Section 40
SEC. 40. Regular and acting judges of city court.&mdashThere shall be a city court for the City of Cebu consisting of five branches, for which a presiding judge and four other judges shall be appointed, to be known, respectively, as judge of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth branches. The presiding judge shall receive a salary of eight thousand four hundred pesos per annum and the other judges shall receive salaries of seven thousand eight hundred pesos each per annum. One judge shall be designated by the Secretary of Justice to try traffic cases and cases of juvenile delinquency in addition to such ordinary civil and criminal cases as may be assigned to him in the ordinary functions of the court. When the public interest so requires, the Secretary of Justice may designate any of the judges to hold sessions at night. The city court shall have the same jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases and the same incidental powers as are at present conferred by law upon municipal courts and such additional jurisdiction and powers as may hereafter be conferred upon them by law. In case of absence, sickness or incapacity of any of the judges of the city court and in case of any vacancies in such offices, the Secretary of Justice may designate any assistant fiscal in the office of the provincial fiscal of Cebu to act as judge of the city court of the City of Cebu, with all the powers of a regular judge of said court, but such acting judge shall not receive any additional compensation during the time he is acting as such. The City Council may create additional judges of the city court through appropriation ordinances as the public interest may require.