LEHIGH COUNTY Adoption of New Lehigh Rule of Criminal Procedure 117; File No. AD-2-2006 [36 Pa.B. 3999]
[Saturday, July 29, 2006]Order And Now, this 11th day of July, 2006, pursuant to the requirements of Pa.R.Crim.P. 117, It Is Ordered that effective August 1, 2006, new Lehigh County Rule of Criminal Procedure, Leh.R.Cr.P.117 Coverage: Issuing Warrants; Preliminary Arraignments and Summary Trials: and Setting and Accepting Bail, be and the same is hereby adopted in the following form.
It Is Further Ordered that seven (7) certified copies of this Order and the attached Rule of Criminal Procedure shall be filed with the Administrative Office of Pennslvania Courts; that two (2) certified copies and one (1) diskette shall be filed with the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin; that one (1) certified copy shall be filed with the Criminal Procedural Rules Committee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; and that one copy shall be filed with the Clerk of Courts--Criminal of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County.
By the Court
WILLIAM H. PLATT,
President JudgeLeh.R.Cr.P.117. Coverage: Issuing Warrants; Preliminary Arraignments and Summary Trials; and Setting and Accepting Bail.
1. Magisterial District Judge Offices shall be open for regular business on Mondays through Fridays, excluding holidays, during such hours as established by Order of the President Judge, and as may be modified with the approval of the President Judge to meet the needs of the public and the court.
2. Continuous coverage for the issuance of warrants, the holding of preliminary arraignments and summary trials, and the setting and accepting of bail and collateral shall be by the traditional on-call system as presently established. The President Judge shall establish the schedule of assignment of Magisterial District Judges to on-call duty.
3. An on-call Magisterial District Judge, while on-call, and the Clerk of Courts-Criminal, on any day and at any time, are authorized to accept bail in accordance with the provisions, and subject to the limitations, of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 06-1441. Filed for public inspection July 28, 2006, 9:00 a.m.]
