California Constitution
Article VI - Judicial
Section 18.1.
Universal Citation: CA Constitution art VI § 18.1
SEC. 18.1.
The Commission on Judicial Performance shall exercise discretionary jurisdiction with regard to the oversight and discipline of subordinate judicial officers, according to the same standards, and subject to review upon petition to the Supreme Court, as specified in Section 18.
No person who has been found unfit to serve as a subordinate judicial officer after a hearing before the Commission on Judicial Performance shall have the requisite status to serve as a subordinate judicial officer.
This section does not diminish or eliminate the responsibility of a court to exercise initial jurisdiction to discipline or dismiss a subordinate judicial officer as its employee.
(Sec. 18.1 added June 2, 1998, by Prop. 221. Res.Ch. 54, 1996.)
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