Regular, auxiliary, and acting judges of municipal courts.
Section 89
SEC. 89. Regular, auxiliary, and acting judges of municipal courts.—There shall be a municipal court for the City of Legazpi for which there shall be appointed a municipal judge and an auxiliary municipal judge. The Municipal Board may, when the circumstances so warrant and subject to the approval of the Secretary of Justice, appropriate an amount for the establishment of another branch of the municipal court, the judge and auxiliary judge thereof to be appointed as herein provided. The Municipal Judge may, upon proper application to the Secretary of Justice, be allowed a vacation of not more than thirty days every year with salary. The auxiliary municipal judge shall discharge the duties of the municipal judge in case of absence, incapacity, or inability of the latter until he resumes his post, or until a new judge shall have been appointed. During his incumbency, the auxiliary municipal judge shall enjoy the powers, emoluments and privileges of the municipal judge who shall not receive any remuneration therefor except the salary to which he is entitled by reason of his vacation provided for in this Charter. In case of absence, incapacity or inability, of both the municipal judge and the auxiliary municipal judge, the Secretary of Justice shall designate the justice of the peace of any of the adjoining municipalities to preside over the municipal court, and he shall hold office temporarily until the regular incumbent or the auxiliary judge thereof shall have resumed office, or until another judge shall have been appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Charter. The justice of the peace so designated shall receive his salary as justice of the peace plus fifty per cent of the salary of the municipal judge whose office he has temporarily assumed to. The Municipal Judge shall, receive a salary of five thousand one hundred pesos per annum.