2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 18 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
Chapter 93 - Independent Counsel
9311 - Organization of panel.

                               SUBCHAPTER B
                            GENERAL PROVISIONS

     Sec.
     9311.  Organization of panel.
     9312.  Preliminary investigation.
     9313.  Conduct of preliminary investigation.
     9314.  Determination that further investigation not warranted.
     9315.  Determination that further investigation is warranted.
     9316.  Contents of application.
     9317.  Disclosure of information.
     9318.  Limitation on judicial review.
     9319.  Duties of panel.
     § 9311.  Organization of panel.
        (a)  Composition and selection.--The Special Independent
     Prosecutor's Panel shall be composed of one judge of the
     Commonwealth Court and two judges, including senior judges, of
     the courts of common pleas of the Commonwealth. The members of
     the panel shall be chosen by lot. The procedure shall be
     determined by and supervised by the Court Administrator of
     Pennsylvania in the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania
     Courts. The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts shall
     disclose to the public the membership of the panel.
        (b)  Term of members.--Each member of the panel shall hold
     office for a term of three years. Judges who are members of the
     panel and are required to retire under section 16 of Article V
     of the Constitution of Pennsylvania shall also vacate their
     positions on the panel unless assigned under Chapter 7 of the
     Rules of Judicial Administration. A judge who is otherwise
     removed or suspended from office shall automatically forfeit the
     position held by that judge on the panel.
        (c)  Vacancies.--Any vacancy in the panel shall be filled
     only for the remainder of the three-year period in which the
     vacancy occurs and in the same manner as initial assignments to
     the panel were made.
        (d)  Decisions by majority vote.--All decisions of the panel
     shall be by majority vote of the members.
        (e)  Clerk.--The Prothonotary of Commonwealth Court shall
     serve as the clerk of the panel and shall provide such services
     as are needed by the panel.
        (f)  Restriction.--No member of the panel who participated in
     a function conferred on the panel under this chapter involving
     an independent counsel shall be eligible to participate in any
     judicial proceeding concerning a matter which involves the
     independent counsel and which involves the exercise of the
     independent counsel's official duties, regardless of whether the
     independent counsel is still serving in that office.