California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1006

CA Civ Pro Code § 1006 (2017)  

When a notice of motion is given, or an order to show cause is made returnable before a judge out of court, and at the time fixed for the motion, or on the return day of the order, the judge is unable to hear the parties, the matter may be transferred by his order to some other judge, before whom it might originally have been brought.

(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1737.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018