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There shall be a municipal court in and for the City of Inkster which shall be known as `The Municipal Court for the City of Inkster.' Said court shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction over all suits and proceedings[,] both civil and criminal, to the same extent as was heretofore had and exercised by the justices of the peace of the Townships of Dearborn and Nankin, except as otherwise provided by Act No. 5 of Public Acts of 1956 of the State of Michigan, as amended, and such other statutes of the State of Michigan as pertain and relate to municipal courts and this charter.
At the election at which this charter is submitted, there shall be elected two municipal judges who shall hold office until July 4, 1966; and thereafter every four years at the regular city election there shall be elected two municipal judges whose terms of office shall be for four years and shall commence on the 5th day of July of the same year as their election and terminate four years thereafter on the 4th day of July.
The judges of said court shall be regularly licensed attorneys and counselors at law, licensed to practice in the State of Michigan and who shall have been admitted to the practice of law by the State Bar of Michigan prior to the primary election in which they file and shall possess such other qualifications as are prescribed in Act No. 5 of the Public Acts [of] 1956 of the State of Michigan, as amended, and in this charter for elective officers.
Said court shall have concurrent jurisdiction in all civil matters, causes, suits and proceedings, ex contractu and ex delicto, where the debt or damage does not exceed one thousand dollars, and concurrent jurisdiction in all actions of replevin wherein the value of the property does not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, or in such other forms of action at such greater amount as may from time to time be established by the law of the State of Michigan.
The provisions of Act No. 5 of the Public Acts of 1956 of the State of Michigan, as amended, entitled, `An Act to establish and promote a uniform system of municipal courts in cities; to consolidate justice courts in cities into a system of municipal courts; to change the name of existing justice courts and justices of the peace in cities to municipal courts and municipal judges; to promote uniformity in practice and procedure in such courts; to prescribe the powers, duties, and functions of such courts; and to provide for substitute municipal judges in cities in cases of death, absence, disability or removal of the regularly elected or appointed municipal judges and in cases where temporary judicial assistance is needed in such courts, are hereby adopted for the municipal court of the City of Inkster.
Any cause pending before the municipal judges may, whenever such municipal judge is unable to act in said cause at the time the matters come before him, be transferred upon his order, or in case of his absence, by the clerk to the other municipal judge and a note of such transfer shall be entered upon the docket of the case. When the municipal judges shall have acted in any one case or proceeding, the docket shall be signed in the manner and within the time provided by law by the municipal judge who shall have given the final judgment.
Said municipal judges shall hear, try and determine all suits and prosecutions for the recovery and enforcing of fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by the charter and ordinances of the City of Inkster to punish offenders for the violation of said charter and ordinances as therein prescribed and directed.
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