Title
MUNICIPAL COURTS
Proposition Summary
Assembly Constitutional Amendment 35. Amends Constitution. Article VI, section 11. Declares Legislature shall provide for establishing a municipal court in any chartered city or city and county of over forty thousand inhabitants, and for the procedure, jurisdiction, number, term and qualifications of judges and attaches thereof; upon establishment thereof directs transfer thereto of all pending business, records, judges and attaches of Inferior courts; prohibits all other courts inferior to superior court within such city or city and county unless established by Legislature. Requires Legislature fix compensation of justices and judges of all courts of record.
Proposition Number
16
Year
1934
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Pass
Popular Vote Results
Y: 684598; A: 52.7; N: 614683; B: 47.3
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Assembly Constitutional Amendment
Code Sections Affected
Amended Cal. Const. art. VI, section 11.
For Author
Percy G. West, Assemblyman, Ninth District; Charles W. Lyon, Assemblyman, Fifty-ninth District
Recommended Citation
MUNICIPAL COURTS California Proposition 16 (1934).
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