Minnesota Session Laws - 1984, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1984 

                        CHAPTER 494-H.F.No. 1695
           An act relating to courts; accelerating the effective 
          date of judicial reorganization in the third and 
          seventh judicial districts; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1982, section 487.191. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 487.191, is 
amended to read: 
    487.191 [MERGER WITH DISTRICT COURTS.] 
    Except in the third and seventh judicial districts, one 
year following certification to the secretary of state of 
intention to reorganize the trial courts by a majority of the 
district judges and a majority of the county or county municipal 
judges of a judicial district, there shall be one general trial 
court of the judicial district to be known as the district 
court, which shall also be a probate court.  In the third and 
seventh judicial districts, the judicial district reorganization 
shall become effective three months after certification to the 
secretary of state of intention to reorganize the trial courts 
by a majority of the district judges and a majority of the 
county judges of the third and seventh judicial districts.  
    Upon the effective date of a judicial district 
reorganization, the district court, except in the second and 
fourth districts, shall also exercise the powers, duties, and 
jurisidiction conferred upon courts by chapters 260, 484, 487, 
491, 492, 493, and 525.  
    Upon the effective date of a judicial district 
reorganization of the second or fourth districts, the district 
court shall also exercise the powers conferred upon courts by 
chapters 488A, 492, and 493.  
    Notwithstanding any other law, the county or county 
municipal judges of the district in office on the effective date 
of a reorganization shall be district judges and shall continue 
in office for the balance of the term for which they were 
elected or appointed and shall be entitled to run for reelection 
district-wide as incumbent judges of the district court. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day after final enactment. 
    Approved April 25, 1984