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recommendations to the Supreme Judicial Court in regard to | | discipline, disability, retirement or removal of justices of the | | Supreme Judicial Court and the Superior Court and judges of the | District Court, and the probate courts and the Administrative | Court. |
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| | | Sec. 4. 4 MRSA §121, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 891, Pt. A, §1, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | §121. Justice or Active Retired Justice of Superior Court |
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| | | assigned to sit in District Court |
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| | | A Justice or an Active Retired Justice of the Superior Court | | may be assigned by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial | Court to sit in the District Court or the Administrative Court | | and when so directed the justice has authority and jurisdiction | in the District Court or the Administrative Court as if the | | justice were a regular judge of that court; and whenever the | | Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court so directs, the | | justice may hear all matters and issue all orders, notices, | decrees and judgments that any Judge of the District Court or the | Administrative Court is authorized to hear and issue. |
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| | | The order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court | | directing a Justice or an Active Retired Justice of the Superior | Court to sit in the District Court or the Administrative Court | | must be filed with the Executive Clerk of the Supreme Judicial | | Court, but need not be docketed or otherwise recorded in any case | | heard by that justice. |
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| | | Sec. 5. 4 MRSA §152, sub-§5, ļO, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 392, §1, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | O. Actions in which the pleading demands a judgment: |
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| | | (1) To exclude a person from a vested or contingent | | interest in or lien upon specific property within the | | State; |
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| | | (2) That a vested or contingent interest in or lien | upon specific property within the State be enforced; or |
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| | | (2-A)__That real property be partitioned by sale; or |
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| | | (3) Otherwise affecting title to any real property; |
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| | | Sec. 6. 4 MRSA §152, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 573, §1, is | | amended to read: |
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