Unless the context should otherwise require, the terms set out in this section shall be construed as follows:\n(a) 'Courts not of record' shall mean all courts in the Commonwealth below the jurisdictional level of the circuit courts including general district courts and juvenile and domestic relations district courts;\n(b) 'General district courts' shall mean all courts not of record, except juvenile and domestic relations district courts in counties and cities heretofore designated as county and municipal courts;\n(c) 'Juvenile and domestic relations district courts' shall mean all courts in counties and cities heretofore designated as juvenile and domestic relations courts or regional juvenile and domestic relations courts;\n(d) 'District courts' shall mean general district courts and juvenile and domestic relations district courts;\n(e) 'County courts' and 'municipal courts' shall be deemed to refer to general district courts;\n(f) 'Juvenile and domestic relations courts' and 'regional juvenile and domestic relations courts' shall be deemed to refer to juvenile and domestic relations district courts; and\n(g) 'Chief judge' shall mean that judge so designated for a term to 'regional juvenile and domestic relations courts' shall be deemed to refer to juvenile and domestic relations district courts; and\n(g) 'Chief judge' shall mean that judge so designated for a term to assume primary administrative responsibility for the general district courts or the juvenile and domestic relations district courts in the district served by such judge.\n1972, c. 708; 1973, c. 546; 1975, c. 334.
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