Bill Text: NY S08243 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring certain town and village justices be admitted to practice law in the state; requires town and village justices in a town or village with a high volume caseload be admitted to practice law in New York state; provides the determination of a town or village with a high volume caseload shall be made by the office of court administration in consultation with the division of criminal justice services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08243 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08243-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8243

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RYAN  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the uniform justice court  act  and  the  town  law,  in
          relation to requiring certain town and village justices be admitted to
          practice law in the state

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

     1    Section 1. Section 105 of the uniform justice court act is amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (a-1) to read as follows:
     3    (a-1)  Education.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law to the
     4  contrary, a town or village justice selected for a term of office  in  a
     5  town  or  village with a high volume caseload shall be admitted to prac-
     6  tice law in the state. For the purposes of this  subdivision,  "town  or
     7  village with a high volume caseload" shall mean the fifty highest volume
     8  caseloads  in  town and village courts in the state as determined by the
     9  office of court administration in  consultation  with  the  division  of
    10  criminal  justice services. Any change in the requirements for eligibil-
    11  ity to serve as a town or village justice in such town or village  shall
    12  take  effect  upon  commencement  of  the  next  judicial term of office
    13  following the designation as a town or village with a high volume  case-
    14  load.
    15    § 2. Section 31 of the town law is amended by adding a new subdivision
    16  2-a to read as follows:
    17    2-a.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law to the contrary, a
    18  town justice selected for a term of office in a town with a high  volume
    19  caseload,  as  determined  pursuant  to subdivision (a-1) of section one
    20  hundred five of the uniform justice court  act,  shall  be  admitted  to
    21  practice  law in the state. Any change in the requirements for eligibil-
    22  ity to serve as a town justice in  such  town  shall  take  effect  upon
    23  commencement  of  the  next judicial term of office following the desig-
    24  nation as a town with a high volume caseload.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    26  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14136-02-2