HRS §602-56
Who can act when the chief judge is unavailable
This section says that if the chief judge of the intermediate appellate court cannot do a required task because the job is empty, they are sick, away, or unable, another judge chosen by the supreme court's rules can do it instead.
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The statute, as written — Absence, disability, of the chief judge
Whenever, by the provisions of any law of the State, any act is required to be prepared by the chief judge of the intermediate appellate court, the act may be performed, in case of a vacancy, or illness, absence or disability, by an associate judge designated in accordance with the rules of the supreme court.
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