16-1A-10Status of judge pending criminal, removal or retirement proceedings.

A judge is disqualified from acting as a judge, but shall suffer no loss of salary, while there is pending an indictment or an information charging him with a crime punishable as a felony under South Dakota or federal law, or a recommendation to the Supreme Court by the commission for his removal or retirement.

Source: SL 1973, ch 136, § 11.