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NRCP Rule 33
RULE 33. INTERROGATORIES TO PARTIES
(a) Availability; Procedures for Use. Any party
may serve upon any other party written interrogatories to be answered by the
party served or, if the party served is a public or private corporation or a
partnership or association or governmental agency, by any officer or agent, who
shall furnish such information as is available to the party. Interrogatories
may, without leave of court, be served upon the plaintiff after commencement of
the action and upon any other party with or after service of the summons and
complaint upon that party.
Each interrogatory shall be answered separately and
fully in writing under oath, unless it is objected to, in which event the
reasons for objection shall be stated in lieu of an answer. The answers are to
be signed by the person making them, and the objections signed by the attorney
making them. The party upon whom the interrogatories have been served shall
serve a copy of the answers, and objections if any, within 30 days after the
service of the interrogatories, except that a defendant may serve answers or
objections within 45 days after service of the summons and complaint upon that
defendant. The court may allow a shorter or longer time. The party submitting
the interrogatories may move for an order under Rule 37(a) with respect to any
objection to or other failure to answer an interrogatory.
(b) Scope; Use at Trial. Interrogatories may
relate to any matters which can be inquired into under Rule 26(b), and the
answers may be used to the extent permitted by the rules of evidence.
An interrogatory otherwise proper is not necessarily
objectionable merely because an answer to the interrogatory involves an opinion
or contention that relates to fact or the application of law to fact, but the
court may order that such an interrogatory need not be answered until after
designated discovery has been completed or until a pretrial conference or other
later time.
(c) Option to Produce Business Records. Where
the answer to an interrogatory may be derived or ascertained from the business
records of the party upon whom the interrogatory has been served or from an
examination, audit or inspection of such business records, including a
compilation, abstract or summary thereof, and the burden of deriving or
ascertaining the answer is substantially the same for the party serving the
interrogatory as for the party served, it is a sufficient answer to such
interrogatory to specify the records from which the answer may be derived or
ascertained and to afford to the party serving the interrogatory reasonable
opportunity to examine, audit or inspect such records and to make copies,
compilations, abstracts or summaries. A specification shall be in sufficient
detail to permit the interrogating party to locate and to identify, as readily
as can the party served, the records from which the answer may be ascertained.
(d) Number of Interrogatories. No party shall
serve upon any other single party to an action more than forty (40)
interrogatories, in which subparts of interrogatories shall count as separate
interrogatories, without first obtaining a stipulation of such party to
additional interrogatories or obtaining an order of the court upon a showing of
good cause granting leave to serve a specific number of additional interrogatories.
The substance of the interrogatories shall be tailored to the needs of the
particular case.
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