Section 602.9202 - Definitions.

IA Code § 602.9202 (2019) (N/A)

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602.9202 Definitions.

As used in this part unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Retired senior judge” means a senior judge who has been retired from a senior judgeship as provided in section 602.9207.

2. “Roster of senior judges” means the roster maintained by the clerk of the supreme court under section 602.9203, subsection 3.

3. “Senior judge” means a supreme court judge, court of appeals judge, district court judge, district associate judge, full-time associate juvenile judge, or full-time associate probate judge, who meets the requirements of section 602.9203 and who has not been retired or removed from the roster of senior judges under section 602.9207 or 602.9208.

4. “Senior judge retirement age” means seventy-eight years of age or, if the senior judge is reappointed as a senior judge for an additional one-year term upon attaining seventy-eight years of age, and then to a succeeding one-year term, pursuant to section 602.9203, eighty years of age.

5. “Twelve-month period” means each successive one-year period commencing on the date a retired judge becomes a senior judge and while the judge continues to be a senior judge.

[C81, §605A.22]

83 Acts, ch 186, §10202(2)

CS83, §602.9202

2002 Acts, ch 1135, §56; 2008 Acts, ch 1191, §149; 2012 Acts, ch 1021, §106; 2012 Acts, ch 1138, §75

Referred to in §595.10

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