PRINTER'S NO. 2027
No. 1452 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, CONTI, TOMLINSON, COSTA, KUKOVICH, KITCHEN AND LEMMOND, JUNE 4, 2002
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JUNE 4, 2002
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the 2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the 3 number of judges of the courts of common pleas. 4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 5 hereby enacts as follows: 6 Section 1. Section 911(a) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania 7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: 8 § 911. Courts of common pleas. 9 (a) General rule.--There shall be one court of common pleas 10 for each judicial district of this Commonwealth consisting of 11 the following number of judges: 12 Number of 13 Judicial District Judges 14 First 93 15 Second 13 16 Third 7 17 Fourth 1 18 Fifth 41
1 Sixth 9
2 Seventh [11] 13
3 Eighth 3
4 Ninth 5
5 Tenth 11
6 Eleventh 9
7 Twelfth 8
8 Thirteenth 2
9 Fourteenth 5
10 Fifteenth 13
11 Sixteenth 3
12 Seventeenth 2
13 Eighteenth 1
14 Nineteenth 12
15 Twentieth 1
16 Twenty-first 6
17 Twenty-second 1
18 Twenty-third 12
19 Twenty-fourth 4
20 Twenty-fifth 2
21 Twenty-sixth 2
22 Twenty-seventh 5
23 Twenty-eighth 2
24 Twenty-ninth 5
25 Thirtieth 3
26 Thirty-first 10
27 Thirty-second 18
28 Thirty-third 2
29 Thirty-fourth 1
30 Thirty-fifth 3
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1 Thirty-sixth 6 2 Thirty-seventh 2 3 Thirty-eighth 20 4 Thirty-ninth 4 5 Fortieth 2 6 Forty-first 2 7 Forty-second 2 8 Forty-third 5 9 Forty-fourth 1 10 Forty-fifth 7 11 Forty-sixth 2 12 Forty-seventh 5 13 Forty-eighth 1 14 Forty-ninth 3 15 Fiftieth 5 16 Fifty-first 3 17 Fifty-second 4 18 Fifty-third 4 19 Fifty-fourth 1 20 Fifty-fifth 1 21 Fifty-sixth 2 22 Fifty-seventh 2 23 Fifty-eighth 1 24 Fifty-ninth 1 25 Sixtieth 1 26 * * * 27 Section 2. The provisions of 42 Pa.C.S. § 3135 shall not be 28 applicable to the selection of judges for the judgeships created 29 in the amendment of 42 Pa.C.S. § 911(a). The new judgeships for 30 the 7th district added by the amendment of 42 Pa.C.S. § 911(a) 20020S1452B2027 - 3 -
1 shall be created on January 5, 2004, and shall be initially 2 filled at the 2003 municipal election. 3 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately. E22L42DMS/20020S1452B2027 - 4 -