13-628a. Municipal judges in certain cities.
13-628a
13-628a. Municipal judges in certain cities.
In all cities of the first class which have a population of one hundred
thousand (100,000) or more, and which shall have the city-manager plan of
government at the effective date of this act, the court shall be designated
the municipal court, and the judge of the municipal court shall be
appointed by the judges of the district court of the district in which said
city is located in each odd-numbered year, commencing in 1929, to take
office on the third Tuesday in April in such year, or as soon thereafter as
appointed, and hold the same until a successor shall have been appointed
and shall have qualified and said judge shall be designated judge of
division No. 1: Provided, That the judges of the district court of the
district in which such city is located shall appoint two additional judges
to said municipal court, to take office commencing on the third Tuesday in
April, 1967, and until their successors are appointed and qualified in each
odd-numbered year thereafter, said judges to be designated judges of
division No. 2 and division No. 3 respectively. Said municipal judges so
appointed shall have concurrent jurisdiction in said municipal court with
the judge of division No. 1 over all traffic and criminal violations in the
city and all said judges are authorized to direct the police department of
the city to issue all notices of traffic violations in duplicate and to
require the duplicate notice of such violation to be filed with the clerk
of said court.
The said judges, in exercising jurisdiction over traffic violations,
shall record or cause to be recorded on the copy of the notice filed with
said clerk, the disposition of each traffic violation. The provisions of
K.S.A. 13-628b to 13-628h, both sections inclusive, and amendments thereto,
relating to qualifications, powers, duties, bonds, vacancies, salaries and
judges pro tem, shall apply to all of the judges of the municipal court in
said city: Provided, That only one clerk shall be appointed by said
court, said clerk to be appointed by the judge of division No. 1:
Provided further, The judges of the district court of the district in
which such city is located shall designate no more than two divisions of
said municipal court to try and otherwise process traffic violations.
History: L. 1929, ch. 124, § 1; L. 1951, ch. 149, § 1; L. 1967, ch. 103, § 1; May 2.