16-1A-10. Status of judge pending criminal, removal or retirement proceedings.A judge is disqualified from acting as a judge, but shall suffer no loss of salary, while there is pending an indictment or an information charging him with a crime punishable as a felony under South Dakota or federal law, or a recommendation to the Supreme Court by the commission for his removal or retirement. Source: SL 1973, ch 136, §11.
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