§ 30. Assistant judge and substitute assistant municipal court judges.

When the judge of the municipal court is elected, the city council shall also elect an assistant judge of the municipal court whose term of office shall coincide with that of the judge of the municipal court, and who shall be an attorney-at-law licensed to practice in this state, and who, in case of the absence from the city or inability to act on the part of the judge of the municipal court, shall act in all matters in the place, room and stead of the said judge of the municipal court, and who when so acting shall possess the same powers and discharge the same duties as said judge; and his salary for so acting shall be fixed by the council and paid out of the city treasury.

And in addition, the said assistant judge of the municipal court, independently of whether he be acting for the judge of the municipal court or not, shall at all times have the same power to issue warrants and to admit to bail as is hereinafter provided for bail commissioners, and at all times have the same powers as the judge of the municipal court in matters relating to lunacy, inebriacy, drug addicts, feeblemindedness and epilepsy, and in matters relating to the issuing of summons, mittimus, process, capias and other proper papers; and for his services in issuing warrants, admitting to bail or in connection with matters of lunacy, inebriacy, drug addicts, feeblemindedness or epilepsy, he shall receive the same fees and from the same sources as allowed under the general laws of the state to other officers for performing similar services. The present assistant judge of the municipal court shall be the assistant judge of the municipal court and fill that office until the expiration of the term for which he was elected and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. The city council may elect one or more attorneys-at-law licensed to practice in this state as substitute assistant judges of the municipal court to act in case of the absence from the City or in ability to act on the part of the assistant judge of the municipal court who when so acting shall have all the powers and duties of the assistant judge of the municipal court. And the council may fix their terms of office and provide for and fix their compensation.

(Acts 1942, ch. 167, p. 209; Acts 1970, ch. 9, p. 8)

(Acts 1942, ch. 167, p. 209; Acts 1970, ch. 9, p. 8)