California Government Code

§ 75563

GOV § 75563 Effective Sep 27, 1994Title 8 · Ch. 11.5 · Art. 4

Statute text

A judge against whom there is pending a disciplinary proceeding that could lead to his or her removal from office or who has been removed from office for judicial misconduct, prior to the approval of his or her application for disability retirement:

(a)Shall be presumed not to be disabled and this presumption is a presumption affecting the burden of proof.

(b)Shall, in a disability retirement proceeding before the commission, be subject to the standard of proof of clear and convincing evidence sufficient to sustain a claim to a reasonable certainty.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 879, Sec. 11. Effective September 27, 1994. Operative November 9, 1994, by Sec. 16 of Ch. 879.