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Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.814 · Chapter 1. Court-Appointed Temporary Judges

Appointment of temporary judge

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)

An attorney may serve as a temporary judge for the court only after the court has issued an order appointing him or her to serve. Before serving, the attorney must subscribe the oath of office and must certify that he or she is aware of and will comply with applicable provisions of canon 6 of the Code of Judicial Ethics and the California Rules of Court.

Notes and commentary — not rule text

History

Rule 2.814 renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 243.15 effective July 1, 2006.

Source of truth

Edition
As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Official file
https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/two/rule2_814
Text hash
sha256 12039e28d58a4b33f84718dd9121a4f8fcb783f1a53261453af955018c86977e
Composed by
compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph

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