Whenever the probate judge shall be absent from the county wherein he was elected, or shall be incapacitated or unable to attend to his duties from any cause whatsoever, any district judge, of said county, or any other district judge designated to hold court in said county for him, may do any and all things that could otherwise be done by said probate judge, without the necessity of having the matters or proceedings transferred from the docket of the probate court to the docket of the district court. The fact of such absence or incapacity shall be recited in every order of the district judge entered in accordance with this act [section].
History: Laws 1933, ch. 101, § 1; 1941 Comp., § 16-414; Laws 1943, ch. 65, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 16-4-14.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For performance of acts and orders when probate judge unable to act, see 45-1-307 NMSA 1978.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material in this section was inserted by the compiler. It was not enacted by the legislature and is not part of law.