Name the two types of municipal courts a city may choose to have.

• A. Court of record / non-record
• B. Superior / inferior
• C. Local / county
• D. District / appellate

Answer: (A)

Municipal courts can be either a court of record or a non-record court. A court of record keeps a complete, permanent transcript of proceedings, along with a docket and official judgments. That full record is used when reviewing the case on appeal, since there is a formal, verifiable history of what happened in court. A non-record municipal court does not maintain that full formal record, so the proceedings aren’t preserved in the same way, and the appeal process is different because there isn’t a complete record to review. The city chooses which type to establish based on local needs and statutes.

Terms like superior/inferior, local/county, or district/appellate refer to other kinds of court hierarchies or jurisdictions, not to the two forms a city may select for its municipal courts.