Pennsylvania Code › Title 204 - JUDICIAL SYSTEM GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part II - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 29 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › Subchapter A - GENERAL › Section 29.11 - Administrative Judges Appointed by the Supreme Court

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
Under 201 Pa. Code Rule 706(d), the authority of each
					 Administrative Judge who presides over and administers a division of a court,
					 which division has three or more judges, shall include, but not be limited by,
					 the following papers:
(1) The
				  Administrative Judge for each division of a Court of Common Pleas shall be
				  appointed by the Supreme Court and shall serve as such at the pleasure of the
				  Court.
(2) The Administrative Judge
				  shall have administrative supervision over the Judges of the division in the
				  exercise of their jurisdiction.
(3)
				  In exercising the administrative supervision prescribed, the Administrative
				  Judge shall have the following general powers for facilitating the speedy and
				  proper administration of justice in those divisions.
(i) To assign individual judges (including
				  visiting judges and available judges from other divisions) to preside in cases,
				  in designated court rooms and, from time to time to reassign the individual
				  judges therein. Such assignments shall be for a reasonable period of time and
				  no judge shall, without his consent, be assigned for any unreasonable or
				  indefinite term to any specified duty.
(ii) The Administrative Judge shall appoint
				  and assign all personnel of the division. However, each judge shall have power
				  of appointment and assignment of a secretary, a tipstaff, and a law clerk,
				  which comprise the personal staff of the appointing judge.
(iii) The Administrative Judge shall have the
				  duty and authority to designate and use of all rooms assigned to the division
				  for judicial uses, excepting chambers of each judge.
(iv) To provide for, establish and maintain
				  consolidated lists (i.e., motions, jury trial, nonjury trial, equity,
				  arraignment, etc.), and to provide and establish procedures necessary and
				  proper to implement these practices.
(v) To formulate, establish and maintain such
				  procedures as are necessary to promote, encourage and implement waivers of
				  civil jury trials.
(vi) To require
				  that sessions of the division shall be of such nature and duration that there
				  may be maximum dispositions of business consistent with the number of judges
				  and rooms available and the proper administration of justice in the causes
				  concerned.
(vii) To report
				  periodically to the President Judge and the Supreme Court facts and statistics
				  concerning the dispatch of business under this program and to make such
				  additional recommendations for changes or improvements in rules and procedures
				  as may further expedite the proper administration of justice.
(viii) To make rules and regulations and do
				  any and all things necessary and proper to carry out the purposes and intent of
				  the general powers granted to the Administrative Judge herein.