The Municipal Court Judge shall be a conservator of the peace within the city and, insofar as any ordinance of the city is concerned, shall have and exercise all such powers and duties in criminal cases as a Magistrate may lawfully exercise under the statutes of the state; and he or she shall also be, ex officio, a Magistrate within the city and shall, within the city, have and exercise all the powers relating to crime and perform all duties fixed by law upon a Magistrate; except, that he or she shall have no jurisdiction over civil cases. The Municipal Court Judge shall have such further powers and perform such other duties as may be, from time to time, prescribed or conferred by any law of the state or by ordinance of the city, as well as the judicial powers conferred upon the Mayor by the City Charter, insofar as such Charter provisions are not in conflict with the State Constitution or any state statute which takes precedence over the City Charter.
(1991 Code, § 11-3)