2011 Utah Code
Title 78A Judiciary and Judicial Administration
Chapter 2 Judicial Administration
Section 113 Judicial hiring freeze authorized.

78A-2-113. Judicial hiring freeze authorized.
(1) As used in this section, "General Fund budget deficit" means a situation where General Fund appropriations made by the Legislature for a fiscal year exceed the estimated revenues adopted by the Executive Appropriations Committee of the Legislature for the General Fund in that fiscal year.
(2) During a General Fund budget deficit, the governor, president of the Senate, speaker of the House, and chief justice of the Supreme Court, may, by unanimous vote, implement a judicial hiring freeze for judicial vacancies for:
(a) a juvenile court district with three or more juvenile court judges;
(b) a district court district with three or more district court judges;
(c) all appellate court judges; or
(d) any combination of Subsections (2)(a) through (c).
(3) In implementing a judicial hiring freeze, the governor, president of the Senate, speaker of the House, and chief justice of the Supreme Court shall:
(a) establish the length of that hiring freeze; and
(b) ensure that the hiring freeze lasts at least 90 days, but not longer than the last day of the annual general session of the Legislature.