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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 01-499

THE COURTS

YORK COUNTY

Administrative Order Amending Procedures at Duty District Justice Office and Providing for Filing Civil Bench Warrants in ''Missile'' Warrant System; No. 251 MA 2001

[31 Pa.B. 1562]

Administrative

   And Now, this 7th day of March, 2001, pursuant to the authority and responsibility of the President Judge to exercise general supervision and administrative control over District Justices within the 19th Judicial District (Pa.R.C.P.D.J. 17) and to further implement more effective access to certain warrants of arrest within the Magisterial Information System to Support Improved Law Enforcement (MISSILE system), it is hereby Ordered as follows:

I.  Amendment of Administrative Order of June 24, 1999:

   Section III (B) of this Court's Administrative Order of June 24, 1999 (filed June 25, 1999), dealing with ''Disposition of Warrants: Disposition of Summary Warrant / Bench Warrant on Arrest:'' is hereby amended, and shall read, in part, as follows:

   If an individual is arrested after regular court hours, and it appears that, in addition to any outstanding summary warrants, there is one or more outstanding bench warrants, warrants of arrest, or attachments issued by a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, or warrants with commitments attached issued by a District Justice, the individual shall be served with all warrants outstanding, but shall not be taken before the Duty District Justice. The individual shall be taken directly to prison, to be returned the next business day, to the Court of Common Pleas or to the appropriate District Justice, pursuant to the appropriate warrants.

   [The remainder of the text of that section shall remain as set forth in the prior order]

II.  Amendment of Administrative Order of March 7, 1985, Establishing the ''Missile'' System:

   The following text shall amend the Administrative Order of March 7, 1985, signed by the Honorable Robert I. Shadle, President Judge, and subsequent Administrative Orders and Memoranda pertaining to the ''MISSILE'' system:

BENCH WARRANTS ISSUED
BY COMMON PLEAS JUDGES:

   In addition to the warrants previously described, which are to be entered in the York County Magisterial Information System to Support Improved Law Enforcement (''MISSILE'' SYSTEM), all bench warrants issued by a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, whether civil or criminal in nature, and regardless of whether the warrant can be entered in any state or national database, shall be entered into the ''MISSILE'' System as soon as practical after issuance of the warrant.

   It is Further Ordered, that in accordance with Pa.R.Civ.P. 230, the District Court Administrator shall:

   (a)  File seven certified copies hereof with the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts;

   (b)  Distribute two certified copies hereof to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin;

   (c)  File one certified copy hereof with the Criminal Rules Committee;

   (d)  Cause a copy hereof to be published in the York Legal Record at the expense of the County of York; and

   (e)  Supervise the distribution hereof to all Judges, District Justices, Municipal and State Police agencies of the 19th Judicial District, and to York County's Director of Emergency Operations, and the York County Sheriff.

By the Court

JOHN H. CHRONISTER,   
President Judge

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 01-499. Filed for public inspection March 23, 2001, 9:00 a.m.]



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