The General Assembly finds and declares as follows: (1) Acting pursuant to the duties prescribed in section 903 of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, the Secretary of the Commonwealth determined that an election should be held in 2001 for the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fourteenth Judicial District. The secretary made her determination in accordance with the Constitution of Pennsylvania by anticipating the mandatory retirement of a commissioned judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fourteenth Judicial District then scheduled to occur on the judge's 70th birthday on January 6, 2002, prior to the first Monday in January in the year following the municipal election. The primary for that election was held as directed by the secretary on May 15, 2001. (2) As a result of the approval of the electors on May 15, 2001, of an amendment to section 16(b) of Article V of the Constitution of Pennsylvania altering the dates on which a justice, judge or district justice must retire from the date of his 70th birthday to the last day of the calendar year on which he reaches his 70th birthday, the secretary can no longer legally anticipate the mandatory retirement of a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fourteenth Judicial District by reason of age prior to the first Monday in January 2002, the date on which a newly elected judge would commence his elective term. (3) For these reasons, the election for the judgeship on the Court of Common Pleas of the Fourteenth Judicial District previously designated by the secretary to be conducted in the municipal election scheduled for November 7, 2001, shall be cancelled. (4) Because the primary election conducted May 15, 2001, in the Fourteenth Judicial District was properly conducted in ordinary course for an anticipated vacancy on the court of common pleas that now cannot proceed based on a change in the Constitution of Pennsylvania, it is proper and in the public interest that the person or persons nominated in the primary election held for a judgeship in the Fourteenth Judicial District on May 15, 2001, be deemed to have been nominated for the new judgeship as provided by section 2(c) of this act. 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. 2001, JUNE 25, P.L.697, NO.66 Preamble The General Assembly finds and declares as follows: (1) The willingness of antidrug and town-watch volunteers to offer their services has been increasingly deterred by a perception that they put personal assets at risk in the event of tort actions seeking damages arising from their activities as volunteers. (2) The contributions of antidrug and town-watch programs, activities and services to communities are diminished by the resulting unwillingness of individuals to serve either as volunteers or as officers, directors and trustees of nonprofit public and private organizations. (3) It is in the public interest to strike a balance between the right of a person to seek redress for injury and the right of an individual to freely give time and energy without compensation as a volunteer working to reduce crime and drug use in the community, without fear of personal liability for acts undertaken in good faith, absent willful or wanton conduct on the part of the volunteer. (4) This act is intended to encourage volunteers to contribute their services to reduce the amount of crime and drug use in their communities and at the same time provide a reasonable basis for redress of claims which may arise relating to those services. 2002, DECEMBER 9, P.L.1705, NO.215
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