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Show County Attorney Investigates S. L. Justice Courts All Salt Lake County justices of the peace this week were ordered or-dered by Salt Lake County Attorney At-torney Frank E. Moss not to destroy de-stroy any records until they had been audited by the county auditor. audi-tor. Mr. Moss also announced he has conferred with Attorney General E. R. Callister Jr. in an attempt to tighten up methods of record keeping under existing laws. He said he intended to see if amendments should be presented to the Utah Legislature to correct cor-rect the present system which many experts in the field declare is antiquated. The county attorney noted that justice courts are not courts of record. He said that to this point investigators have found nothing in existing statutes which directs the courts to keep permanent documents. It appears that court dockets must be kept but complaints, warrants and other papers, for which the justice of the neace collects fees, are not required to be saved. Peter F, Leary, deputy county attorney who last week in,j-gated in,j-gated the procedures and recwds of one of the county's justices of the peace, said it had been determined de-termined that complaints, warrants war-rants and other similar papers had been destroyed after 30 days. It was these records and documents docu-ments that Mr. Moss this week ordered the justices of the peace to hold until an audit of the other justice of the peace records can be carried out. According to County Auditor Glen T. James, his office will audit all books and records, including in-cluding complaints and warrants if and when they are kept. Mr. James said he planned to send a deputy to each justice of the peace office to carry out an audit of his books. |