9-4-9 - Quorum of court; assignment of judges to panels; presiding judge of panel.
§ 9-4-9. Quorum of court; assignment of judges to panels; presiding judge of panel.
The Supreme Court shall prescribe rules for the submission of cases to panels of the court and to the court en banc, as well as all other rules of procedure for the Court of Appeals. The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, insofar as practicable, shall assign judges to panels in such a manner that each judge shall sit a substantially equal number of times with each other judge. The Chief Judge shall preside over any panel on which he or she shall sit, and the Chief Judge shall appoint one or more judges to preside, at the will and pleasure of the Chief Judge, over any panel on which the Chief Judge is not a member of a panel.
Sources: Laws, 1993, ch. 518, § 5, eff July 13, 1993 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the enactment of this section); Laws, 1995, ch. 357, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved March 14, 1995).