Incidental powers of justices of the peace and municipal courts.
Section 91
SEC. 91. Incidental powers of justices of the peace and municipal courts.—The justice of the peace and municipal courts shall have power to administer oaths and to give certificates thereof; to issue summonses, writs, warrants, executions, and all other processes necessary to enforce their orders and judgments; to compel the attendance of witnesses; to punish contempt of court by fine or imprisonment, or both, within the limitation imposed by Rules of Court, and to require of any person arrested a bond for good behavior or to keep the peace, or for the further appearance of such person before a court of competent jurisdiction. But no such bond shall be accepted unless it be executed by the person in whose behalf it is made, with sufficient surety or sureties, to be approved by said court.