Indiana § 33-33-45-34 - Vacancies; meetings of commission

§ 33-33-45-34. Vacancies; meetings of commission

Sec. 34. (a) When a vacancy occurs in the superior court of Lake County, the clerk of the court shall promptly notify the chairperson and each member of the commission of the vacancy. The chairperson shall call a meeting of the commission within ten (10) days following the notice. The commission shall submit its nominations of five (5) candidates for each vacancy and certify them to the governor as promptly as possible, and not later than sixty (60) days after the vacancy occurs. When it is known that a vacancy will occur at a definite future date within the term of the governor then serving, but the vacancy has not yet occurred, the clerk shall notify the chairperson and each member of the commission immediately of the forthcoming vacancy, and the commission may within fifty (50) days of the notice of the vacancy make its nominations and submit to the governor the names of five (5) persons nominated for the forthcoming vacancy.

(b) Meetings of the commission shall be called by its chairperson or, if the chairperson fails to call a necessary meeting, upon the call of any four (4) members of the commission. The chairperson, whenever the chairperson considers a meeting necessary, or upon the request by any four (4) members of the commission for a meeting, shall give each member of the commission at least five (5) days written notice by mail of the date, time, and place of every meeting unless the commission at its previous meeting designated the date, time, and place of its next meeting.

(c) Meetings of the commission are to be held at the Lake County government center in Crown Point or another place, as the circuit court clerk of Lake County may arrange, at the direction of the chairperson of the commission.

(d) The commission may act only at a public meeting. IC 5-14-1.5 applies to meetings of the commission. The commission may not meet in executive session under IC 5-14-1.5-6.1 for the consideration of a candidate for judicial appointment.

(e) The commission may act only by the concurrence of a majority of its voting members attending a meeting. Four (4) voting members constitute a quorum at a meeting.

(f) The commission may adopt reasonable and proper rules and regulations for the conduct of its proceedings and the discharge of its duties. These rules must provide for the receipt of public testimony concerning the qualifications of candidates for nomination to the governor.

[Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-5-29.5-35.]

As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.12. Amended by P.L.201-2011, SEC.62; P.L.204-2021, SEC.7.