No person shall be eligible to the office of judge of the municipal court unless he shall have been admitted to practice law before the courts of record of this state and is an elector of the city in which he files for office. No judge of said court during his term of office shall engage either directly or indirectly in the practice of law.

[1965 c 7 § 35.20.170. Prior: 1955 c 290 § 17.]