Service of process: time.

Existing law authorizes personal service upon a party in a civil action, if no specific provision is made, by leaving the notice or other papers at the party's residence, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. with a person of not less than 18 years of age. This bill would, until January 1, 2014, instead require the first attempt to personally serve a summons or complaint initiating an action to be made between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.