2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 31 - Selection and Retention of Judicial Officers
3152 - Tenure of judicial officers.

     § 3152.  Tenure of judicial officers.
        (a)  Judges and magisterial district judges.--The regular
     term of office of judges and magisterial district judges shall
     be as follows:
            (1)  Judges of the Philadelphia Municipal Court and the
        Traffic Court of Philadelphia--Six years.
            (2)  Judges of the Pittsburgh Magistrates Court--Four
        years.
            (3)  All other judges--Ten years.
            (4)  Magisterial district judges--Six years.
        (b)  Effect of changes.--The tenure of any judge or
     magisterial district judge shall not be affected by changes in
     judicial or magisterial districts or by reduction in the number
     of judges or magisterial districts. Where a multicounty judicial
     district is divided by statute into two or more districts or
     where a county is transferred by statute from one judicial
     district to another, a judge shall continue to be or shall
     become a judge of that judicial district which embraces the
     county of that person's residence at the effective date of the
     change. Where the boundaries of a magisterial district are
     revised pursuant to section 1503 (relating to reestablishment of
     districts) a magisterial district judge shall continue to be or
     shall become a magisterial district judge of the magisterial
     district in which that person resides at the effective date of
     the change.
        (c)  Appointive judicial officers.--Except as otherwise
     provided or prescribed by law, appointive judicial officers
     shall hold office at the pleasure of the appointing authority.
     Mental health review officers shall be appointed for terms not
     to exceed one year, and may be reappointed to successive terms.
     (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days; Nov. 30, 2004,
     P.L.1618, No.207, eff. 60 days)

        2004 Amendment.  Act 207 amended subsecs. (a) and (b). See
     sections 28 and 29 of Act 207 in the appendix to this title for
     special provisions relating to applicability and construction of
     law.
        1978 Amendment.  Act 53 amended subsecs. (b) and (c).
        Cross References.  Section 3152 is referred to in sections
     3131, 3153 of this title.