Section 51-51k-2 - Authority and duties(a) The Council is responsible for receiving and investigating complaints against judges, compensation commissioners, and family support magistrates involving conduct prohibited by statute or the Code of Judicial Conduct, in accordance with section 51-51l of the General Statutes.(b) The Council has the authority to discipline judges, compensation commissioners, and family support magistrates in accordance with section 51-51n of the General Statutes.(c) The Council may, in accordance with section 51-49 of the General Statutes, retire the chief justice or any judge of the supreme court, or the appellate court, or the superior court, or the chief state's attorney, a deputy chief state's attorney, or any state's attorney governed by section 51-49 of the General Statutes, or any public defender, chief public defender or deputy public defender governed by section 51-49 of the General Statutes, or any family support magistrate governed by section 51-49 of the General Statutes, or any compensation commissioner who has become so permanently incapacitated as to be unable to fulfill adequately the duties of such office.(d) The Council has the authority, in accordance with section 51-45c of the General Statutes, to investigate the alleged mental infirmity or mental illness or drug dependency or alcohol addiction of any judge or family support magistrate when such matter is referred to it by the chief court administrator under section 51-45b of the General Statutes.Conn. Agencies Regs. § 51-51k-2
Effective December 28, 1994