The Municipal Judge shall preside over the Municipal Court. He or she 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 of the criminal powers and perform all duties fixed by law in a magistrate, except that he or she shall have no jurisdiction in civil cases; and he or she 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.
(Ord. passed 11-8-2010)