Volume 86 · 47
Public Law 92–239
To provide for the temporary assignment of a United States magistrate from one judicial district to another.
Approved March 1, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the temporary assignment of a United States magistrate from one judicial district to another.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 636
U.S. magistrates, temporary assignment.
of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
“(e) In an emergency and upon the concurrence of the chief judges of the districts involved, a United States magistrate may be temporarily assigned to perform any of the duties specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this section in a judicial district other than the judicial district for which he has been appointed. No magistrate shall perform any of such duties in a district to which he has been temporarily assigned until an order has been issued by the chief judge of such district specifying (1) the emergency by reason of which he has been transferred, (2) the duration of his assignment, and (3) the duties which he is authorized to perform. A magistrate so assigned shall not be entitled to additional compensation but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his duties in accordance with section 635.”
Sec. 2.
The section heading of section 636 of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“§ 636. Jurisdiction, powers, and temporary assignment.”
Sec. 3.
The item relating to section 636 in the section analysis of chapter 43 of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
Approved March 1, 1972.