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Magisterial judges preside over district courts that are responsible for adjudicating all traffic and non-traffic citations as well as processing criminal and private criminal complaints inclusive of arraignmentsand preliminary hearings, the handling of civil and landlord tenant complaints up to a jurisdictional limitof $12,000 as well as parking violations. All misdemeanor and felony violations are filed in the districtcourts where they are preliminarily arraigned and afforded a preliminary hearing. At the conclusion ofthe preliminary hearing, the charges are dismissed, waved to a court or held for court and referred tothe court of Common Pleas.