Magisterial District Office

Is a Magisterial District office a prohibited carry place? I received a traffic citation the other day and the cop advised me I had to go to the office in person to find out how much the fee would be, it wasn’t sure if this was considered a courtroom facility and carry prohibited?

Yes it is. The definition of a Court Facility is as follows, straight from the statute:

"Court facility."

The courtroom of a court of record; a courtroom of a community court;

the courtroom of a magisterial district judge

; a courtroom of the Philadelphia Municipal Court; a courtroom of the Pittsburgh Magistrates Court; a courtroom of the Traffic Court of Philadelphia; judge's chambers; witness rooms; jury deliberation rooms; attorney conference rooms; prisoner holding cells; offices of court clerks, the district attorney, the sheriff and probation and parole officers; and any adjoining corridors.

Here's the whole section:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/L...9.013.000..HTM

​Will they have storage facilities as required by the statute? Probably not.

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Originally Posted by Statkowski

Will they have storage facilities as required by the statute? Probably not.

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This is the BS part. They don't have to comply with the law but we do. I doubt there are many magistrates if at all who DO have storage.

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Originally Posted by Statkowski

Yes it is. The definition of a Court Facility is as follows, straight from the statute:

"Court facility."

The courtroom of a court of record; a courtroom of a community court;

the courtroom of a magisterial district judge

; a courtroom of the Philadelphia Municipal Court; a courtroom of the Pittsburgh Magistrates Court; a courtroom of the Traffic Court of Philadelphia; judge's chambers; witness rooms; jury deliberation rooms; attorney conference rooms; prisoner holding cells; offices of court clerks, the district attorney, the sheriff and probation and parole officers; and any adjoining corridors.

Here's the whole section:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/L...9.013.000..HTM

​Will they have storage facilities as required by the statute? Probably not.

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Ok thanks, appreciate the info!

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Originally Posted by Statkowski

​Will they have storage facilities as required by the statute? Probably not.

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Maybe. The court I work out of has one lockbox in the lobby for firearms.

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Originally Posted by t1066

Maybe. The court I work out of has one lockbox in the lobby for firearms.

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Are you the reason why its there? :)

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Originally Posted by Mr_Gixxer

This is the BS part. They don't have to comply with the law but we do. I doubt there are many magistrates if at all who DO have storage.

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They do have to comply, but many don't.

About 1/2 the ones I've been in had storage.

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Originally Posted by Royinmontco

Are you the reason why its there? :)

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Nope. I'm happy to say that it was already there the first time I showed up to introduce myself as a newly certified constable, just under 4 years ago.

Actually, the MDJ has very little say over the issue. The person you have to go after is the county's Court Administrator. Might even require a Writ of Mandamus to get it enforced. Of course, if the county administrators don't give the court administrator the funding for such........

The ones I have personally been to, do have storage.