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	State	Statute	Description/Statute Name	Statutory language	Court/legal body	Function
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Jersey	N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2B:12-1; N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2B:12-17	Municipal court jurisdiction	A municipal court has jurisdiction over the following cases within the territorial jurisdiction of the court: a. Violations of county or municipal ordinances; b. Violations of the motor vehicle and + See more traffic laws; c. Disorderly persons offenses, petty disorderly persons offenses and other non-indictable offenses except where exclusive jurisdiction is given to the Superior Court; d. Violations of the fish and game laws; e. Proceedings to collect a penalty where jurisdiction is granted by statute; f. Violations of laws regulating boating; and g. Any other proceedings where jurisdiction is granted by statute; A municipal court has jurisdiction over the following cases within the territorial jurisdiction of the court: a. Violations of county or municipal ordinances; b. Violations of the motor vehicle and traffic laws; c. Disorderly persons offenses, petty disorderly persons offenses and other non-indictable offenses except where exclusive jurisdiction is given to the Superior Court; d. Violations of the fish and game laws; e. Proceedings to collect a penalty where jurisdiction is granted by statute; f. Violations of laws regulating boating; and g. Any other proceedings where jurisdiction is granted by statute.	Municipal Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Jersey	N.J. Const. art. VI, § 3	State superior court jurisdiction	The Superior Court shall consist of such number of judges as may be authorized by law, each of whom shall exercise the powers of the court subject to rules of the + See more Supreme Court. The Superior Court shall at all times consist of at least two judges who shall be assigned to sit in each of the counties of this State, and who are resident therein at the time of appointment and reappointment. The Superior Court shall have original general jurisdiction throughout the State in all causes	State Superior Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Jersey	N.J. Const. art. VI, § 3	appellate court jurisdiction	The Superior Court shall be divided into an Appellate Division, a Law Division, and a Chancery Division, which shall include a family part. Each division shall have such other parts, consist of + See more such number of judges, and hear such causes, as may be provided by rules of the Supreme Court. At least two judges of the Superior Court shall at all times be assigned to sit in each of the counties of the State, who at the time of their appointment and reappointment were residents of that county provided, however, that the number of judges required to reside in the county wherein they sit shall be at least equal in number to the number of judges of the county court sitting in each of the counties at the adoption of this amendment.	Appellate Division	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	New Jersey	N.J. Const. art. VI, § 1	Supreme Court jurisdiction	The judicial power shall be vested in a Supreme Court, a Superior Court, and other courts of limited jurisdiction. The other courts and their jurisdiction may from time to time + See more be established, altered or abolished by law.	New Jersey Supreme Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oklahoma	Okla. Stat. tit. 20, § 40	Appellate Jurisdiction	The Court of Criminal Appeals shall have exclusive appellate jurisdiction, coextensive with the limits of the state, in all criminal cases appealed from the district, superior and county courts, and + See more such other courts of record as may be established by law.	Court of Criminal Appeals	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oklahoma	Okla. Stat. tit. 20, § 91.1	District courts as successors to jurisdiction of various other courts	The district courts of the State of Oklahoma are the successors to the jurisdiction of all other courts, including the Superior Courts, the County Courts, the Courts of Common Pleas, + See more Special Sessions Courts, Courts of Special Sessions, City Courts, Juvenile Courts, Children's Courts, Justice of the Peace Courts, and municipal courts in civil matters and proceedings for the violation of state statutes. Wherever reference is made in the Oklahoma Statutes to any of the above courts or to the judge thereof, it shall be deemed to refer to the district court or a judge thereof; provided, however, that any statute that refers to the salary of the judge of any Superior Court, Court of Common Pleas, County Court, Juvenile Court, or Children's Court, insofar as that portion of the statute dealing with salary is concerned, shall not be deemed to refer to any district judge, associate district judge or special judge, and any salary mentioned in such statute shall not be paid to the judge who succeeded to the jurisdiction of the judge who is named in the statute.	District Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oklahoma	Okla. Stat. tit. 22, § 471.1	Authorization of Drug Court Programs	Each district court of this state is authorized to establish a drug court program pursuant to the provisions of this act, subject to availability of funds. Juvenile drug courts may + See more be established based upon the provisions of this act; provided, however, juveniles shall not be held, processed, or treated in any manner which violates any provision of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes.	