PRINTER'S NO. 1165
No. 1038 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY HANNA, STABACK, BELFANTI AND GEIST, MARCH 23, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 23, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
3 powers of district justices.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1513 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1513. Powers of district justices.
9 Every district justice shall have power to issue every lawful
10 process to or to be served or enforced by system and related
11 personnel and to make such lawful orders as his official
12 business may require. A district justice may take affidavits and
13 acknowledgments outside his magisterial district but within this
14 Commonwealth. A district justice may suspend the driver's
15 license of a person who fails to pay a fine which the district
16 justice imposed and shall, if the driver's license is suspended,
17 notify the Bureau of Motor Vehicles within the Department of
18 Transportation of the suspension.
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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