Section 12-17-20 Number of judges in each circuit. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each judicial circuit of the state shall have one resident circuit judge. (b) In the following judicial circuits, there shall be the number of resident circuit judges listed below: (1) There shall be two circuit judges in the first […]
Section 12-17-21 Judgeships to be numbered in circuits with more than one judge; candidates to designate judgeship for which they are candidate. In judicial circuits with more than one circuit judge, each judgeship shall be numbered. Candidates for the office of circuit judge in such circuits in any election shall designate the numbered judgeship for […]
Section 12-17-22 Residence. Each circuit judge must have resided in the circuit for which he is elected or appointed for at least 12 months preceding his election or appointment and must reside in such circuit during his continuance in office. (Code 1852, §§626, 643; Code 1867, §§744, 761; Code 1876, §§665, 668; Code 1886, §757; […]
Section 12-17-23 Presiding judges – How selected. The presiding judge of a circuit shall be elected by a majority vote of circuit judges in the circuit. In the event of the failure of any judge to receive a majority vote, the Supreme Court shall provide by rule for selection of the presiding judge. (Acts 1975, […]
Section 12-17-24 Presiding judges – Supervision of judges and other court personnel. The presiding circuit judge shall exercise a general supervision of the judges, clerks, registers, court reporters, bailiffs, sheriffs and other court employees of the circuit and district courts within the circuit, except employees of the clerk, and see that they attend strictly to […]
Section 12-17-24.1 Family court divisions; implementation plan. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c), the presiding circuit judge of any judicial circuit may establish by means of a written order, a family court division or divisions of the judicial circuit. The presiding circuit judge shall assign one or more of the existing circuit or district […]
Section 12-17-24.2 Jurisdiction of Family Court Division. (a) The Family Court Division of the Circuit Court of the 37th Judicial Circuit shall handle all cases and proceedings involving divorces, annulments of marriages, custody and support of children, granting and enforcement of alimony, proceedings under any reciprocal non-support act, and all other domestic and marital matters […]
Section 12-17-25 Appointment of relief judges to assist in clearing dockets. Any judge shall, whenever he deems it necessary, call on the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to assign one or more judges to relieve the judges who need assistance in clearing dockets, civil and criminal. (Acts 1915, No. 712, p. 809; Acts 1919, […]
Section 12-17-26 Authority and duties generally. Circuit judges have the following authority and duties: (1) To grant stays of proceedings and writs of certiorari, quo warranto, mandamus and all other remedial and original writs which are grantable by judges at common law. (2) To grant writs of injunction and ne exeat, returnable into the circuit […]
Section 12-17-27 Authority of judge outside own circuit. Whenever a circuit judge has jurisdiction of any case, it shall not be necessary for him to be in the judicial circuit in which the case is pending to make interlocutory or final orders or judgments in said case, but any such order or judgment may be […]
Section 12-17-28 Writs of certiorari to district and municipal courts. Judges of circuit courts may grant writs of certiorari directed to judges of district and municipal courts in all cases where appeals lie from such courts to the circuit court. (Acts 1915, No. 821, p. 941; Code 1923, §6711; Code 1940, T. 13, §184.)
Section 12-17-29 Absence of judge adjourns court. When any circuit judge fails to attend, the court stands adjourned from day to day until the judge or another circuit or special judge appears to open and hold the court. (Code 1852, §633; Code 1867, §751; Code 1876, §660; Code 1886, §759; Code 1896, §922; Code 1907, […]
Section 12-17-30 Salary; effect on other provisions; judges and district attorney’s supplements. (a) Circuit judges shall receive an annual state salary in the amount of $34,000 commencing October 1, 1979. (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Section 12-17-68 and Section 12-17-92. (c) Any salary supplement received by any circuit judge or […]
