HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1109

CHAPTER 35

(Senate Bill 319)

AN ACT concerning

Recall of Former Judges

FOR the purpose of providing that a former judge may be
recalled for temporary assignment if the judge has
served a certain number of years as a judge;
eliminating the maximum age ceiling for recalled
judges; extending the number of working days that a
former judge may be temporarily assigned; and making
stylistic changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 1-302(b), (c), and (d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

1-302.

(b)  Except as provided in subsection (c) of this
section, the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals may assign
any former judge to sit temporarily in any court if the
temporary assignment is approved by the administrative judge
of the circuit in which the former judge is to be assigned
and if the former judge:

(1)  Has served in the aggregate at least [five]
3 years as a judge;

(2)  Has been approved for assignment by a
majority of the judges of the Court of Appeals;

(3)  Meets the standards established by this
section as well as any additional standards established by
rule of the Court of Appeals; and

(4)  Has consented to the assignment.

(c)  A former judge may not be recalled for temporary
assignment if THE JUDGE: