§ 9-11-78.Motion days

This section opens Article 9’s housekeeping provisions with a docket-management rule: each court must establish regular times and places, at intervals frequent enough for the prompt dispatch of business, at which motions requiring notice and a hearing may be heard and disposed of. The point is predictability — lawyers and litigants should be able to count on when contested motions will get a hearing, rather than waiting on an ad hoc schedule.

The requirement bends for courts where a fixed calendar doesn’t fit local conditions, and it never restricts a judge’s broader authority. The same section preserves the judge’s power to make orders for the advancement, conduct, and hearing of actions at any time or place, on whatever notice — if any — is reasonable under the circumstances, so a regular motion-day calendar supplements rather than boxes in the court’s scheduling discretion.