COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

§§ 6840-6844.
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MUNICIPAL COURT. Tit. XXVIII, Oh. 1.
TITLE XXVIII.
COURTS OP RECORD OF ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
CHAPTER 1.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
SECTION 6840. Municipal court—limits of city denned.
1 Any city, whether organized under commission form of govern-
2 ment or the general law for the incorporation of cities or towns, now
3 or hereafter having a population of five thousand or more, as shown
4 by the last preceding state or United States census, may establish a
5 municipal court under the provisions of this chapter by proceeding as
6 hereinafter provided, and for the purpose of this chapter, the terri-
7 torial limits of any such city shall be held to extend to the limits and
8 include therein all civil townships in which said city or any part
9 thereof is located. Provided, that if such territorial limits include the
10 territorial limits of an incorporated town, the mayor's court of such
11 town shall have exclusive jurisdiction of prosecutions for the violation
12 of the ordinances of such town.
[S. S., '15, § 694-cl ; 38 G. A., ch. 142, § 1 ; 39 G. A., ch. 202,
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SEC. 6844. Inferior courts abolished—exceptions—dockets and
records delivered to clerk.
1 After the adoption of the proposition to establish a municipal
2 court under the provisions of this chapter, and upon the election or
3 appointment and qualification of the officers herein provided for, the
4 police court, mayor's court, justice of the peace court and the superior
5 court in and for the territory within the municipal court district, shall
6 be abolished and the offices of police judge, clerk of police court, jus-
7 tices of the peace, constables, superior judge and clerk of superior
8 court shall likewise be abolished ; and when said offices shall be abol-
9 ished the dockets of such courts and all records and papers in their
10 possession pertaining to any proceedings had before them shall be
11 forthwith delivered to the clerk of the municipal court, who shall pre-
12 serve same in his office and who shall have full power and authority
13 to certify and transcript such proceedings, as appear in the said dock-
14 ets and records and papers of the said courts, and all subsequent pro-
15 ceedings in any cause of action then pending in any of the said courts
16 so abolished, shall be carried out in the said municipal court in the
17 manner herein provided for, the same as if the said cause had orig-
18 inated in said municipal court.
19 Provided, that if an incorporated town is situated within the
20 territorial limits of a municipal court district, the mayor's court in