§ 8-3-3 — Vacancy in office or inability of chief justice of supreme court.
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Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of chief justice of the supreme
court, or whenever the chief justice shall be unable, by reason of illness or
absence, to perform the duties of his or her office, the associate justice of
the supreme court having precedence who is present and qualified to act shall
perform the duties of the office until the vacancy shall be filled or the
inability removed.