Regular, auxiliary and acting judges of the city court.
Section 75
SEC. 75. Regular, auxiliary and acting judges of the city court.—There shall be a city court for the city for which there shall be appointed a city judge and an auxiliary city judge. The city judge shall receive a salary in accordance with the provisions of Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred forty, as amended. The City Council may, when circumstances so warrant, and subject to the approval of the Secretary of Justice, appropriate the necessary amount for the establishment of another branch of the city court, the city judge and auxiliary city judge thereof to be appointed as herein provided. The auxiliary city judge shall discharge the duties of the city judge in case of absence, incapacity or inability of the latter until he assumes his post, or until a new judge shall have been appointed. During his incumbency, the auxiliary city judge shall enjoy the powers, emoluments and privileges of the city judge who shall not receive any remuneration therefor except the salary to which he is entitled. In case of absence, incapacity or inability of both the city judge and the auxiliary city judge, the Secretary of Justice shall designate the municipal judge of any of the adjoining municipalities to preside over the city court, and he shall hold office temporarily until the regular incumbent or the auxiliary city judge thereof shall have resumed office or until another judge shall have been appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Charter. The municipal judge so designated shall receive his salary as municipal judge plus fifty percent of the salary of the city judge whose office he has temporarily assumed.