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Art. 4] MARYLAND MANUAL 679
tion 2 of this Article as the first Chief Judge of the District Court, but all subsequent Chief Judges shall be designated as provided in Section 41D of this Article IV. (c) The General Assembly by law may postpone the effec- tive date of these amendments in any District or Districts which include a county not having a full time People's Court, but only if the County Commissioners or Council of any such County comprising a District, or part thereof, by resolution adopted by them and concurred in by the County Executive, if any, and addressed to the General Assembly no later than January I next following adoption of these amendments by the voters, shall first request such post- ponement. These amendments shall become effective in all Districts, notwithstanding any such postponements, no later than January 1, 1975. Until January 1, 1975, or such earlier effective date or dates of these amendments, in the counties of any District for which the effective date of these amend- ments shall have been postponed, (1) the provisions of Sections 41B and 42 of this Article shall have the effect of laws of the General Assembly; (2) all laws relating to the subject matter of said Sections 41B and 42 heretofore or hereafter enacted and applicable to any one or more such counties shall remain in full force and effect; (3) nothing herein shall affect the tenure or jurisdiction of any courts, justices of the peace, magistrates or judges; and (4) wher- ever in this Section 41-1 the phrase "the first Monday in July, 1970," is used, the same shall mean the later effective date of these amendments, established pursuant to this subsection. (d) From and after the first Monday in July, 1970, no further jurisdiction or judicial power shall be vested in or exercised by any justice of the Peace, People's Court, the Municipal Court of Baltimore City, or the Housing Court of Baltimore County. (e) Any matter pending on the day before the first Mon- day in July, 1970, before a justice of the peace or any People's Court, the Municipal Court of Baltimore City or the Housing Court of Baltimore County shall be decided or otherwise disposed of in the District Court in the county (or in Baltimore City) in which the matter was pending on the day before the first Monday in July 1970, unless there- after lawfully removed. Any matter pending on the day before the first Monday in July, 1970, in the Circuit Court for any County, or in any court of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, which matter would be within the juris- diction of the District Court, as established by the General |
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