Sec. 36. (a) When a vacancy occurs in the St. Joseph superior court, the clerk of the court shall promptly notify the chairperson of the commission of the vacancy. The chairperson shall call a meeting of the commission within ten (10) days following this 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 serving governor, but the vacancy has not yet occurred, the clerk shall notify the commission immediately. The commission may within fifty (50) days of the notice of 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 the 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 time and place of every meeting unless the commission at its previous meeting designated the time and place of its next meeting.
(c) Meetings of the commission must be held at a place in:
(1) the St. Joseph County courthouse; or
(2) another building owned or operated by St. Joseph County;
in South Bend as the clerk of the St. Joseph superior court may arrange.
(d) The commission shall act only at a meeting and may act only by the concurrence of a majority of its members. Four (4) voting members are required to constitute a quorum at a meeting. The commission may adopt reasonable and proper rules and regulations for the conduct of its proceedings and the discharge of its duties.
[Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-5-40-40.]
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.12. Amended by P.L.173-2015, SEC.12; P.L.204-2021, SEC.18.