2151 Promulgation of consumer price index and judicial salaries pursuant to Act 51 of 1995; no. 224; judicial administration doc. no. 1

Title 204--JUDICIAL SYSTEMS GENERAL PROVISIONS

PART VII. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
OF PENNSYLVANIA COURTS

[204 PA. CODE CH. 211]

Promulgation of Consumer Price Index and Judicial Salaries Pursuant to Act 51 of 1995; No. 224; Judicial Administration Doc. No. 1

[30 Pa.B. 6420]

Order

Per Curiam:

   And Now, this 29th day of November, 2000, pursuant to Article V, Section 10(c) of the Pennsylvania Constitution and Section 1721 of the Judicial Code, 42 Pa.C.S. § 1721, it is hereby Ordered that the Court Administrator of Pennsylvania is authorized to obtain and publish in the Pennsylvania Bulletin the percentage increase in the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the most recent 12-month period and the judicial salary amounts effective January 1, 2001, as required by Act 51 of 1995, amending the Public Official Compensation Law, Act of September 30, 1983 (P. L. 160, No. 39), 65 P. S. § 366.1 et seq.

Annex A

TITLE 204.  JUDICIAL SYSTEM GENERAL PROVISIONS

PART VII.  ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF PENNSYLVANIA COURTS

CHAPTER 211.  CONSUMER PRICE INDEX

§ 211.1  Consumer Price Index

   Pursuant to Article V, Section 10(c) of the Pennsylvania Constitution and Section 1721 of the Judicial Code, 42 Pa.C.S. § 1721, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has authorized the Court Administrator to obtain and publish in the Pennsylvania Bulletin the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the most recent 12-month period and the judicial salaries effective January 1, 2001, as required by Act 51 of 1995, amending the Public Official Compensation Law, Act of September 30, 1983 (P. L. 160, No. 39), 65 P. S. § 366.1 et seq. See, No. 224 Judicial Administration Docket No. 1.

   The Court Administrator of Pennsylvania reports that the percentage of increase in the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), for the 12-month period ending October 2000, was 2.0 percent. (See, U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Series CUURA102SAO, Thursday, November 16, 2000).

   The Court Administrator of Pennsylvania also reports that the following judicial salaries are adopted to implement Act 51 of 1995:

§ 211.2.  Judicial salaries effective January 1, 2001.

   (a)  Supreme Court.--The annual salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall be $137,270 and the annual salary of each of the other justices of the Supreme Court shall be $133,643.

   (b)  Superior Court.--The annual salary of the President Judge of the Superior Court shall be $131,412 and the annual salary of the other judges of the Superior Court shall be $129,458.

   (c)  Commonwealth Court.--The annual salary of the President Judge of the Commonwealth Court shall be $131,412. The annual salary of each of the other judges of the Commonwealth Court shall be $129,458.

   (d)  Courts of common pleas.--

   (1)  The annual salary of a president judge of a court of common pleas shall be fixed in accordance with the following schedule:

   (i)  Allegheny County, $118,298.

   (ii)  Philadelphia County, $118,857.

   (iii)  Judicial districts having six or more judges, $117,182.

   (iv)  Judicial districts having three to five judges, $116,624.

   (v)  Judicial districts having one or two judges, $116,065.

   (vi)  Administrative judges of the divisions of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County with divisions of six or more judges, $117,182.

   (vii)  Administrative judges of the divisions of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County with divisions of five or less judges, $116,624.

   (viii)  Administrative judges of the divisions of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County with divisions of six or more judges, $117,182.

   (ix)  Administrative judges of the divisions of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County with divisions of five or less judges, $116,624.

   (2)  The other judges of the courts of common pleas shall be paid an annual salary of $116,065.

   (e)  Philadelphia Municipal Court.--The President Judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court shall receive an annual salary of $114,950. The annual salary for the other judges of the Philadelphia Municipal Court shall be $112,998.

   (f)  Philadelphia Traffic Court.--The President Judge of the Philadelphia Traffic Court shall receive an annual salary of $61,382. The annual salary for the other judges of the Philadelphia Traffic Court shall be $60,824.

   (g)  District justices.--A district justice shall receive an annual salary payable by the Commonwealth of $57,475.

   (h)  Senior judges.--The compensation of the senior judges pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 4121 (relating to assignment of judges) shall be $355 per day. In any calendar year the amount of compensation which a senior judge shall be permitted to earn as a senior judge shall not when added to retirement income paid by the Commonwealth for such senior judge exceed the compensation payable by the Commonwealth to a judge then in regular active service on the court from which said senior judge retired. A senior judge who so elects may serve without being paid all or any portion of the compensation provided by this section.

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 00-2151. Filed for public inspection December 15, 2000, 9:00 a.m.]