ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. PA-CIR-00-12

RE: ASSIGNMENT OF CRIMINAL, JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, JUVENILE DEPENDENCY AND TRAFFIC CASES IN PASCO COUNTY

In order to provide for the orderly assignment of criminal, juvenile delinquency, juvenile dependency and traffic cases in Pasco County, it is hereby

ORDERED:
1. Circuit and county court criminal, juvenile delinquency, juvenile dependency and traffic cases relating to areas of the county situate east of U. S. Highway 41 shall be designated an East Pasco case and shall be assigned to the appropriate section and judge at the Pasco County Courthouse, Dade City, Florida.
2. Circuit and county court criminal, juvenile delinquency, juvenile dependency and traffic cases relating to areas of the county situate west of U. S. Highway 41 shall be designated a West Pasco case and shall be assigned to the appropriate section and judge at the West Pasco Judicial Center, New Port Richey, Florida.
3. This order shall not prohibit the chief judge or the Pasco Administrative Judge from assigning or reassigning cases when it is deemed necessary for the prompt and efficient administration of justice or prohibit an unassigned judge from presiding over, hearing, and disposing of cases by agreement of the affected judges.

Unnumbered Pasco Administrative Order relating to the division of East Pasco and West Pasco felony cases, dated September 6, 1973 is hereby rescinded.

DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers in St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, this 20th day of July, 2000.

_/s/_____________________
Susan F. Schaeffer, Chief Judge