Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 3. JUDICIARY, COURTS

CHAPTER 1. COURTS AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS GENERALLY

Part 11. Judicial Standards Commission

Interim Disqualification Of Judicial Officer

3-1-1109. Interim disqualification of judicial officer. (1) A judicial officer must be disqualified from serving as a judicial officer, without loss of salary, while there is pending an indictment or an information charging the officer with a crime punishable as a felony under Montana or federal law.

(2) When the commission files with the supreme court a recommendation that a judicial officer be removed or retired, the judicial officer must be disqualified from serving as a judicial officer, without loss of salary, pending the supreme court's review of the record and proceedings.

History: En. Sec. 9, Ch. 95, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 32, Ch. 344, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 93-726; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 386, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 154, Ch. 61, L. 2007.