§ 8-4-12. Appointment of clerk pro tempore.
In case of the death, resignation, absence, inability, or refusal to serve of any of the superior court clerks, the chief justice, or the presiding justice of the court in which the vacancy, or inability, or refusal to serve occurs, may appoint a clerk pro tempore, who shall hold his or her office until the clerk shall have returned or the inability shall have been removed or another clerk shall have been appointed to fill the vacancy and shall have qualified.
History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 55; G.L. 1909, ch. 276, § 8; G.L. 1923, ch. 326, § 8; G.L. 1938, ch. 499, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 8-4-12.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Courts
Chapter 8-4 - Clerks of Supreme and Superior Courts
Section 8-4-1. - Clerk of supreme court.
Section 8-4-2. - Appointment and term of supreme court clerk.
Section 8-4-3. - Vacancy in office of clerk.
Section 8-4-4. - Clerks of superior court.
Section 8-4-4.1. - Retirement of superior court clerks as clerks emeritus.
Section 8-4-5. - Appointment, terms, and salaries of superior court clerks.
Section 8-4-6. - Vacancies in office of superior court clerk.
Section 8-4-8. - General duties of clerks.
Section 8-4-9. - Duty to recite pleadings in record of judgment.
Section 8-4-10. - Indexing of judgment records.
Section 8-4-12. - Appointment of clerk pro tempore.
Section 8-4-13. - Qualification and compensation of clerk pro tempore.
Section 8-4-14. - Appointment of deputies.
Section 8-4-15. - Removal of deputies — Compensation — Liability for misconduct or neglect.
Section 8-4-16. - Assistant supreme court clerks.
Section 8-4-18. - Powers of assistants in Providence and Bristol counties.
Section 8-4-19. - Employment of clerical assistants in Kent, Washington, and Newport counties.