Bill Text: NY S03450 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires at least one supreme court justice to be assigned to hold court in each county in a judicial district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S03450 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S03450-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3450 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 22, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring the desig- nation and assignment of not less than one supreme court justice to hold court in the county seat of each county within the judicial district THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 86 of the judiciary law, 2 as amended by chapter 692 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 The justices of the appellate division in each department shall have 5 power to fix the times and places for holding special and trial terms of 6 the supreme court held therein, and to assign the justices in the 7 departments to hold such terms; or make rules therefor; and may from 8 time to time make additional appointments and designations, or change or 9 alter those already made. HOWEVER, FROM THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES OF 10 EACH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUSTICES OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION SHALL 11 DESIGNATE AND ASSIGN AT LEAST ONE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO HOLD COURT AT 12 THE COUNTY SEAT OF EACH OF THE COUNTIES IN THE JUDICIAL DISTRICT. 13 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05582-01-1