Bill Text: NY A00050 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to raising the age limitation for judges to seventy-six years of age.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A00050 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00050-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           50

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN  ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to raising the age limi-
          tation for judges to seventy-six years of age

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 23 of the judiciary law, as added by chapter 649 of
     2  the laws of 1945, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  23. Age limitation on term of judicial office. No person shall hold
     4  the office of judge, justice or  surrogate  of  any  court,  whether  of
     5  record  or  not  of  record,  except a justice of the peace of a town or
     6  police justice of a village, longer than until and  including  the  last
     7  day  of  December  next  after  he or she shall be [seventy] seventy-six
     8  years of age, except that a judge or justice in  office  or  elected  or
     9  appointed to office at the effective date of this section, as to whom no
    10  provision  limiting  his or her right to hold office to the close of the
    11  year following his or her attaining the  age  of  [seventy]  seventy-six
    12  years  was  applicable  prior to the effective date of this section, may
    13  continue in office during the term for which he or she  was  elected  or
    14  appointed.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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