Senate Bill S6674

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   6674
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 11, 2021
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 Introduced  by Sen. MARTUCCI -- 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 creating a  fourteenth
   judicial district
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 70 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter  690
 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   §  70.  Judicial  departments.  The  state is hereby divided into four
 judicial departments. The first department shall consist of the counties
 embraced within the first and twelfth  judicial  districts;  the  second
 department  shall  consist  of  the counties embraced within the second,
 ninth,  tenth,  eleventh  [and],  thirteenth  AND  FOURTEENTH   judicial
 districts;  the  third department shall consist of the counties embraced
 within the third,  fourth  and  sixth  judicial  districts;  the  fourth
 department  shall  consist  of  the  counties embraced within the fifth,
 seventh and eighth judicial districts.
   § 2. The opening paragraph and the  ninth  undesignated  paragraph  of
 section  140  of  the judiciary law, the opening paragraph as amended by
 chapter 690 of the laws of 2007 and the ninth undesignated paragraph  as
 amended  by  chapter 10 of the laws of 1948, are amended and a new four-
 teenth undesignated paragraph is added to read as follows:
   The  state  is  hereby  divided  into  [thirteen]  FOURTEEN   judicial
 districts,  pursuant to the provisions of the first section of the sixth
 article of the  constitution,  which  districts  shall  be  arranged  as
 follows:
   The  ninth judicial district shall consist of the [counties] COUNTY of
 Westchester[, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland];
   THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT SHALL  CONSIST  OF  THE  COUNTIES  OF
 PUTNAM,  DUTCHESS, ORANGE, AND ROCKLAND. THE CREATION OF SUCH FOURTEENTH
 DISTRICT SHALL NOT AFFECT OR IMPAIR THE RIGHTS,  PRIVILEGES  OR  COMPEN-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD10406-01-1

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 SATION  OF ANY OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF THE SUPREME COURT IN OFFICE ON THE
 FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE IN  THE  NINTH  JUDICIAL
 DISTRICT  AS  THERETOFORE  CONSTITUTED;  EACH  SUCH  OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE
 EMPLOYED  IN  THE  COUNTIES OF PUTNAM, DUTCHESS, ORANGE, AND ROCKLAND ON
 SUCH DATE SHALL THEREAFTER BE AN OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE FOR THE  FOURTEENTH
 JUDICIAL DISTRICT AND EACH   SUCH OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE  EMPLOYED  IN  THE
 COUNTY  OF  WESTCHESTER  ON  SUCH DATE SHALL THEREAFTER BE AN OFFICER OR
 EMPLOYEE FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
   § 3. Subdivisions 9 and 13 of section  140-a  of  the  judiciary  law,
 subdivision  9  as  amended by section 1 of part XX of chapter 59 of the
 laws of 2018 and subdivision 13 as amended by section 1  of  part  T  of
 chapter  39 of the laws of 2019, are amended and a new subdivision 14 is
 added to read as follows:
   9. Ninth district, [twenty-nine] EIGHTEEN;
   13. Thirteenth district, five[.];
   14. FOURTEENTH DISTRICT, ELEVEN.
   § 4. 1. The following named justices or their successors in office  on
 the  effective date  of  this  act  shall for the remainder of the terms
 for which they were elected or appointed  be  justices  of  the  Supreme
 Court  in  and  for  the  ninth  judicial  district as reconstituted and
 continued  by this act.
 Kathie Davidson
 Robert M. DiBella
 David F. Everett
 James Hubert
 Linda S. Jamieson
 Nancy Quinn Koba
 Joan B. Lefkowitz
 Lewis Lubell
 Janet C. Malone
 Alexandra D. Murphy
 Robert S. Ondrovic
 Terry Jane Ruderman
 Mary Smith
 Sam D. Walker
 Gretchen M. Walsh
 Barry E. Warhit
 E. Loren Williams
 Charles D. Wood
   2. The following named justices or their successors in office  on  the
 effective  date  of  this  act  shall for the remainder of the terms for
 which they were elected or appointed be justices of the Supreme Court in
 and for the fourteenth judicial district as created and  constituted  by
 this  act.    Any  positions  that were vacant on June 15, 2022 shall be
 justices of the ninth judicial district.
 Robert M. Berliner
 Paul I. Marx
 Thomas Zugibe
 Gina C. Capone
 Victor G. Grossman
 Robert A. Onofry
 Sandra Sciortino
 Maria S. Vazquez-Doles
 Christi J. Acker
 Hal B. Greenwald
 Maria G. Rosa

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   § 5. If any provisions of any section of this act shall be  held  void
 or unconstitutional, all other provisions and all other sections of this
 act  which  are  not expressly held to be void or unconstitutional shall
 continue in full force and effect.
   § 6. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.