78A-12-205 - Minimum performance standards. - Utah Statutes

78A-12-205. Minimum performance standards.
(1) The commission shall establish a minimum performance standard requiring that:
(a) the judge have no more than one formal disciplinary action taken against the judge bythe Judicial Conduct Commission or the Utah Supreme Court during the judge's current term;and
(b) the judge receive a minimum score on the judicial performance survey as follows:
(i) an average score of at least a 3.0 on at least 80% of the questions, excluding litigantrespondents, for questions scored on the numerical scale; and
(ii) if the commission includes a question on the survey that does not use the numericalscale, the commission shall establish the minimum performance standard for all questions,excluding any question to litigant respondents, that do not use the numerical scale to besubstantially equivalent to the standard required under Subsection (1)(b)(i).
(2) The commission may establish an additional minimum performance standard if thecommission by at least two-thirds vote:
(a) determines that satisfaction of the standard is necessary to the satisfactoryperformance of the judge; and
(b) adopts the standard.
(3) The commission may make rules in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, UtahAdministrative Rulemaking Act, to establish a minimum performance standard.

Amended by Chapter 98, 2010 General Session