28 U.S.C. § 134 : US Code - Section 134: Tenure and residence of district judges

Search 28 U.S.C. § 134 : US Code - Section 134: Tenure and residence of district judges

(a) The district judges shall hold office during good behavior.
(b) Each district judge, except in the District of Columbia, the
Southern District of New York, and the Eastern District of New
York, shall reside in the district or one of the districts for
which he is appointed. Each district judge of the Southern District
of New York and the Eastern District of New York may reside within
20 miles of the district to which he or she is appointed.
(c) If the public interest and the nature of the business of a
district court require that a district judge should maintain his
abode at or near a particular place for holding court in the
district or within a particular part of the district the judicial
council of the circuit may so declare and may make an appropriate
order. If the district judges of such a district are unable to
agree as to which of them shall maintain his abode at or near the
place or within the area specified in such an order the judicial
council of the circuit may decide which of them shall do so.