Rule text
A copy of the summons and petition shall be served together except when service is by publication.
Notes
Committee Note - 1974
The source is prior Rule 54.04. A substantial part of the prior rule was deleted because official forms make the deleted language unnecessary.
See Civil Procedure Forms which follow these Rules
Compare: Rule 4(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
(Adopted January 19, 1973, effective September 1, 1973.)