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Act No. 190 Section 73

When justice is disqualified.

Section 73

SEC. 73. When justice is disqualified. — When a justice of the peace is disqualified from presiding, or when there is no justice of the peace in the municipality where the action is to be brought, or there is one and he refuses to serve, generally or in any particular case, and there is no auxiliary justice in the municipality competent and able to sit, any justice of the peace of the province shall be authorized to issue all process and to preside in the particular case and in the municipality in which the action shall be brought.

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