(a) Jurisdiction and Powers Generally. The Police Judge, appointed pursuant to the provisions of Section 43 of the City Charter, shall have the criminal jurisdiction and powers prescribed for municipal mayors in West Virginia Code 8-10-1; and he shall have such further jurisdiction and powers as may be prescribed for his office elsewhere in the Codified Ordinances and in other ordinances.
(b) Trial Docket. The Police Judge shall produce each day the court is in session, 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 Police Judge shall be entered upon the docket, setting forth the name of the defendant, the charge against the defendant, the name of the arresting officer, and the disposition made by the Police Judge of the case, and the disposition made by him of the defendant, to include any sentence adjudged against the defendant. The docket shall be indexed by the names of the defendants.
(c) Appeal Docket; Transcript. The Police Judge 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 the Circuit Court of Mercer County, and upon appeal being perfected, he shall make out and certify to the Clerk of 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 such transcript fee as may be allowed by law.
(d) Fines, Costs, Process and Oaths. The Police Judge shall tax all costs in the Police 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.
(e) Applicability of State Law. In addition to the foregoing jurisdiction and powers, the provisions of West Virginia Code Chapter 50, and the provisions of West Virginia Code Chapter 62, relating to criminal procedure, insofar as they can be made applicable to the Police Judge and the Police Court, respectively, as to subject matter not otherwise contained in the City Charter, the Codified Ordinances or other ordinances.
(1975 Code Sec. 13-2)