Pennsylvania § 3321 Establishment of community courts

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 3321 — Establishment of community courts

Pennsylvania § 3321

JurisdictionPennsylvania

Title 42JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE

PartPART III

Ch. 33DISCIPLINE, REMOVAL AND RETIREMENT

Subch.ESTABLISHMENT AND DISCONTINUANCE OF COURTS

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Bluebook

42 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3321 (2026).

Text

(a)General rule.--In a judicial district which establishes a community court, a person serving as a magisterial district judge at such time:

(1)may complete his term exercising the jurisdiction provided or prescribed by law and with the compensation provided by or pursuant to statute; and

(2)upon completion of his term, his office is abolished and no judicial function of the kind theretofore exercised by a magisterial district judge shall thereafter be exercised other than by the community court.

(b)Philadelphia.--If a community court is established in the City and County of Philadelphia:

(1)The judges of the Philadelphia Municipal Court shall become judges of the Community Court of Philadelphia County and their tenure shall not be otherwise affected.

(2)The office of judge of t

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(a) General rule.--In a judicial district which establishes a community court, a person serving as a magisterial district judge at such time:

(1) may complete his term exercising the jurisdiction provided or prescribed by law and with the compensation provided by or pursuant to statute; and

(2) upon completion of his term, his office is abolished and no judicial function of the kind theretofore exercised by a magisterial district judge shall thereafter be exercised other than by the community court.

(b) Philadelphia.--If a community court is established in the City and County of Philadelphia:

(1) The judges of the Philadelphia Municipal Court shall become judges of the Community Court of Philadelphia County and their tenure shall not be otherwise affected.

(2) The office of judge of the Traffic Court of Philadelphia is abolished effective upon the establishment of the community court.

(3) No jurisdiction of the kind theretofore exercised exclusively by the municipal and traffic courts shall thereafter be exercised other than by the community court.

Legislative History

(Nov. 30, 2004, P.L.1618, No.207, eff. 60 days) 2004 Amendment.Act 207 amended subsec. (a). See section 29 of Act 207 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to construction of law. Traffic Court of Philadelphia.Section 22 of Act 142 of 1976 provided that, in the event of the establishment of a community court in the City and County of Philadelphia prior to the expiration of the current term of office of a judge of the Traffic Court of Philadelphia holding office on the effective date of Act 142, the status of such judge shall be determined under subsection (z) of section 16, Schedule to Article V of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, adopted April 23, 1968, and not by the provisions of section 3321(b). References in Text.The Traffic Court of Philadelphia, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), was abolished by Joint Resolution No.2 of 2016. Cross References.Section 3321 is referred to in sections 1102, 3131 of this title.