§ 20-1404-1

A person who is not a judicial officer but is a candidate for a judicial office shall comply with the standards enumerated below, and any violation of these standards shall constitute grounds for the removal by the Court on the Judiciary of a person who is not a judicial officer elected to a judicial office with or without disqualification to hold a judicial office in the future. 1. Participation, while a candidate for judicial office, in any partisan political activity. The term 'partisan political activity' as used in this paragraph shall not include attendance by a candidate for a judicial office at a political gathering, upon payment of a nominal admission fee, for the sole purpose of campaigning in his own behalf for a judicial office.2. Participation, while a candidate for a judicial office, in any election campaign other than that for his own election to a judicial office.3. While a candidate for a judicial office, making publicly known in his campaign material or speeches, or knowingly permitting others to make publicly known, either directly or by implication, his political party affiliation.Added by Laws 1979, c. 29, § 1.