When a vacancy occurs or will occur within one hundred twenty days in the supreme court, the court of appeals, or district court, the state commissioner of elections shall forthwith so notify the chairperson of the proper judicial nominating commission, unless the chief justice has ordered the state commissioner of elections to delay sending the notification. The chief justice may order the delay for up to one hundred eighty days for budgetary reasons. The chairperson shall call a meeting of the commission within ten days after such notice; if the chairperson fails to do so, the chief justice shall call such meeting.
When a judge of the supreme court, court of appeals, or district court resigns, the judge shall submit a copy of the resignation to the state commissioner of elections at the time the judge submits the resignation to the governor; and when a judge of the supreme court, court of appeals, or district court dies, the clerk of district court of the county of the judge's residence shall in writing forthwith notify the state commissioner of elections of such fact.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 46.12]
89 Acts, ch 18, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 151, §1
For future repeal of 2003 amendment to unnumbered paragraph 1, effective July 1, 2006, see 2003 Acts, ch 151, §64
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