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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.
In all suits and prosecutions arising under the charter and ordinances of the City of Inkster, the right of appeal or certiorari from said court to the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne, or to any other court having jurisdiction, shall be allowed to the parties or any or either of them, and the same recognizance or bond shall be given as is or may be required by law in case of appeal or certiorari from justice court in analogous cases.
Said municipal judges shall enter or cause to be entered in the docket kept by them, the title of all suits and prosecutions commenced or prosecuted before them for violation of the charter and ordinances of the city, and all the proceedings and the judgment rendered in such case, and shall itemize all costs taxed or allowed therein. They shall also enter or cause to be entered the amounts and dates of payment of all fines, penalties and forfeitures, moneys and costs, reviewed by them or the clerk of the court, on account of said suit or proceedings. Such docket shall be submitted by the municipal judges or the court clerk at all reasonably times to the examination of any person desiring to examine the same, and shall be produced by the municipal judges or the court to the council of the city whenever required. They shall also maintain a civil docket of all proceedings before them and shall cause all entries to be made therein in the same manner as herein provided for the criminal docket. Failure of the presiding officer of the court to make provision for the maintenance of such dockets shall constitute misconduct in office.
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