, Colusa’s Local Rule 3.02 has the clerk set a status conference no sooner than 120 days and no later than 130 days out, and write that date and the assigned judge’s name onto the pleadings. Local Rule 3.03 then requires the plaintiff to serve every named defendant with the summons, the complaint and the notice of status conference. A cross-complainant serves the notice on each cross-defendant with the cross-complaint. All parties have to appear at the conference under Local Rule 3.04, and nothing needs to be filed for it.

Within 60 days after the complaint is filed. Colusa’s Local Rule 3.03 says so for the summons, complaint and notice of status conference, and California Rules of Court rule 3.110(b) sets the same 60 days statewide; a defendant added by an amended complaint has 30 days from that filing. The outer limit is Code of Civil Procedure section 583.210: three years from filing to serve, then 60 days to file the proof. Local Rule 3.05(A) moves the service and default timelines back 180 days in a case filed only to toll an uninsured motorist claim, if counsel’s declaration is filed 15 calendar days before the status conference.

No. The court’s eFiling page says eFiling is permissive, not required, for all litigants, and it covers initial and later filings in every civil case, limited and unlimited. Papers can still go in by mail or in person at the clerk’s office during business hours. Filers pick any electronic filing service provider; the court endorses none. Some items cannot be eFiled at all, among them bonds and undertakings, subpoenaed documents, trial exhibits, documents lodged provisionally under seal and anything a judicial officer orders filed at the clerk’s office. Filing on the day of a hearing is allowed, but the court warns it may not reach the judge in time.

Not directly. The court’s civil page says it has no line for fax filings, and Local Rule 5.13(C) bars sending documents for filing to any court or clerk fax machine. A faxed document has to reach the filing window, which is what a fax filing agency does under California Rules of Court rule 2.303: it prepares the papers, carries them to the court, files them and pays the fee. The words By fax go on the first page just below the title. Wills, codicils, bonds and undertakings cannot be faxed, and neither can a document the court issues, such as a summons or a writ of execution.

The original plus two copies of every document presented for filing, according to the court’s self-help page, which also asks for the forms to be signed and dated before they are copied. Handwritten Judicial Council forms are accepted if clearly printed in blue or black ink. For an endorsed copy the court wants a copy of the whole document being filed; it will not endorse a fact sheet. Copies from a file cost $0.50 a page, with $40 more for certification, and a request by mail goes in with a self-addressed stamped envelope and a check or money order.

Section 415.20 as it reads now writes no number into the statute, so a court weighs the effort shown on the record. The Colusa County Sheriff’s own pages describe its practice for the papers it serves: attempts on two or three different dates and times on its service time page, and a minimum of three attempts on different days at different times in its civil service guide. From January 1, 2027, the version of section 415.20 enacted by AB 747 treats three good-faith attempts, on three different days at three different times, as reasonable diligence. A record built that way meets all three descriptions.

A deputy sheriff. The Colusa County Sheriff’s civil service guide lists evictions among the jobs only a deputy can do, and section 715.020 gives execution of a writ of possession to the levying officer, who serves an occupant, or posts the writ and serves the judgment debtor, and removes the occupants if they have not left within five days. The request goes to the Civil Unit with a letter of instruction signed and dated by the plaintiff or the plaintiff’s attorney; the Sheriff says no other person can sign it. Serving the summons and complaint earlier in the case is work a registered process server can do.

Yes, for the kinds of property listed in section 699.080, which include deposit accounts, safe-deposit boxes, accounts receivable and growing crops. The statute sets conditions: before the levy, a copy of the writ and the fee under Government Code section 26721 are deposited with the levying officer, and within five court days afterwards the writ, the proof of the levy and written instructions are filed with that officer. Skip either step and the levy is ineffective. The Colusa County Sheriff’s guide puts it in its own terms: a registered process server still opens a levy file with the sheriff and pays the sheriff’s fees.

Colusa’s Local Rule 3.07 sets it out. The application is heard when the court is available, with at least 24 hours’ notice to the other side, and it goes in with the filing fee. It needs a written declaration saying whether the other party has a lawyer, whether that party was contacted and agreed to the order, and why the matter cannot wait for regular notice. The court decides on the papers whether the application is adequate and may then allow more argument. The rule, part of the local rules the court revised in 2015, has the application filed with the fee at the clerk’s office.

Under Local Rule 3.10, demurrers, motions, trial settings and pretrial conferences are set in Department 1 on a Monday or Tuesday at 9:00 a.m., depending on case type. The court’s civil page says it offers no tentative rulings, so appearances are needed at law and motion hearings. A party who will not appear, or wants the matter taken off calendar, gives the court two court days’ notice. For a telephone appearance the 2015 rules name an outside vendor and a request five court days ahead. A continuance asked for less than five court days before the hearing needs good cause.

Colusa’s Local Rule 2.09(D) adopts the statewide goals for unlawful detainer: 90 percent of cases disposed of within 30 days of filing and all of them within 45. The tenant’s side of the clock is section 1167, ten days to respond after service, not counting Saturdays, Sundays or the judicial holidays on the court’s list. Under Local Rule 5.02, attorney fees in a residential eviction will not normally exceed $300 on a default or $400 when the tenant answered but the case went uncontested at trial. Where other occupants may be living there, a prejudgment claim of right to possession is served with the summons under section 415.46.