Pennsylvania Statutes Title 25 P.S. Elections & Electoral Districts § 3462. Substitute judges

In any case where, by reason of incompetency or any disability to act, there shall be no law judge of the judicial district in which any contest shall arise, present and able, as well as qualified to act, the judge, learned in the law, residing nearest the courthouse of the county in which, by the provisions of this article, the trial in any such case is required to be had, except in cases otherwise provided in this article, shall preside on the contest, and shall have and exercise all the powers and authority and discharge all the duties granted to or imposed upon the regular judges of the said courts in cases wherein they are qualified and required to act by the provisions of this article.