A. The City Court shall have a seal as devised and adopted by the Chief Presiding Judge of the Court. The seal shall be kept by the Clerk and Chief Presiding Judge of the Court. The city court also shall have an electronic seal as devised and adopted by the Chief Presiding Judge. The electronic seal may be affixed to any electronic submission or printout from the Court’s official electronic document management system. The electronic seal shall have the same weight and effect as any other authorized seal of the Court.

B. The seal of the City Court need not be affixed to any proceedings in the court except an authentication of a copy of a record or proceedings of the Court or its officers for the purpose of record or evidence in another court or place.

C. All electronically filed submissions, the filing of which is authorized by order of the Chief Presiding Judge, and the scanned images of documents filed in paper form with the Court shall be considered the original documents of record once such images have been entered into the electronic document management system of the Court.

D. Records of proceedings not entered in the Court’s electronic document management system may be authenticated by affixing the seal by impressing it on the paper or on a substance attached to the paper and capable of receiving the impression. An electronic submission or document printed from the Court’s electronic document management system that bears the Court’s electronic seal attesting to the document’s authenticity shall be considered an official record or certified copy of the original.

E. Any Court rule requiring that a document be an original, be on paper or another tangible medium, or be in writing, is satisfied by the electronic image defined as the original document by this Section. (Ord. No. G-2901, § 1; Ord. No. G-5083, § 1, 2008)