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recommendations to the Supreme Judicial Court in regard to
discipline, disability, retirement or removal of justices of the
Supreme Judicial Court and the Superior Court and judges of the
District Court, and the probate courts and the Administrative
Court.

 
Sec. 4. 4 MRSA §121, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 891, Pt. A, §1, is
amended to read:

 
§121. Justice or Active Retired Justice of Superior Court

 
assigned to sit in District Court

 
A Justice or an Active Retired Justice of the Superior Court
may be assigned by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial
Court to sit in the District Court or the Administrative Court
and when so directed the justice has authority and jurisdiction
in the District Court or the Administrative Court as if the
justice were a regular judge of that court; and whenever the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court so directs, the
justice may hear all matters and issue all orders, notices,
decrees and judgments that any Judge of the District Court or the
Administrative Court is authorized to hear and issue.

 
The order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
directing a Justice or an Active Retired Justice of the Superior
Court to sit in the District Court or the Administrative Court
must be filed with the Executive Clerk of the Supreme Judicial
Court, but need not be docketed or otherwise recorded in any case
heard by that justice.

 
Sec. 5. 4 MRSA §152, sub-§5, ļO, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 392, §1, is
amended to read:

 
O. Actions in which the pleading demands a judgment:

 
(1) To exclude a person from a vested or contingent
interest in or lien upon specific property within the
State;

 
(2) That a vested or contingent interest in or lien
upon specific property within the State be enforced; or

 
(2-A)__That real property be partitioned by sale; or

 
(3) Otherwise affecting title to any real property;

 
Sec. 6. 4 MRSA §152, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 573, §1, is
amended to read:


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