§ 17-1-403. Sole Authority Authorizing Secretarial Assistance
It is declared to be the legislative intent that this part shall supersede any and all existing general laws authorizing secretarial assistance for trial judges and chancellors or providing for their compensation, and that this part constitutes the sole authority for such purposes.
§ 17-1-306. Death or Insanity Pending Appeal
Whenever such a vacancy arising from death or permanent insanity, evidenced by adjudication, occurs after disposition of the motion for new trial and appeal prayed and granted, but before the expiration of the time allowed for filing the bill of exceptions, the successor judge has and possesses the power to approve the bill of exceptions […]
§ 17-1-401. Provision for Secretarial Assistance
Secretarial assistance to trial judges and chancellors of courts of record whose entire compensation is paid by this state shall be provided on the basis of need by the administrative director of the courts. In addition to the judges and chancellors set out in subsection (a), the administrative director of the courts shall provide a […]
§ 17-1-402. Fixing of Salaries — Approval by Chief Justice — Payment
All salaries for secretarial positions shall be fixed within the limits of the appropriation for the salaries by the administrative director of the courts and the commissioner of finance and administration, with the approval of the chief justice of the supreme court. The salaries shall be payable in equal monthly installments out of the treasury […]
§ 17-1-204. Extraordinary Process
The judges and chancellors shall have interchangeable and concurrent jurisdiction to grant injunctions, attachments and all other extraordinary process, issuable out of, and returnable to, any of the circuit or chancery courts of this state. Upon making the requisite fiats for, and granting such extraordinary process, it shall be the duty of the judge or […]
§ 17-1-205. Appointment of Receivers
The judges of the circuit courts and chancellors may also concurrently appoint receivers in vacation, whenever necessary in the proceedings of either the circuit or chancery courts, and the clerks of the courts, when required by the fiat, shall take bond with good security, from the receiver or applicant, as the case may be, for […]
§ 17-1-206. Marriage Rites
The several judges and chancellors of this state, including retired chancellors and retired judges of courts of record of this state and persons who were members of quarterly county courts or county commissions on August 1, 1984, are authorized to solemnize the rites of matrimony. For the purposes of this section, the several judges of […]
§ 17-1-301. Vacancies in Office
If a vacancy occurs during the term of office of a judge of the supreme court, the court of appeals, or the court of criminal appeals, then the governor shall appoint a qualified person to fill the vacancy. The governor’s appointee shall be confirmed and shall stand for election in a retention election in accordance […]
§ 17-1-303. Vacancy in Office of County Judge
Whenever a vacancy, either by death, resignation or removal, occurs in the office of county judge, it shall be filled by the qualified voters of the county at the first regular election in August for any of the county officers, more than forty-five (45) days after the happening of the vacancy. In the meantime, the […]
§ 17-1-304. Powers After Vacation of Office
Whenever any trial judge vacates the office of judge for any cause whatsoever, other than the death or permanent insanity of the judge, the judge shall have and retain, as to cases pending before the judge, the trial of which has begun prior to the judge’s vacation of office, all the powers in connection with […]