(a) The Municipal Court and the Municipal Judge shall have the jurisdiction, exercise the powers and perform the duties specified for Mayors, Municipal Courts and Municipal Judges, respectively, in Sections 8-10-1 and 8-10-2 of the Code of West Virginia amended, provided, that neither the municipal court nor the municipal judge shall have any jurisdiction in civil cases or causes of action.
(b) The powers and duties of the Municipal Judge shall include, among other subjects not mentioned herein, the following:
(1) Trial docket. He shall produce at the opening of the court a docket on which shall be entered all cases set for trial on that day. The cases shall be numbered progressively on the docket, and the papers in each case numbered to correspond. The title of every case entertained by the municipal judge shall be entered upon the docket, setting forth the name of the defendant, the charge against him, the name of the officer arresting him, and the disposition made by the Municipal Judge of the case, and the disposition made by him of the defendant, whether discharged, committed to the custody of some officer and the reason therefor, or imprisoned and, if imprisoned, the term of imprisonment, and whether admitted to bail or committed to answer indictment. In each case continuances, if any may be granted, shall be noted; also the amount of all fines imposed, all costs thereto attached, and to whom payable. The docket shall be indexed in the names of the defendants.
(2) Appeal docket; transcript. He shall keep an appeal docket, in which shall be duly recorded all the proceedings had in any case in which an appeal shall have been made to a circuit court, and upon appeal being perfected, he shall make out and certify to the court to which the appeal is taken a full transcript of the proceeding had in the case, for which he shall be entitled to collect from the defendant a transcript fee as may be authorized by law; provided, that in no case shall the City or Municipal Court be required to provide a court stenographer in any case before it. Nothing in this title shall, however, prohibit a defendant from having a hearing transcribed by a certified court stenographer at his own expense.
(3) Fines, costs, processes and oaths. He shall tax all costs in the Municipal Court and make out all executions for fines, penalties and costs imposed by him, make out and issue all processes of the court and sign them as judge, and administer oaths.
(4) Rules of procedure. He shall have authority to promulgate and enforce rules of procedure not inconsistent with the Constitution of West Virginia or the statute or common law of the state, or this City Code or other ordinance of the City, or any rule of court established pursuant to state law and which is applicable to municipal courts.