York Cnty. C.P. Local Rules of Judicial Administration Rule 710

(A) A judge shall be available twenty-four hours a day, each day of the year, for

the purpose of considering judicial matters pursuant to law, court order or rule of

procedure.

(B) The District Court Administrator shall maintain a list of “duty” judges which

shall be updated from time to time and circulated among the Judges of the Court of

Common Pleas of York County. The District Court Administrator shall assign such

hearings and matters to the appropriate judge from that list if the judge assigned to a

matter is not available.

(C) Judges who are “on duty” for the designated time period shall insure their

availability or the availability of another common pleas judge, during normal Court

business hours, for the purpose of conducting hearings and for addressing other

matters which may need the attention of the Court and for which the judge who would

ordinarily be assigned to a matter may not be available.

(D) Individuals arrested on bench warrants of any kind issued by a Judge of the

Court of Common Pleas shall promptly, and in any event, within 72 hours of their

apprehension or by the close of the next business day, if the 72 hours expires on a non-business day, be brought before the Judge who issued the bench warrant, who shall

conduct such hearing and take such action with regard to the bench warrant as the law

requires.

(1) In the event that an individual has been arrested on more than one

bench warrant issued by different judges of the court of common pleas, the individual

may be taken before any judge who issued a warrant, who shall conduct a hearing on

all the bench warrants pursuant to which the individual was arrested.

(2) In the event that the judge or judges who issued a bench warrant are

unavailable to conduct a hearing within the time limits set forth in applicable rules and

law, then the hearing shall be conducted by the designated “duty” judge.

(3) At the conclusion of the bench warrant hearing following the disposition

of the matter, the judge immediately shall dispose of the status of the bench warrant,

using an appropriate order.