§ 29.5. Certification of District Justice Election Data.
(1) On or before the 15th Tuesday before the primary election in each odd-numbered year the Court Administrator of Pennsylvania shall certify to the Secretary of the Commonwealth such information as may be necessary to specify the magisterial districts in which district justices will be elected at the municipal election in such year.
(2) Except as otherwise expressly ordered by the Supreme Court with respect to any particular magisterial districts, orders establishing or modifying magisterial districts entered after the 19th Tuesday before the primary election in an odd-numbered year shall not affect the number and boundaries of magisterial districts certified to the Secretary of the Commonwealth for the purposes of such primary election and the ensuing municipal election.
(3) Should any political subdivision or part thereof (other than the City and County of Philadelphia) be omitted in the description of the magisterial districts so certified, such political subdivision or part thereof shall be included as a part of the magisterial district which completely surrounds it, or if such omitted political subdivision or part thereof is not completely surrounded by one magisterial district it shall become a part of that magisterial district to which it is contiguous within the same county, or if there are two or more such contiguous magisterial districts, it shall become a part of that magisterial district contiguous thereto which is located within the same county and which has the least population as last officially determined for the purpose of establishing magisterial districts.
(4) Any city, borough, township or ward created since the affected magisterial districts were last established, and not specifically provided for in the order establishing the affected magisterial districts, shall form a part of the magisterial district or districts to which the territory comprised within the city, borough, township or ward is allotted by the provisions of the most recent order establishing the affected magisterial districts, according to the political division existing at the date of such order; and any city, borough, township or ward, or any portion thereof, annexed to any other city, borough, township or ward since the date of such order, shall form a part of the magisterial district to which the territory comprised within such city, borough, township or ward, or portion thereof, is allotted by such order, according to the political division existing at the time of such order.
Official Note
Section 905 of the Pennsylvania Election Code, Act of June 3, 1937 (P. L. 1333, No. 320) (25 P. S. § 2865) requires that the Secretary of the Commonwealth on or before the thirteenth Tuesday preceding the primary at which district justices are to be nominated shall send to each county board of election a written notice designating the offices of district justice for which candidates are to be nominated.
Source The provisions of this § 29.5 adopted November 19, 1974, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Magisterial Docket No. 1-K, 5 Pa. B. 177.
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