39:5-6 - Performance of ministerial acts

39:5-6.  Performance of ministerial acts    All acts, whether in connection with the taking of complaints, issuing of process, return thereof, taking of bail for appearance or committing to custody  for failure to deposit such bail and all proceedings preliminary to trial,  including the arraignment, taking of plea and postponement of trial and all  ministerial acts and proceedings subsequent to trial, may be performed by the  clerk or deputy clerk of a magistrate, and the jurisdiction so to do with  respect to a violation of this subtitle is hereby conferred.

     Amended by L.1952, c. 288, p. 975, s. 1.