Regular, auxiliary and acting judges of municipal courts.
Section 75
SEC. 75. Regular, auxiliary and acting judges of municipal courts.—There shall be a municipal court for the City of Legaspi for which there shall be appointed two municipal judges to be known as judge of the first and second branch, respectively, and one auxiliary municipal judge. The municipal judges may, upon proper application be allowed a vacation of not more than thirty days every year with salary. The auxiliary municipal judge shall discharge the duties in case of absence, incapacity or inability of any one of the municipal judges until he assumes 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 Act. In case of absence, incapacity or inability, of both the municipal judges 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 the 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 Act. The justice of the peace so designated shall receive his salary as justice of the peace plus seventy per cent of the salary of the municipal judge whose office he has temporarily assumed. The municipal judges shall each receive a salary of not exceeding three thousand six hundred pesos per annum.