Art. 4863.Determination of Recusal; Appointment of Judge Ad Hoc

Article 4863 decides who tries a motion to recuse once it clears Article 4862's screening step. The answer turns on how many judges the parish or city court has.

In a parish or city court with more than one judge, the recusal motion goes to another judge of that same court. Article 4863 leaves the mechanics of picking which of the remaining judges hears it to a rule of court, so each multi-judge court can set its own selection procedure rather than following one fixed statewide method.

Every other case — a single-judge parish or city court, or a justice of the peace, where no sister judge on the same bench is available — goes to an ad hoc judge appointed by the supreme court. That appointment is distinct from the one Article 4865 lets a judge make for their own temporary absence; here, the supreme court itself names the substitute who decides whether the sitting judge should be removed from the case.