(a) Purpose. The purpose of an appendix is to permit the parties to prepare and transmit copies of those portions of the record deemed necessary to an understanding of the issues presented. It may be served with any petition, brief, motion, response, or reply but shall be served as otherwise required by these rules. In any proceeding in which an appendix is required, if the court finds that the appendix is incomplete, it shall direct a party to supply the omitted parts of the appendix. No proceeding shall be determined until an opportunity to supplement the appendix has been given.
(b) Contents. The appendix shall contain an index and a conformed copy of the opinion or order to be reviewed and may contain any other portions of the record and other authorities. Asterisks should be used to indicate omissions in documents or testimony of witnesses.
(c) Format. Unless otherwise authorized by court order or court rule, the appendix shall be prepared and filed electronically with the clerk as an independent PDF file or a series of independent PDF files. When a paper appendix is authorized, it shall be separately bound or separated from the petition, brief, motion, response, or reply by a divider and appropriate tab, and the following requirements shall apply: (1) if the appendix includes documents filed before January 1991 on paper measuring 8 ½ by 14 inches, the documents should be reduced in copying to 8 ½ by 11 inches, if practicable; and (2) if reduction is impracticable, the appendix may measure 8 ½ by 14 inches, but it should be bound separately from the document that it accompanies.
