20-3007. Vacancy in office of judge of court of appeals; nominations for successor by supreme court nominating commission; time for submission of nominees to governor.
20-3007
20-3007. Vacancy in office of judge of court of appeals; nominationsfor successor by supreme court nominating commission; time for submissionof nominees to governor.Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of judge of the court ofappeals, or whenever a vacancy will occur in such office on a specifiedfuture date, the clerk of the supreme court promptly shall give notice ofsuch vacancy to the chairman of the supreme court nominating commission.Said chairman shall call a meeting of the commission for the purpose ofnominating persons for appointment to such office. It shall be the duty ofthe commission to nominate three (3) such persons for each office which isvacant and to submit the names of the persons so nominated to the governor.
In order that a vacancy in the office of judge of the court of appealsdoes not exist for an inordinate length of time, the commission shallconduct the business of selecting nominees for appointment to such officeand certifying the same to the governor as promptly and expeditiously aspossible, having due regard for the importance of selecting the bestpossible nominees, and in no event shall the commission submit itsnominations to the governor more than sixty (60) days prior to nor morethan sixty (60) days after the date a vacancy occurs or will occur.
History: L. 1975, ch. 178, § 7; July 1.