Understood, however that doesn't really address the core issue I have in that I want to reserve the utilization of CCP 170.6 and simply reject the stipend acquiescing to the use of a commissioner/judge pro tem. I understand it's a code of procedure, but the Bailiffs in question simply hand litigants who do not want to use the commissioner a pre-populated form that the litigant completes and returns to the Bailiff, that's their version of rejecting the stipend I suppose.
http://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/pls/portal...RMS/CIV249.PDF
The form in question is sdsc civ-249.
The rules in question are California Rules of Court, Rule 10.700(b) as it pertains to the scope of authority for a commissioner or judge pro tem.

