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Reassignment of matters - 42 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 503

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     § 503.  Reassignment of matters.
        (a)  General rule.--The Supreme Court may by general rule
     provide for the assignment and reassignment of classes of
     matters among the several courts of this Commonwealth and the
     magisterial district judges as the needs of justice shall
     require and all laws shall be suspended to the extent that they
     are inconsistent with such general rules.
        (b)  Procedures.--
            (1)  Rules adopted pursuant to subsection (a) shall be
        reported to the General Assembly by the Chief Justice at or
        after the beginning of a regular session thereof, but not
        later than May 1.
            (2)  Upon receipt, such rules shall be proposed to each
        house of the General Assembly as a resolution or resolutions,
        shall be placed on the calendar of each house for the next
        legislative day following their receipt, and shall be
        considered by each house within 120 calendar days of
        continuous session by the General Assembly.
            (3)  Such rules shall take effect if they are approved by
        a majority vote of the duly elected members of each house
        during such 120-day period, or may be disapproved by either
        house during that period by a majority vote of the duly
        elected membership of each house. The effective date of such
        rules shall be the date of approval of the last of the two
        houses to act.
            (4)  Upon the expiration of the 120-day period after the
        delivery of such rules to the two houses of the General
        Assembly and the failure to act as provided in paragraphs (2)
        and (3), such rules shall become effective.
            (5)  For the purposes of this subsection, continuity of
        session shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment
        of the General Assembly sine die; but in the computation of
        the 120-day period, there shall be excluded the days on which
        either house is not in session because of an adjournment of
        more than ten days to a day certain.
            (6)  Any such rules may, under provisions contained
        therein, be made operative at a time later than the date on
        which such rules would otherwise take effect.
     (Nov. 30, 2004, P.L.1618, No.207, eff. 60 days)

        2004 Amendment.  Act 207 amended subsec. (a). See sections 28
     and 29 of Act 207 in the appendix to this title for special
     provisions relating to applicability and construction of law.
        Cross References.  Section 503 is referred to in sections
     701, 704, 931, 932, 933, 1105, 1123, 1143, 1302, 1515, 1702,
     1722, 2132, 3724, 5502 of this title.

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