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

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

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.

[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.

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