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Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
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PROCLAMATION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ARTICLE V, SECTIONS 1, 6(c),
					 10(d), 12(b), and 15(a)
WHEREAS
, Joint Resolution No. 1 of 2013
					 and Joint Resolution No. 2 of 2015 proposed to amend Article V, Sections 1,
					 6(c), l0(d),12(b), and 15(a), of the Constitution of Pennsylvania to
					 read:
§ 1. Unified judicial system.
The judicial power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a
					 unified judicial system consisting of the Supreme Court, the Superior Court,
					 the Commonwealth Court, courts of common pleas, community courts, municipal
					 courts in the City of Philadelphia, such other courts as may be provided by law
					 and justices of the peace. All courts and justices of the peace and their
					 jurisdiction shall be in this unified judicial system.
§ 6. Community courts; Philadelphia Municipal
					 Court.
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(c) In the City of Philadelphia there shall be a municipal
					 court. The number of judges and the jurisdiction shall be as provided by law.
					 This court shall exist so long as a community court has not been established or
					 in the event one has been discontinued under this section.
§ 10. Judicial administration.
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(d) The Chief Justice and president judges of all courts
					 with seven or less judges shall be the justice or judge longest in continuous
					 service on their respective courts; and in the event of his resignation from
					 this position the justice or judge next longest in continuous service shall be
					 the Chief Justice or president judge. The president judges of all other courts
					 shall be selected for five-year terms by the members of their respective
					 courts. A Chief Justice or president judge may resign such position and remain
					 a member of the court. In the event of a tie vote for office of president judge
					 in a court which elects its president judge, the Supreme Court shall appoint as
					 president judge one of the judges receiving the highest number of votes.
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§ 12. Qualifications of justices, judges and
					 justices of the peace.
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(b) Justices of the peace shall be members of the bar of
					 the Supreme Court or shall complete a course of training and instruction in the
					 duties of their respective offices and pass an examination prior to assuming
					 office. Such courses and examinations shall be as provided by law.
§ 15. Tenure of justices, judges and justices of
					 the peace.
(a) The regular term of office of justices and judges shall
					 be ten years and the regular term of office for judges of the municipal court
					 in the City of Philadelphia and of justices of the peace shall be six years.
					 The tenure of any justice or judge shall not be affected by changes in judicial
					 districts or by reduction in the number of judges.
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WHEREAS
, Joint Resolution No. 1 of 2013
					 was agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each House of the General
					 Assembly and published pursuant to Article XI, Section 1 of the Constitution of
					 Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS
, in the General Assembly next
					 afterwards chosen, the aforesaid amendment to Article V, Sections 1, 6(c),
					 l0(d), 12(h), and 15(a), of the Constitution of Pennsylvania was proposed in
					 Joint Resolution No. 2 of 2015, which was agreed to by a majority of the
					 members elected to each House of the General Assembly and published pursuant to
					 Article XI, Section 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS
, the aforesaid proposed amendment
					 to Article V, Sections 1, 6(c), 10(d), 12(h), and l5(a), of the Constitution of
					 Pennsylvania was submitted for approval to the qualified electors of the
					 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania pursuant to Article XI, Section 1 of the
					 Constitution of Pennsylvania at an election held on April 26, 2016; and
WHEREAS
, the Secretary of the
					 Commonwealth, pursuant to law, has certified to me that the aforesaid proposed
					 amendment to Article V, Sections 1, 6(c), l0(d), 12(h), and 15(a), of the
					 Constitution of Pennsylvania was approved by a majority of those voting thereon
					 on the aforesaid day; and
WHEREAS
, Section 903 of Title 1 of the
					 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes requires the Governor, upon receiving the
					 aforesaid certification of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, to issue his
					 proclamation indicating whether or not the proposed amendment to Article V,
					 Sections 1, 6(c), l0(d), 12(b), and 15(a), of the Constitution of Pennsylvania
					 has been adopted by a majority of the electors voting there on.
NOW THEREFORE,
I, Tom Wolf, Governor of
					 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby proclaim that the aforesaid
					 amendment to Article V, Sections 1, 6(c), 10(d), 12(h), and 15(a), of the
					 Constitution of Pennsylvania was adopted by a majority of the electors voting
					 thereon on April 26, 2016.
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GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of the Commonwealth,
					 at the City of Harrisburg, this twenty-seventh day of June in the year of our
					 Lord two thousand sixteen and of the Commonwealth the two hundred and
					 fortieth.
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