Section 36
The municipal judge shall, in addition to the qualifications required of him by the city council, qualify before the county clerk of Polk County in like manner as a justice of the peace, and thereupon, during the term of his office, shall have the jurisdiction and authority of a justice of the peace and committing magistrate for Polk County to act within the limits of Falls City, and within such limits shall exercise all of the powers and perform all the duties of such office as are prescribed in the general laws of the State of Oregon, and shall be subject to such general laws in the mode of performing them; and all judgments of said police court, when sitting as a justice of the peace, shall be of the same force and effect, and subject to the same proceedings, as judgment of justices' court.