17-5-309 - Action of the court. - Tennessee Statutes

17-5-309. Action of the court.

(a)  At the conclusion of the hearing, the court, acting through the hearing panel, may dismiss the charges or impose any sanction authorized in § 17-5-301.

(b)  Regardless of the sanction imposed, the court shall issue a formal finding of fact and opinion.

(c)  If the court recommends the removal of a judge from office and by reason of resignation, death, retirement or otherwise the court determines that its recommendation is moot, its formal opinion shall so state. For purposes of this subsection (c), the court's removal recommendation shall be considered moot only if it determines that there is no further punitive action the general assembly could take against the judge.

[Acts 1979, ch. 356, § 19; T.C.A., § 17-819; Acts 1984, ch. 625, § 1; 1995, ch. 208, § 15; 2002, ch. 564, § 12.]