If a recount or recheck is demanded on the election of a district judge and the judge of the district was a candidate for partisan office at the election, the chief justice of the supreme court shall designate a district judge who shall act in such proceedings.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-14-23, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 348; 1977, ch. 222, § 87; 2015, ch. 145, § 76.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, clarified that the provision applies to a candidate for a partisan office; and after "candidate", added "for partisan office".