Title 249—PHILADELPHIA RULES PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Philadelphia Municipal Court, Traffic Division; Joint Administrative Order No. 01 of 2013 [43 Pa.B. 4212]
[Saturday, July 27, 2013]Order And Now, this 10th day of July, 2013, in accordance with the provisions of Act 17 of 2013, it is hereby Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that effective on June 19, 2013:
(1) The Philadelphia Traffic Court shall be known as the ''Philadelphia Municipal Court, Traffic Division.''
(2) All references to the ''Philadelphia Traffic Court'' in statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations, pleadings, notices, orders, reports and other forms shall be deemed to be references to the ''Philadelphia Municipal Court, Traffic Division.''
(3) Until further notice, all hearings and other proceedings concerning prosecutions for summary offenses arising under the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 101 et seq., and ordinances enacted pursuant to Title 75 shall continue to be held at 800 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123.
It Is Further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that in order to provide an efficient and cost-minimizing transition, the Philadelphia Municipal Court, Traffic Division may continue to use the current supply of citations, notices, orders, reports, stationary and other forms which contain references to the Philadelphia Traffic Court until such time as the current supply is depleted and updated forms can be ordered in a fiscally prudent manner.
This Administrative Order is issued in accordance with the April 11, 1986 order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District, No. 55 Judicial Administration, Docket No. 1; and with the March 26, 1996 order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District, No. 164 Judicial Administration, Docket No. 1, as amended. As required by Pa.R.Crim.P. No. 105(D), this Order has been submitted to the Supreme Court's Criminal Procedural Rules Committee for review and written notification has been received from the Committee certifying that this Order is not inconsistent with any general rule of the Supreme Court. This Order shall be filed with the Prothonotary in a docket maintained for Orders issued by the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and, as required by Pa.R.Crim.P. No. 105(E), two certified copies of this Order and a copy on a computer diskette, shall be distributed to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. This Order will become effective immediately. As required by Pa.R.Crim.P. No. 105(F) one certified copy of this Order shall be filed with the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts and will also be published on the Unified Judicial System's web site at http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/localrules/ruleselection.aspx and posted on the First Judicial District's website at http://courts.phila.gov. Copies shall be published in The Legal Intelligencer and will be submitted to American Lawyer Media, Jenkins Memorial Law Library, and the Law Library for the First Judicial District.
By the Court
HONORABLE MARSHA H. NEIFIELD,
President Judge
Philadelphia Municipal Court[Pa.B. Doc. No. 13-1384. Filed for public inspection July 26, 2013, 9:00 a.m.]
