Section 5.
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Superior courts
There shall be in each of the organized counties of the State a superior court, for which at least one judge shall be elected by the qualified electors of the county at the general election; Provided, that for each county having a census enumeration greater that thirty thousand inhabitants, one judge of the superior court for every additional thirty thousand inhabitants, or majority fraction thereof, may be provided by law. In any county where there shall be more than one judge of the superior court, there may be as many sessions of the superior court at the same time as there are judges thereof, and the business of the court shall be so distributed and assigned by law, or in the absence of legislation therefor, by such rules and orders of the court as shall best promote and secure the convenient and expeditious transaction thereof.
The judgments, decrees, orders, and proceedings of any session of the superior court held by any one or more of the judges of such court shall be equally effectual as if all the judges of said court had presided at such session.
The first judges of the superior court shall be elected at the general election to be held under the provisions of the Enabling Act approved June 20, 1910. Their term of office shall be co-terminous with that of the Governor of the State elected at the same time. Thereafter the term of office of all judges of the superior court shall be four years, from and after the first Monday in January next succeeding their election and until their successors are elected and qualify.
All judges of the superior court shall be elected at the general State election by the qualified electors of their respective counties. The names of all candidates for the office of judge of the superior court shall be placed on the regular ballot in alphabetical order, without any partisan or other designation except the title of the office. If a vacancy occur in the office of judge of the superior court, the Governor shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy until the election and qualification of a judge to hold said office, which election shall be at the next succeeding general election, and the judge so elected shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term.