Each village shall have a village court consisting of an associate judge of the High Court. The Chief Justice shall assign associate judges to be responsible for conducting court sessions in 1 or more villages. From time to time, as the number of cases awaiting trial requires, the responsible associate judge shall convene the village court to try those matters outstanding.
History: 1969, PL 11-54; 1971, PL 12-16 § 1; amd 1979, PL 16-28 § 17, PL I6-52 § 2.
Amendments: 1979 Redesignated the district courts as village courts; substituted “an associate judge of the High Court” for “a village magistrate” in the first sentence, and added second and third sentences