What is a Municipal Remand?
A complaint is remanded to municipal court when the Prosecutor’s Office determines that the complaint can be adequately dealt with in municipal court. When a complaint is remanded to the municipal court, the original charge is amended to a disorderly persons offense and the complaint is returned to the municipal court. All further proceedings are handled in municipal court. Once a case is remanded to municipal court, the municipal prosecutor, not the County Prosecutor’s Office, handles the complaint.
