250 MARYLAND MANUAL
Law for the assignment by the Court of Appeals of any of the
Chief Judges and any of the associate Judges of the several
Judicial Circuits of this State, including any Judge of the Court
of Appeals from Baltimore City, and any of the Judges of the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore, to sit in any other or different
Judicial Circuits for designated and limited periods, for the
purpose of relieving accumulation of business or because of the
indisposition of disqualification of any judge. And any judge
so assigned by the Court of Appeals shall have all the power
and authority pertaining to the judge of the court to which he is
assigned.
This amendment was submitted by Chapter 796 of the Acts of 1943 and
will be voted upon by the people in November, 1944
ARTICLE IV, SECTION 5.
PART 1...GENERAL
Sec. 5. Upon every occurrence or recurrence of a vacancy
through death, resignation, removal, disqualification by reason
of age or otherwise, or expiration of the term of fifteen years
of any judge, or creation of the office of any judge, or in any
other way, the Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified
to fill said office, who shall hold the same until the election and
qualification of his successor. His successor shall be elected at
the first biennial general election for Representatives in Con-
gress after the expiration of the term of fifteen years (if the
vacancy occurred in that way) or the first such general election
after one year after the occurrence of the vacancy in any other
way than through expiration of such term. Except in case of
reappointment of a judge upon expiration of his term of
fifteen years, no person shall be appointed who will become
disqualified by reason of age and thereby unable to continue
to hold office until the prescribed time when his successor
would have been elected.
This amendment was submitted by Chapter 772 of the Acts of 1943 and
will be voted upon by the people in November, 1944.
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