§ 706.100.Rule For Practice and Procedure In Proceedings

This section hands the Judicial Council a wide grant of authority: it may set the practice and procedure rules that govern wage garnishment proceedings under this chapter, filling gaps that the statutes themselves leave open. That authority covers matters like how documents get filed and how hearings are scheduled, working alongside whatever the Legislature has already spelled out in the sections that follow.

The grant has one carve-out. It doesn't reach the state's own administrative hearings for collecting tax debts under Article 4, beginning at § 706.070. Those hearings run on rules the tax-collecting agencies set for themselves, separate from the court-centered procedure the Judicial Council oversees for everything else in this chapter.

In practice, this section is why California's wage garnishment forms and procedural rules look uniform statewide. Articles 5 through 7 rely on rules the Judicial Council adopts under this authority to fill in the mechanics of service, exemption claims, and administration.