Each magistrate court shall file a standardized monthly report with the administrative office of the courts not later than the date each month established by regulation of the director of the administrative office. The report shall itemize all fines, forfeitures and costs imposed, received and disbursed by the magistrate during the previous month or indicate that none were imposed, received or disbursed. One copy of the report shall be retained by the magistrate. The administrative office shall audit and adjust each report in accordance with the facts and file the reports in its office for a period of five years.
History: 1953 Comp., § 36-9-3, enacted by Laws 1968, ch. 62, § 98; 1979, ch. 160, § 1; 1991, ch. 82, § 10.
Repeals. — Laws 1968, ch. 62, § 171, repealed former 36-9-3, 1953 Comp., relating to survival of right to bring action, effective January 1, 1969.
The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, deleted former Subsection B which read "Any magistrate who fails to comply with the provisions of this section is guilty of a petty misdemeanor and shall be removed from office" and made a related stylistic change.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 51 C.J.S. Justices of the Peace § 9.
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