Sec 12-128.01. Receipt of salary by judges and commissioners; affidavit; pending and undetermined causes; violation; classification

A. A superior court judge or commissioner shall not receive his salary unless such judge or commissioner either certifies that no cause before such judge or commissioner remains pending and undetermined for sixty days after it has been submitted for decision or there is submitted by the chief justice of the Arizona supreme court a certification that such superior court judge or commissioner has had a physical disability during the preceding sixty days or that good and sufficient cause exists to excuse the application of this section to particularly identified litigation then pending.

B. Any certification submitted by the chief justice pursuant to subsection A shall set forth in detail the nature and duration of the physical disability involved or the reason why subsection A should not apply to the specified pending litigation.

C. Any person who issues or causes to be issued any check, warrant or payment to a judge or commissioner knowing that, pursuant to this section, such judge or commissioner should not receive his salary is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.