RULE 5. INTERESTED PARTY
Effective Date: 1/1/2001
Obsolete Date: 7/1/2025
A judge who is a member of the Commission or of the Supreme Court may not participate as such in any proceedings involving the judge's own discipline, censure, removal, or retirement. In proceedings involving a Justice of the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court shall appoint in the justice's place the district judge who is senior in years of service as a district judge. In proceedings involving a judge who is a member of the Commission, the chair or presiding officer of the district judges association shall appoint another of its members to serve in the judge's place in that proceeding.
Rule 5 was adopted, effective January 1, 2001; amended effective _____ to include incapacity and updated the name of the North Dakota judges association. Sources: Judiciary Standards Committee Minutes of November 1, 2024.