PRINTER'S NO. 656
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
658
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, MENSCH, BREWSTER, RAFFERTY, PILEGGI,
SCHWANK, VULAKOVICH, VANCE AND KITCHEN, MARCH 31, 2015
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 31, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in protection from abuse, further
providing for arrest for violation of order.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6113(c) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 6113. Arrest for violation of order.
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(c) Procedure following arrest.--Subsequent to an arrest,
the defendant shall be taken by the police officer or sheriff
without unnecessary delay before [the] a court in the judicial
district where the contempt is alleged to have occurred[. When
that court is unavailable, the police officer or sheriff shall
convey the defendant to a magisterial district judge designated
as appropriate by local rules of court or, in the city of
Pittsburgh, to a magistrate of the Pittsburgh Magistrates Court
or, in counties of the first class, to the appropriate hearing
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officer. For purposes of procedure relating to arraignments for
arrest for violation of an order issued under this chapter, the
judges of Pittsburgh Magistrates Court shall be deemed to be
magisterial district judges.] for the purpose of conducting a
preliminary arraignment. The hearing officer may be a judge or
magisterial district judge or, in a county of the first class,
hearing officer.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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