Coverage and Effective Date

I. IN GENERAL

(A) Every justice, judge, family law magistrate, active retired justice, and active retired judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, the Superior Court, and the District Court shall comply with the provisions of this Code from the time the justice, judge, or magistrate takes the oath of office.

(B) A judge of the Probate Courts shall comply with the provisions of this Code, except that a judge of probate:

(1) Is required to comply with Rules 2.10 and 3.2 only while serving as a judge, or as to matters pending in the judge’s court; and

(2) Is not required to comply with Rules 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11(B), 3.12, and 4.1(A)(1)-(4). A judge of probate shall not, however, act as a lawyer in a proceeding in which the judge has served as a judge or in any other proceeding related thereto.

II. EFFECTIVE DATE

This Code takes effect on September 1, 2015.

III. TIME FOR COMPLIANCE

All persons to whom this Code is applicable on the effective date, and all persons to whom this Code thereafter becomes applicable, shall comply immediately with all provisions of this Code except Rules 3.6, 3.8, 3.11(B), and 3.11(C), and should comply with these provisions as soon as reasonably possible and shall do so in any event within the period of one year.

IV. TITLE

This Code may be known and cited as the Maine Code of Judicial Conduct.