§ 111 - Superior court sessions - Vermont Statutes

§ 111. Superior court sessions

(a) A superior court shall be held in each county at the times and places appointed by law.

(b) When the business of a superior court cannot otherwise be disposed of with reasonable dispatch, by direction of the administrative judge there may be held additional sessions of that superior court simultaneously with the regular session consisting of a presiding judge and one or more assistant judges, if available.

(c) A superior court may be temporarily recessed or adjourned from the place designated for holding a regular term or session to another place in the county having adequate facilities, when the regular facilities at the county courthouse are not adequate.

(d) A superior court may be temporarily recessed or adjourned from the place designated for holding a regular term or session to another place outside the county having adequate facilities, when the regular facilities at the county courthouse are not adequate and when the court and all litigants in the case agree to said transfer.

(e) The administrative judge may assign assistant judges, with their consent, to a special assignment in a court where they have jurisdiction in another county when assistant judges of that county are unavailable or the business of the courts so require. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 11, eff. March 29, 1972; 1979, No. 181 (Adj. Sess.), § 6; 1981, No. 60; 1983, No. 201 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 27, 1984; 1999, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 73, eff. May 24, 2000.)