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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