* * * (c) Statutes designating agent for service of process.-- All acts and parts of acts heretofore enacted which require the execution and filing with any government unit or other person of any document expressly evidencing a designation of a person to whom process may be delivered within this Commonwealth with the same effect as if served personally within this Commonwealth are hereby repealed insofar as such acts require such execution and filing in circumstances where the tribunals of this Commonwealth would exercise personal jurisdiction under Chapter 53 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes (relating to bases of jurisdiction and interstate and international procedure) notwithstanding the absence of such designation. (d) Statutes repealed by Penal Code of 1939.-- All acts and parts of acts heretofore specially repealed by section 1201 of the act of June 24, 1939 (P.L.872, No.375), known as "The Penal Code," are hereby repealed absolutely. * * * (f) Statutes vesting jurisdiction.-- All acts and parts of acts heretofore enacted are hereby repealed insofar as such acts vest jurisdiction in any court or district justice in addition to or in any manner inconsistent with the jurisdiction provided by Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, as amended hereby. * * * (k) Statutes relating to constables.-- Nothing in this act or the act to which this is a supplement shall affect existing laws relating to the election or appointment of constables or impair or limit the existing rights, powers, functions or immunities of any constable, it being hereby declared that the General Assembly intends to codify the law relating to constables in separate legislation. * * * References in Text. Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that a ny and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.
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