Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 78A-10a-202 - Time periods - Recruitment period for judicial vacancy - Convening a judicial nominating commission(1)(a) Unless a hiring freeze is implemented in accordance with Section 78A-2-113, the governor shall ensure that: (i) except as provided in Subsection (1)(a)(ii), the recruitment period to fill a judicial vacancy begins 235 days before the effective date of the judicial vacancy;(ii) if sufficient notice of a judicial vacancy is not given to the governor, the recruitment period to fill a judicial vacancy begins within 10 days after the day on which the governor receives notice;(iii) except as provided in Subsection (1)(b), the recruitment period is a minimum of at least 30 days but no more than 90 days; and(iv) the chair of the commission having authority over the vacancy convenes a meeting no more than 10 days after the close of the recruitment period.(b) If fewer than nine applications are received for a judicial vacancy, the governor may extend the recruitment period described in Subsection (1)(a)(iii) up to 30 days.(2) If there is a hiring freeze implemented in accordance with Section 78A-2-113, the time periods described in Subsection (1) shall begin to run on the day that the hiring freeze ends.Added by Chapter 250, 2023 General Session ,§ 11, eff. 5/3/2023.