Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 49, December 7, 2024
Section 19.162 - Amend and add subsectionsSection 1. Section 4 of the act of December 2, 1968 (P. L. 1131, No. 352), known as the Magisterial Districts Act, is amended by adding a subsection to read:Section 4. Magisterial Districts; Classes.-***(c) There shall be no increase in the number of magisterial districts of the fourth class within a judicial district from and after the effective date of this act.Section 2. Section 5(a) of the act is amended to read:Section 5. Salaries.- (a) A district justice shall receive an annual salary paid by the Commonwealth and computed by adding to [three thousand dollars ($3,000)] six thousand dollars ($6,000) the product of the population of his magisterial district times forty cents (40¢), but in no event shall the salary exceed [fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000)] sixteen thousand five hundred dollars ($16,500) or be less than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).***