As Amended
SEC. 9-9-1. Continuation and establishment in certain counties.
[Until Laws, 2002, ch. 356, § 3, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, provided that Laws, 2002, ch. 713 is ratified by the electorate, this section will read as follows:]
(1) There shall be an inferior court to be known as the county court in and for each of the following counties:
(a) Each county of the state wherein a county court is in existence on July 1, 1985; and
(b) From and after January 1, 1987, each county which has a population exceeding fifty thousand (50,000) inhabitants as shown by the latest federal decennial census.
(2) A county judge for a county which is required to establish a county court under paragraph (1)(b) of this section shall be elected by the qualified electors of such county in the same manner as provided for the election of circuit court judges at an election held at the same time as the next regular election of circuit court judges first occurring after the date upon which it can be determined that a county court is required under the provisions of paragraph (1)(b) of this section to be established in such county.
(3) The provisions of this section shall not be construed so as to require that a county court be established in any county in which the board of supervisors has agreed and contracted with the board of supervisors of any other county or counties to support and maintain one (1) county court for such counties as provided in Section 9-9-3.
[From and after the date Laws, 2002, ch. 356, § 3, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, provided that Laws, 2002, ch. 713 is ratified by the electorate, this section will read as follows:]
(1) There shall be an inferior court to be known as the county court in and for each of the following counties:
(a) Each county of the state wherein a county court is in existence on July 1, 1985; and
(b) From and after January 1, 1987, each county which has a population exceeding fifty thousand (50,000) inhabitants as shown by the latest federal decennial census.
(2) A county judge for a county which is required to establish a county court under paragraph (1)(b) of this section shall be elected by the qualified electors of such county for the same term and in the same manner as provided for the election of circuit court judges at an election held at the same time as the next regular election of circuit court judges first occurring after the date upon which it can be determined that a county court is required under the provisions of paragraph (1)(b) of this section to be established in such county.
(3) The provisions of this section shall not be construed so as to require that a county court be established in any county in which the board of supervisors has agreed and contracted with the board of supervisors of any other county or counties to support and maintain one (1) county court for such counties as provided in Section 9-9-3.
SOURCES: Codes, 1930, Sec. 693; 1942 Sec. 1604; Laws, 1926, ch. 131; 1934, ch. 236; 1936, ch. 247; 1948, ch. 236; 1950, ch. 321; 1962, ch. 300; 1964, ch. 322; 1966, ch. 344, Sec. 1; 1968, ch. 311, Sec. 1; 1970, ch. 335, Sec. 1; 1974, ch. 477, Sec. 1; 1979, ch. 457, Sec. 1; 1985, ch 502, Sec. 60; Laws, 2002, ch. 356, § 3, SB 2606, eff __ (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the amendment of this section.)
PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2002