794
80 Stat. 378, 948S 84 Stat. 775.
Vacancies.
Compensation.
5 USC 5332 note.
PUBLIC LAW 93-198-DEC. 24, 1973
[87 STAT.
(C) is not an officer or employee of the legislative branch or of an executive or military department or agency of the United States (listed in sections 101 and 202 of title 5 of the United States Code); and (except with respect to the person appointed or designated, according to subsection (b)(4)(D)) is not an officer or employee of the judicial branch of the United States, or an officer or employee of the District government (including its judicial branch). (2) Any vacancy on the Tenure Commission shall be filled in the same manner is which the original appointment was made. Any person so appointed to fill a vacancy occurring other than upon the expiration of a prior term shall serve only for the remainder of the unexpired term of his predecesor. (3) In addition to all other qualifications listed in this section, lawyer members of the Tenure Commission shall have the qualifications prescribed for persons appointed as judges of the District of Columbia courts. Members of the Tenure Commission shall be appointed as follows: (A) One member shall be appointed by the President of the United States. (B) Two members shall be appointed by the Board of Governors of the unified District of Columbia Bar, both or whom shall have been engaged in the practice of law in the District for at least five successive years preceding their appointment. (C) Two members shall be appointed by the Mayor, one of whom shall not be a lawyer. (D) One member shall be appointed by the Council, and shall not be a lawyer. (E) One member shall be appointed by the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and such member shall be an active or retired Federal judge serving in the District. No person may serve at the same time on both the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission and on the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. (f) Any member of the Tenure Commission who is an active or retired Federal judge shall serve without additional compensation. Other members shall receive the daily equivalent at the rate provided by grade 18 of the General Schedule, established under section 5332 of title 5 of the United States Code, while actually engaged in service for the Commission. (g) The Tenure Commission shall have the power to suspend, retire, or remove a judge of a District of Columbia court as provided in section 432. REMOVAL, SUSPENSION, A N D INVOLUNTARY RETIREMENT
SEC. 432. (a)(1) A judge of a District of Columbia court shall be removed from office upon the filing in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals by the Tenure Commission of an order of removal certifying the entry, in any court within the United States, of a final judgment of conviction oi a crime which is punishable as a felony under Federal law or which would be a felony in the District. (2) A judge of a District of Columbia court shall also be removed from office upon affirmance of an appeal from an order of removal filed in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals by the Tenure Commission (or upon expiration of the time within which such an appeal may be taken) after a determination by the Tenure Commission of— (A) willful misconduct in office,
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