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757.025

757.025 Judge to file affidavit as to work done to receive salary.

757.025(1)

(1) No judge of a court of record may receive or be allowed to draw any salary, unless he or she first executes an affidavit stating that no cause or matter which has been submitted in final form to his or her court remains undecided that has been submitted for decision for 90 days, exclusive of the time that he or she has been actually disabled by sickness or unless extended by the judge under sub. (2). The affidavit shall be presented to and filed with every official who certifies in whole or in part, the judge's salary.

757.025(2)

(2) If a judge is unable to complete a decision within the 90-day period specified in sub. (1), the judge shall so certify in the record and the period is thereupon extended for one additional period of not to exceed 90 days.

757.025 - ANNOT.

History: 1977 c. 187 s. 96; Stats. 1977 s. 757.025.

757.025 - ANNOT.

NOTE: See SCR 70.36, judges' certification of status of pending cases, adopted in 118 Wis. 2d 762, at 786.

757.025 - ANNOT.

This section is an intrusion by the legislature into the exclusively judicial area of judicial decision-making and, as such, is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers doctrine. In Matter of Complaint Against Grady, 118 Wis. 2d 762, 348 N.W.2d 559 (1984).

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757.025

757.025 Judge to file affidavit as to work done to receive salary.

757.025(1)

(1) No judge of a court of record may receive or be allowed to draw any salary, unless he or she first executes an affidavit stating that no cause or matter which has been submitted in final form to his or her court remains undecided that has been submitted for decision for 90 days, exclusive of the time that he or she has been actually disabled by sickness or unless extended by the judge under sub. (2). The affidavit shall be presented to and filed with every official who certifies in whole or in part, the judge's salary.

757.025(2)

(2) If a judge is unable to complete a decision within the 90-day period specified in sub. (1), the judge shall so certify in the record and the period is thereupon extended for one additional period of not to exceed 90 days.

757.025 - ANNOT.

History: 1977 c. 187 s. 96; Stats. 1977 s. 757.025.

757.025 - ANNOT.

NOTE: See SCR 70.36, judges' certification of status of pending cases, adopted in 118 Wis. 2d 762, at 786.

757.025 - ANNOT.

This section is an intrusion by the legislature into the exclusively judicial area of judicial decision-making and, as such, is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers doctrine. In Matter of Complaint Against Grady, 118 Wis. 2d 762, 348 N.W.2d 559 (1984).

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757.025

757.025 Judge to file affidavit as to work done to receive salary.

757.025(1)

(1) No judge of a court of record may receive or be allowed to draw any salary, unless he or she first executes an affidavit stating that no cause or matter which has been submitted in final form to his or her court remains undecided that has been submitted for decision for 90 days, exclusive of the time that he or she has been actually disabled by sickness or unless extended by the judge under sub. (2). The affidavit shall be presented to and filed with every official who certifies in whole or in part, the judge's salary.

757.025(2)

(2) If a judge is unable to complete a decision within the 90-day period specified in sub. (1), the judge shall so certify in the record and the period is thereupon extended for one additional period of not to exceed 90 days.

757.025 - ANNOT.

History: 1977 c. 187 s. 96; Stats. 1977 s. 757.025.

757.025 - ANNOT.

NOTE: See SCR 70.36, judges' certification of status of pending cases, adopted in 118 Wis. 2d 762, at 786.

757.025 - ANNOT.

This section is an intrusion by the legislature into the exclusively judicial area of judicial decision-making and, as such, is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers doctrine. In Matter of Complaint Against Grady, 118 Wis. 2d 762, 348 N.W.2d 559 (1984).