Utah Admin. Code R597-6-6 - Judicial Retirements and Resignations
(1) For purposes of judicial performance evaluation, the
commission shall evaluate each judge unless the judge:
(a) provides written notice of resignation or retirement to
the appointing authority;
(b) is removed from office;
(c) becomes subject to mandatory judicial retirement due to
age;
(d) otherwise vacates the judicial office; or
(e) fails to properly file for retention.
(2) For purposes of judicial performance evaluation, when one
of the events in Subsection R597-6-6(1) occurs, then the commission shall end
its evaluation of the judge when the judge's last day in office will be:
(a) on or before December 31 of the year of the judge's
retention election, if the judge's evaluation is a retention evaluation;
or
(b) on or before April 1 of the year following the judge's
midterm survey, if the judge's evaluation is a midterm evaluation.
(3) The retention evaluation for a judge who provides written
notice of resignation or retirement following completion of the retention
evaluation but before distribution of the retention evaluation, shall be sent
to the Judicial Council.
(4) If, pursuant to Subsections R597-6-6(1)(a) and
R597-6-6(2), the commission ends the evaluation of a judge, and the judge does
not leave office as indicated, the commission may choose to publish only the
data collected before to ending the evaluation, or to complete the evaluation;
and
(a) if the judge is subject to a retention evaluation, the
commission may elect not to issue a retention recommendation, if it also notes
the reason for the election in the judge's report, as in Subsection
78A-12-206(4)(e); or
(b) if the judge is subject to a midterm evaluation, the
commission may send the report to the judge without qualifying it as a partial
midterm, as in Subsection 78A-12-203(7)(d).
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