California Rules of Court 2024

Rule 3.830. Arbitration not pursuant to rules

These rules do not prohibit the parties to any civil case or proceeding from entering into arbitration agreements under part 3, title 9 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Neither the ADR committee nor the ADR administrator may take any part in the conduct of an arbitration under an agreement not in conformity with these rules except that the administrator may, upon joint request of the parties, furnish the parties to the agreement with a randomly selected list of at least three names of members of the appropriate panel of arbitrators.

Rule 3.830 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1617 effective July 1, 1976; previously amended effective January 1, 2004.

Division 8, Alternative Dispute Resolution-Chapter 3, General Rules Relating to Mediation of Civil Cases-Article 1, Procedures for All Court Mediation Programs; adopted effective July 1, 2011.