RULE N1301. SCOPE.
All civil cases where the amount in controversy (exclusive of interest and costs) shall be Fifty Thousand ($50,000) Dollars or less, except those involving title to real estate, shall first be submitted to a Board of Arbitrators in accordance with Section 7361 of the Judicial Code, 42 Pa. C.S. §7361. The amount in controversy shall be determined from the pleadings. The Court may of its own motion or upon the motion of any parties strike from the trial list and certify for arbitration any case which should have been arbitrated in the first instance.
Amended December 16, 1992; effective March 1, 1993.