Rule 33.01. 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 an objections is made to it or to a portion thereof, in which event the reasons and grounds for objection shall be stated with specificity (sic) in lieu of an answer for that portion to which an objection is made. An objection must clearly indicate whether responsive information is being withheld (sic) on the basis of that objection. 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 37.01 with respect to any objection to or other failure to answer an interrogatory.

[As amended July 1, 1979 and order entered January 16, 2020 effective July 1, 2020.]

Click here for Advisory Commission Comments to Rules 33.01-33.03.

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