(a) Assignment of Username and Password. The State Court Administrator shall assign to each judge, judicial appointee, clerk, and judicial personnel a username and password that will allow that individual to access the MDEC System to the extent necessary to the performance of his or her official duties.

Committee note: The access permitted under section (a) of this Rule is limited to that necessary to the performance of official duties. A judicial official or employee who desires access for personal reasons, such as to file submissions as a self-represented litigant, must become a registered user and proceed as such. The State Court Administrator may permit a senior judge to continue to use the username and password the senior judge used while an incumbent judge so long as he or she remains a senior judge.

(b) Revocation. Subject to section (a) of this Rule, upon notice that a judge, senior judge, judicial appointee, clerk, or judicial personnel has retired, resigned, or otherwise left office and, as a result, no longer has a need to access the MDEC System to perform official duties under this Rule, the State Court Administrator shall revoke the individual's username and password, terminate the right of access allowed thereby, and inform the judge, senior judge, judicial appointee, clerk or judicial personnel of the right to apply for user registration under Rule 20-104.

Source: This Rule is new.