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proposed, if otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible
for appointment or election as a judge of any in-
termediate court of appeal, established by law by
the General Assembly pursuant to said Section
14 A, by reason of his membership in such Gen-
eral Assembly.
SEC. 15.'°* Any Judge of the Court of Appeals
or of an intermediate court of appeal who heard
the cause below either as a trial Judge or as a
Judge of any intermediate court of appeal as the
case may be, shall not participate in the decision.
In every case an opinion, in writing, shall be filed
within three months after the argument or sub-
mission of the cause; and the judgment of the
Court of Appeals shall be final and conclusive.
SEC. 16."" Provision shall be made by Law
for publishing Reports of all causes, argued and
determined in the Court of Appeals and in the in-
termediate courts of appeal, which the Judges
thereof, respectively, shall designate as proper for
publication.
SEC. 17.'°« There shall be a Clerk of the
Court of Appeals, who shall be appointed by and
shall hold his office at the pleasure of said Court
of Appeals.
SEC. 18.'°" (A) The Court of Appeals from
time to time shall make rules and regulations to
revise the practice and procedure in and the ad-
ministration of the appellate courts and in the
other courts of this State, which shall have the
force of law until rescinded, changed or modified
by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law. The
power of courts other than the Court of Appeals
to make rules of practice and procedure, or ad-
ministrative rules, shall be subject to the rules
and regulations prescribed by the Court of
Appeals or otherwise by law.
(B)"° The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals
shall be the administrative head of the judicial
system of the State. He shall from time to time
require, from each of the judges of the Circuit
'" Thus amended by Chapter 10, Acts of 1966, ratified No-
vember 8,1966.
'"" Thus amended by Chapter 10, Acts of 1966, ratified No-
vember 8,1966.
'°* Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified No-
vember 6,1956.
'"" Thus amended by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified
November 7,1978.
"" Thus amended by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified No-
vember 7,1978.

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Courts for the several counties, of the Bench of
Baltimore City, of the District Court and of any
intermediate courts of appeal, reports as to the
judicial work and business of each of the judges
and their respective courts. He may, in case of a
vacancy, or of the illness, disqualification or other
absence of a judge or for the purpose of relieving
an accumulation of business in any court assign
any judge except a judge of the Orphans' Court
to sit temporarily in any court except an
Orphans' Court. Any judge assigned by the Chief
Judge of the Court of Appeals pursuant to this
section shall have all the power and authority
pertaining to a judge of the court to which he is
so assigned; and his power and authority shall
continue with respect to all cases (including any
motion, or other matters incidental thereto)
which may come before him by virtue of such as-
signment until his action thereon shall be com-
pleted. In the absence of the Chief Judge of the
Court of Appeals the provisions of this section
shall be applicable to the senior judge present in
said Court of Appeals. The powers of the Chief
Judge under the aforegoing provisions of this sec-
tion shall be subject to such rules and
regulations, if any, as the Court of Appeals may
make,
Part IIA — Interim Provisions.
SEC. 18B."i (a) For the purpose of
implementing the amendments to this article,
dealing with the selection and tenure of appellate
court judges, the following provisions shall gov-
ern.
(b) Each judge of an appellate court who is in
office for an elected term on the effective date of
these amendments, unless he dies, resigns, retires,
or is otherwise lawfully removed, shall continue
in office until the general election next after the
end of his elected term, or until his seventieth
birthday, whichever first occurs. His continuance
in office is then subject to the provisions of sec-
tion 5A (c) and (d) of this article, applicable to
judges of that court, but in no event shall any
judge continue in office after his seventieth birth-
day.
(c) Each judge of a court specified in subsec-
tion (b) who is in office on the effective date of
these amendments, but who has not been elected
to that office by the voters, shall, within fifteen
days after the effective date of these amendments,
be reappointed to that office. His continuance in
office is then subject to the provisions of section
"' Thus added by Chapter 551, Acts of 1975, ratified Novem-
ber 2,1976.