HOUTZDALE- James B. Glass, District Judge 46-3-04, has release his eighth annual report to inform the public of the activities of his Houtzdale office, which in 2025 had 1,691 total offenses filed with gross receipts of $248,366.31.
Total offenses do not include 64 miscellaneous dockets or 102 arraignments, emergency PFA’s, and search warrants while on call.
Of the total offenses, traffic citations let the way with 906 cases.
Among the gross receipts collection in 2025, the following disbursements were made:
State Department of Revenue, $173,202.80 Clearfield County, $41,283.38,; and municipalities, $10,964.59.
Restitution to businesses and private individuals totaled $1,374.14 and Server fees for constable services were $6,676.25.
The twenty- seven municipalities served received the following:
Boroughs—Brisbin $116.47, Burnside $87.12, Coalport $817.23, Grampian $135.67, Houtzdale $345.14, Irvona $295.77, Mahaffey $10.00, Ramey $366.99 and Wallaceton $204.56.
Townships– Beccaria $903.52, Bell $1,949.30, Bigler $1749.06, Boggs $292.83, Burnside $55.53, Chest $50.00, Greenwood $11.84, Gulich $459.11, Jordan $515.40, Knox $195.67, Penn $154.18 and Woodward $1077.04.
Judge Glass stated this money only includes fines for violations of summary offenses and local ordinances that took place within each municipality. If a municipality has a local police department, it includes one-half of the traffic fines. Traffic violations made by the state police are sent to the Department of Revenue and then are partially refunded to the proper municipality once a year.
It should be noted that the District Justice and staff are paid a set salary from either the County of Clearfield or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and do not directly receive any money paid to the court.
The records are subject to auditing by Clearfield County, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the aforementioned political subdivisions.
All trials and hearing are open to the public and the records are available for public inspection.
