Pennsylvania Code
Title 207 - JUDICIAL CONDUCT
Part II - CONDUCT STANDARDS
Chapter 33 - CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT
Subchapter B - FORMAL OPINIONS
- Section 99-1 - Campaign Advertising
- Section 99-2 - Reporting Suspected Tax Evasion
- Section 99-3 - Judges and the Media
- Section 00-1 - Signing Nominating Petitions
- Section 02-1 - Time Withdrawn Judicial Candidates Must End Fund Raising
- Section 11-1 - Reserved
- Section 14-1 - Social Activities
- Section 15-1 - Letters of Reference
- Section 15-2 - Affiliation with Discriminatory Organizations
- Section 15-3 - Certain Fundraising Activities
- Section 15-4 - Disqualification and Recusal
- Section 19-1 - Ethical Considerations Regarding Court-Appointed Masters, Hearing Officers and Other Quasi-Judicial Officers
- Section 21-1 - Reference Letters
This subchapter contains formal opinions issued by the Ethics Committee of the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges. Under section (8) of the preamble to the Code of Judicial Conduct, the Ethics Committee has been designated by the Supreme Court "as the approved body to render advisory opinions regarding ethical concerns involving judges, other judicial officers and judicial candidates subject to the Code of Judicial Conduct." Section (8) further explains: "Although such opinions are not, per se, binding upon the Judicial Conduct Board, the Court of Judicial Discipline or the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, action taken in reliance thereon and pursuant thereto shall be taken into account in determining whether discipline should be recommended or imposed."
