General Provisions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 23 Cal. 4th 529 - People v. Coddington (2000)
Most recently applied in 4 Cal. 5th 1071 - People v. Adelmann (May 2018)
Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 344, Sec. 21
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The judges of each superior court having three or more judges, shall choose from their own number a presiding judge who serves as such at their pleasure. Subject to the rules of the Judicial Council, the presiding judge shall distribute the business of the court among the judges, and prescribe the order of business.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the Judicial Council may provide by rule of court for the qualifications of the presiding judge.
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