(1) The title of these Rules is Harlan Circuit Practice and Procedure Rules. They may be cited as such, or by the abbreviation “HCPR.”

(2) These Rules govern procedure and practice in all actions, civil and criminal, in the 26^th Judicial Circuit in so far as said Rules do not conflict with the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure; the Kentucky Rules of Criminal Procedure; the Court Practice and Procedure Rules, Cumberland Region of Judicial Circuits, applicable generally to all individual circuits in said region; the Kentucky Rules of Evidence; special statutory proceedings, in which the procedural requirements of the statute(s) shall prevail over any inconsistent procedures set forth in Rules; or with any statute or other law of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or the United States, at any time legally adopted, in which event any such statute, law, rule or order shall at all times prevail.