PRINTER'S NO. 4169
No. 3042 Session of 1994
INTRODUCED BY HANNA, SATHER, BAKER, DEMPSEY, TRUE, ROONEY,
STABACK, PRESTON, GEIST, CARONE, SCHULER, FAJT, COLAFELLA,
YOUNGBLOOD, BELFANTI AND MERRY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1994
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1994
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
3 powers of district justices.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1513 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1513. Powers of district justices.
9 Every district justice shall have power to issue every lawful
10 process to or to be served or enforced by system and related
11 personnel and to make such lawful orders as his official
12 business may require. A district justice may take affidavits and
13 acknowledgments outside his magisterial district but within this
14 Commonwealth. A district justice may suspend the driver's
15 license of a person who fails to pay a fine which the district
16 justice imposed and shall, if he does suspend a license, notify
17 the Bureau of Motor Vehicles of the suspension.
18 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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