PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1972, 2868, 2890 PRINTER'S NO. 2978
No. 1579 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY RAPPAPORT AND SPENCER, OCTOBER 12, 1983
AS RE-REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MAY 15, 1984
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the 2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for additional 3 judges on the Commonwealth Court and for additional judges in 4 the sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, 5 nineteenth, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, THIRTY-FIRST, <-- 6 thirty-second, forty-second and FORTY-SIXTH, fifty-first AND <-- 7 FIFTY-THIRD judicial districts. 8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 9 hereby enacts as follows: 10 Section 1. Sections 561 and 911 of Title 42 of the 11 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read: 12 § 561. Commonwealth Court. 13 The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania shall consist of 14 [nine] 11 judges. 15 § 911. Courts of common pleas. 16 (a) General rule.--There shall be one court of common pleas 17 for each judicial district of this Commonwealth consisting of 18 the following number of judges: 19 Number of
1 Judicial District Judges 2 First 81 3 Second 6 4 Third 5 5 Fourth 1 6 Fifth 39 7 Sixth [6] 8 8 Seventh [10] 11 9 Eighth 2 10 Ninth [3] 4 11 Tenth [8] 9 12 Eleventh 7 13 Twelfth 6 14 Thirteenth 1 15 Fourteenth 4 16 Fifteenth [7] 8 17 Sixteenth 2 18 Seventeenth [1] 2 19 Eighteenth 1 20 Nineteenth [6] 7 21 Twentieth 1 22 Twenty-first 5 23 Twenty-second 1 24 Twenty-third [6] 7 25 Twenty-fourth [3] 4 26 Twenty-fifth 1 27 Twenty-sixth 1 28 Twenty-seventh 5 29 Twenty-eighth 1 30 Twenty-ninth 3 19830H1579B2978 - 2 -
1 Thirtieth 2 2 Thirty-first [6] 7 <-- 3 Thirty-second [14] 15 4 Thirty-third 1 5 Thirty-fourth 1 6 Thirty-fifth 3 7 Thirty-sixth 5 8 Thirty-seventh 1 9 Thirty-eighth 15 10 Thirty-ninth 2 11 Fortieth 2 12 Forty-first 1 13 Forty-second [1] 2 <-- 14 Forty-third 2 15 Forty-fourth 1 16 Forty-fifth 5 17 Forty-sixth [1] 2 <-- 18 Forty-seventh 4 19 Forty-eighth 1 20 Forty-ninth 2 21 Fiftieth 3 22 Fifty-first [1] 2 23 Fifty-second 3 24 Fifty-third [2] 3 <-- 25 Fifty-fourth 1 26 Fifty-fifth 1 27 Fifty-sixth 1 28 Fifty-seventh 1 29 Fifty-eighth 1 30 Fifty-ninth 1 19830H1579B2978 - 3 -
1 Sixtieth 1 2 (b) Single county districts.--In single county judicial 3 districts the court of common pleas of the district shall be 4 known as the "Court of Common Pleas of (the respective) County." 5 (c) Multicounty districts.--In multicounty judicial 6 districts the court of common pleas of the district shall be 7 known as the "Court of Common Pleas of the (respective) Judicial 8 District." There shall be a separate branch of the court in each 9 county comprising the judicial district. 10 Section 2. The vacancies created by the new judgeships added 11 by section 1 of this act shall be filled by election. 12 Section 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 1985. J3L42JAM/19830H1579B2978 - 4 -