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Opinion No. 32-433

Collection Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters
Date 04/12/1932
File Number 1932 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 32-433

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Opinion No. 32-433

April 12, 1932

BY: E. K. Neumann, Attorney General

TO: Mr. R. R. Posey, Attorney at Law, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

{*154} This is in reply to your letter of April 8, 1932, in which you wish to know if, in our opinion, the City Council may designate some person other than a Justice of the Peace as a Police Judge.

In so far as I have been able to determine the only power granted to them to designate anyone as a Police Judge is found in Section 90-910 of the 1929 Code, which gives them the power to designate one Justice of the Peace, who shall have such jurisdiction exclusively.

Since there is no other statute granting them the power to designate Police Judges, it is my opinion that such power is limited by the above statute, and that they cannot designate anyone other than a Justice of the Peace as Police Judge.

By: Quincy D. Adams,

Asst. Attorney General

 You are being directed to the most recent version of the statute which may not be the version considered at the time of the judgment.