PRINTER'S NO. 97

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 88 Session of 1983


        INTRODUCED BY MAIALE, SALVATORE, O'DONNELL AND BELOFF,
           JANUARY 31, 1983

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 31, 1983

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 42 (Judicial and Judiciary Procedure) of the
     2     Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for the
     3     temporary assignment of Philadelphia Municipal Court judges.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     7  Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
     8  § 4124.  Assignment of Philadelphia Municipal Court judges.
     9     (a)  General rule.--Subject to general rules, any judge may
    10  be temporarily assigned to another court and may there hear and
    11  determine any matter with like effect as if duly commissioned to
    12  sit in that other court.
    13     (b)  Senior judges.--A senior judge who has not been defeated
    14  for reelection or suspended or removed from office and who has
    15  served an aggregate of four years as an elected judge may, with
    16  his consent, be assigned on temporary judicial service pursuant
    17  to subsection (a).
    18     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
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