Bill Text: NY S09231 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to age limitation on term of judicial office.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-12 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S09231 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S09231-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9231

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 12, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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 age limitation on term
          of judicial office

          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 of the court of appeals, justice  [or  surrogate  of
     5  any  court,  whether of record or not of record, except a justice of the
     6  peace of a town or police justice of a village,] of the  supreme  court,
     7  judge  of  the  court of claims, judge of the county court, judge of the
     8  surrogate's court, judge of the family court, judge of a court  for  the
     9  city  of  New York established pursuant to section fifteen of article VI
    10  of the state constitution or judge of the  district  court  longer  than
    11  until  and including the last day of December next after he or she shall
    12  be seventy years of age[, except that a judge or justice  in  office  or
    13  elected or appointed to office at the effective date of this section, as
    14  to  whom  no provision limiting his right to hold office to the close of
    15  the year following his attaining the age of seventy years was applicable
    16  prior to the effective date of this  section,  may  continue  in  office
    17  during the term for which he was elected or appointed].
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15845-01-2