PRIOR PASSAGE – J.R. 2013-1
PRINTER'S NO. 161
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
283
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY PILEGGI, WARD, GREENLEAF, VULAKOVICH, GORDNER,
WAGNER, WHITE AND RAFFERTY, JANUARY 16, 2015
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 16, 2015
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing integrated amendments to the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, eliminating the Traffic Court
of Philadelphia.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby resolves as follows:
Section 1. The following integrated amendments to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania are proposed in accordance with
Article XI:
(1) That section 1 of Article V be amended to read:
§ 1. Unified judicial system.
The judicial power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a
unified judicial system consisting of the Supreme Court, the
Superior Court, the Commonwealth Court, courts of common pleas,
community courts, municipal [and traffic] courts in the City of
Philadelphia, such other courts as may be provided by law and
justices of the peace. All courts and justices of the peace and
their jurisdiction shall be in this unified judicial system.
(2) That the heading and subsection (c) of section 6 of
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