PRINTER'S NO. 763
No. 710 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY SCANLON AND HART, MARCH 23, 1993
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 23, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for arrests for
3 violation of protection orders.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6113(c) and (d) of Title 23 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 6113. Arrest for violation of order.
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10 (c) Procedure following arrest.--Subsequent to an arrest,
11 the defendant shall be taken by the police officer without
12 unnecessary delay before the court in the judicial district
13 where the contempt is alleged to have occurred. When that court
14 is unavailable, the police officer shall convey the defendant to
15 a district justice designated as appropriate by local rules of
16 court or, in counties of the first class, to the appropriate
17 hearing officer or, in the City of Pittsburgh, to a judge of the
18 Pittsburgh Magistrates Court.
1 (d) Preliminary arraignment.--The defendant shall be
2 afforded a preliminary arraignment without unnecessary delay.
3 For the purpose of this subsection, judges of the Pittsburgh
4 Magistrates Court shall be deemed to be district justices.
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6 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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