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Annual reports for the Municipal Court date from 1945-1994; annual reports will continue to be added to the series. When Municipal Probation Services published a separate annual report, it is filed with reports for the Municipal Court. Included with this series are annual reports for the Municipal Traffic Court and Traffic Violations Bureau, dating from 1945-1968.

Municipal Traffic Court and Traffic Violations Bureau Annual Reports include information on number of cases, amount of appeals paid, and fines, forfeitures, and fees collected, as well as statistics regarding tickets issued, persons books, cars impounded, and service calls. Some reports also include narrative. Also included in some reports are statistics on the types of traffic cases tried, as well as jail sentences and license suspensions and revocations.

Police Division reports contain statistics on arrests and cases filed; the report for 1949 cites public drunkenness as the primary reason for an increase in arrests from previous years.

Municipal Court annual reports contain statistics on number of cases, number of and outcome of appeals, fines and forfeitures, monies collected for various departments, and types of cases dealt with by the Justice Court. Later reports include administrative information on the court and case loads. Beginning in 1971, reports include narrative as well as statistics.