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an annual salary of Seventeen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
($17,500.00). The other full-time Judges shall receive an annual
salary of Seventeen Thousand Dollars ($17,000.00).

(B) THE JUDGES OF SAID COURT SHALL NOT ENGAGE
IN THE PRIVATE PRACTICE OF LAW DURING THEIR
TERMS OF OFFICE.

6. (6)

Judges of the Court shall sit as follows:

One at Annapolis and/or the southern part of Anne Arundel
County.

One at Glen Burnie or Ferndale and/or the northern part of Anne
Arundel County.

One at Odenton, Edgewater and/or Mountain Road.

The Chief Judge of the Court shall designate the places at which
the Judges of the Court shall sit and the rotation of the Judges of
the Court among the places where they sit, except that at all times
at least one Judge shall sit at Annapolis and/or the southern part
of the county and at least one shall sit at Glen Burnie or Ferndale
and/or the northern part of the county.

7. (7)

The Judges of the People's Court of Anne Arundel County shall
have all the authority, power, civil and criminal jurisdiction in the
whole of said county, heretofore vested in the justices of the peace
designated as trial magistrates and other justices of the peace of
said county. In civil cases, the Judges shall have jurisdiction in
cases where the amount in controversy does not exceed One Thousand
Dollars ($1,000), which jurisdictions shall be exclusive in cases
involving amounts not exceeding Three Hundred Dollars ($300),
and provided that all cases where the amount in controversy exceeds
Five Hundred Dollars ($500) may be immediately transferred or
removed for trial by any party to the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County. The determination of any matter adjudicated by
the court shall be evidenced by a judgment entered on a docket which
shall be maintained in such manner as the court may by rule deter-
mine. A copy of the docket entries, certified by the Chief Clerk, or
by a deputy clerk, shall be evidence in any cause or proceeding in
any court, or before any justice of the peace, or agency of this State.
The Court however, shall not be considered as a court of record.

8. (8)

(a). In addition to the power above enumerated and not in der-
ogation or limitation thereof, the Judges of the People's Court shall
have the following powers:

(b). (A) To provide by appropriate rules and printed forms, for
the administration of said Court and for the expeditious, orderly,
efficient and simple practice and procedure in said Court which may
relate to, and include, but shall not be limited to, the fixing of court
costs, registered or certified mail service, return days, practice in suits
against non-residents, attachments, replevins, joint tort-feasors,
counter-claims, cross-claims, and consolidations, continuances, dep-