District Court	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oklahoma	Okla. Stat. tit. 22, § 472	Anna McBride Act--Mental health courts	Any district or municipal court of this state may establish a mental health court program pursuant to the provisions of this section, subject to the availability of funds.	District Court or Municipal Court	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Oklahoma	Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 28-102	Jurisdiction of criminal court of record--Jury trial--Maximum punishment--Double jeopardy	he municipal criminal courts of record shall have original jurisdiction to hear and determine all prosecutions when a violation of any of the ordinances of the city where the court + See more is established is charged, as provided by Article VII, Section 1 of the Oklahoma Constitution.	Municipal Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Vermont	Vt. Const. ch. 2 § 4	Judiciary powers	The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a unified judicial system which shall be composed of a Supreme Court, a Superior Court, and such other subordinate courts + See more as the General Assembly may from time to time ordain and establish.	State courts	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Vermont	Vt. Const. ch. 2 § 30	Supreme court jurisdiction	The Supreme Court shall exercise appellate jurisdiction in all cases, criminal and civil, under such terms and conditions as it shall specify in rules not inconsistent with law. The Supreme + See more Court shall have original jurisdiction only as provided by law, but it shall have the power to issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of its appellate jurisdiction. The Supreme Court shall have administrative control of all the courts of the state, and disciplinary authority concerning all judicial officers and attorneys at law in the State.	Supreme Court	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Vermont	Vt. Const. ch. 2 § 31	Lower courts jurisdiction	All other courts of this State shall have original and appellate jurisdiction as provided by law. All courts except the Supreme Court may be divided into geographical and functional divisions + See more as provided by law or by judicial rules adopted by the Supreme Court not inconsistent with law. The jurisdiction of geographical and functional divisions shall be as provided by law or by judicial rules not inconsistent with law. The courts of this state may exercise equity jurisdiction as well as law jurisdiction in civil proceedings as may be provided by law or by judicial rules not inconsistent with law.	Lower courts	Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Vermont	Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 4 § 1	Unified court system established	The Judiciary shall be a unified court system under the administrative control of the Supreme Court. It shall consist of an appellate division, which shall be the Supreme Court, and + See more a trial division, which shall consist of a trial court of general jurisdiction to be known as the Superior Court, and a Judicial Bureau.	State courts	Creation of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Vermont	Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 4 § 30	Superior Court	(a)(1) A Superior Court having statewide jurisdiction is created. The Superior Court shall have the following divisions: (B) A Criminal Division, which shall be a court of record and have + See more jurisdiction over the matters described in section 32 of this title. The Vermont Rules of Criminal Procedure shall apply to criminal matters in the Criminal Division, and the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure shall apply to civil matters in the Criminal Division.	Superior Court	Creation of the courts, Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Vermont	Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 4 § 2	Supreme Court established; jurisdiction	(a) The Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of appeals from judgments, rulings, and orders of the Superior Court, administrative agencies, boards, commissions, and officers unless otherwise provided by law.+ See more /> (b) The Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction, concurrent with the Superior Court, of proceedings in certiorari, mandamus, prohibition, and quo warranto and shall have jurisdiction to issue all writs, processes, and orders that may be necessary to the furtherance of justice and the regular execution of the law.	Supreme Court	Creation of the courts, Jurisdiction of the courts
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Vermont	Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 4 § 32	Jurisdiction; Criminal Division	(a) The Criminal Division shall have jurisdiction to try, render judgment, and pass sentence in prosecutions for felonies and misdemeanors. (b) The Criminal Division shall have jurisdiction to try and + See more finally determine prosecutions for violations of bylaws or ordinances of a village, town, or city, except as otherwise provided.	Supreme Court	Jurisdiction of the courts

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