PART 2
SEARCH AND SEIZURE
617. Justice of the peace to issue search warrant
Where due to the absence in a magisterial district of a magistrate or for any other cause, it is not practicable to make immediate application to a magistrate for the issue of a search warrant and the ends of justice are likely to be defeated by the delay in making such application to a magistrate, any justice of the peace shall take the necessary complaint information, and if he or she is of the opinion that a case for doing so, has been made issue the search warrant in the same manner as a magistrate would do, but all subsequent proceedings in the case shall be taken before a magistrate.