610. When a municipal judge dies, resigns, is unable to exercise his functions or otherwise ceases to do so, the municipality shall forthwith notify the Minister of Justice. The Minister may, if the circumstances so require, designate, by order, a judge of another municipal court to replace him until a new judge is appointed to such court by the Government. The judge so designated is competent to hear any case that had been referred to the municipal judge.
The order shall be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 647; 1968, c. 55, s. 155; 1977, c. 16, s. 1; 1988, c. 74, s. 3.