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  1. Overview: Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
  2. Full Record: Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
  3. Committee:Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1895-04-22 09:40:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)

Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah

Committee of the Whole

The Committee of the Whole was created with the permanent adoption of rule five in the Standing Rules of the Convention of the State of Utah.

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Session 7666: 1895-04-22 09:40:00

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Article on Judiciary [Article No. 18.2]

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Judicial Department

Section 1. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in the senate sitting as a court of impeachment, in a supreme court, in district courts, in justices of the peace, and such other courts inferior to the supreme courts as may be established by law.

Section 2. The Supreme Court shall consist of three judges; but after the year A.D. 1905 the legislature may increase the number thereof to five. A majority of the judges constituting the court shall be necessary to make a quorum or pronounce a decision. If for any cause a justice of the supreme court shall be disqualified from sitting in a cause before said court, the remaining judges shall call a district judge to sit with them on the hearing of such cause. The judges of the supreme court shall be elected by the electors of the state at large. The term of office of the judge of the supreme court, excepting as in this article otherwise provided, shall be six years. The judges of the supreme court, shall immediately after the first election under this constitution be selected by lot, so that one shall hold his office for the term of three years, and one for the term of five years, and one for the term of seven years. The lots shall be drawn by the judges of the supreme court, who shall for that purpose assemble at the seat of government and they shall cause the result thereof to be certified by the Secretary of State and filed in his office. The judge having the shortest term to serve, not holding his office by appointment or election to fill a vacancy, shall be the Chief Justice and shall preside at all terms of the supreme court, and in case of his absence the judge having in like manner the next shortest term shall preside in his stead.

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