Md. R. Jud. & Judi. Appts. 18-202.13

As amended through November 13, 2024

Rule 18-202.13 - Administrative Appointments

(a) In making official administrative appointments that the judicial appointee is otherwise authorized to make, a judicial appointee:

(1) shall exercise the power of appointment impartially and on the basis of merit; and

(2) shall avoid nepotism, favoritism, personal benefit, and unnecessary appointments.

(b) A judicial appointee shall not approve compensation of appointees beyond the fair value of services rendered.

Md. R. Jud. & Judi. Appts. 18-202.13

This Rule is derived from former Rule 2.13 of Rule 16-814(2016).

Adopted June 6, 2016, eff. 7/1/2016.

Committee note: This Rule may not be construed as a source of authority for judicial appointees to make administrative appointments but only as a limit on the exercise of such authority to the extent it otherwise exists.

COMMENT

[1] Consent by the parties to an appointment or an award of compensation does not relieve the judicial appointee of the obligation prescribed by section (a) of this Rule.

[2] Unless otherwise defined by law, nepotism is the appointment or hiring of any relative within the third degree of relationship to either the judicial appointee or the judicial appointee's spouse or domestic partner, or the spouse or domestic partner of such relative.

[3] Rule 18-202.13 does not apply to the appointment or compensation of an employee in the private office of a part-time judicial appointee.

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