PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 2027, 2040, 2258, PRINTER'S NO. 2297 2287
No. 1452 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, CONTI, TOMLINSON, COSTA, KUKOVICH, KITCHEN, LEMMOND AND ROBBINS, JUNE 4, 2002
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, OCTOBER 8, 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] 8
17 Fourth 1
1 Fifth 41 2 Sixth 9 3 Seventh [11] 13 4 Eighth 3 5 Ninth 5 6 Tenth 11 7 Eleventh 9 8 Twelfth 8 9 Thirteenth 2 10 Fourteenth 5 11 Fifteenth 13 12 Sixteenth 3 13 Seventeenth 2 14 Eighteenth 1 15 Nineteenth 12 16 Twentieth 1 17 Twenty-first 6 18 Twenty-second 1 19 Twenty-third 12 20 Twenty-fourth 4 21 Twenty-fifth 2 22 Twenty-sixth 2 23 Twenty-seventh 5 24 Twenty-eighth 2 25 Twenty-ninth 5 26 Thirtieth 3 27 Thirty-first 10 28 Thirty-second 18 <-- 29 THIRTY-SECOND [18] 19 <-- 30 Thirty-third 2 20020S1452B2297 - 2 -
1 Thirty-fourth 1 2 Thirty-fifth [3] 4 3 Thirty-sixth 6 4 Thirty-seventh 2 5 Thirty-eighth 20 6 Thirty-ninth 4 7 Fortieth [2] 3 8 Forty-first 2 9 Forty-second 2 10 Forty-third [5] 6 11 Forty-fourth 1 12 Forty-fifth 7 13 Forty-sixth 2 14 Forty-seventh 5 15 Forty-eighth 1 16 Forty-ninth 3 17 Fiftieth 5 18 Fifty-first 3 19 Fifty-second 4 20 Fifty-third 4 21 Fifty-fourth 1 22 Fifty-fifth 1 23 Fifty-sixth 2 24 Fifty-seventh 2 25 Fifty-eighth 1 26 Fifty-ninth 1 27 Sixtieth 1 28 * * * 29 Section 2. The provisions of 42 Pa.C.S. § 3135 shall not be 30 applicable to the selection of judges for the judgeships created 20020S1452B2297 - 3 -
1 in the amendment of 42 Pa.C.S. § 911(a). The new judgeship for 2 the 3rd district added by the amendment of 42 Pa.C.S. § 911(a) 3 shall be created on January 5, 2006 JANUARY 2, 2006, and shall <-- 4 be initially filled at the 2005 election. The new judgeships for 5 the 7th, 32ND, 35th and 40th, 40TH AND 43RD districts added by <-- 6 the amendment of 42 Pa.C.S. § 911(a) shall be created on January 7 5, 2004, and shall be initially filled at the 2003 municipal 8 election. 9 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately. E22L42DMS/20020S1452B2297 - 4 -