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Assembly Bill A1620

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Increases the number of family court judges in Rockland county

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2009-A1620 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง131, Fam Ct Act

2009-A1620 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of family court judges in Rockland county from two to three; such additional family court judge shall be first elected at the general election to be held in November 2009 and shall first take office January 1, 2010.

2009-A1620 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1620

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the number of fami-
  ly court judges of Rockland County

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision (k) of section 131 of the family court act, as
added by chapter 158 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
  (k) In the county of Rockland there  shall  be  [one]  TWO  additional
family  court  [judge] JUDGES and the number of such judges now existing
is hereby increased accordingly.  The compensation of  [the]  EACH  SUCH
additional  family  court judge shall be the same as the existing family
court judge in such county.
  S 2. This act shall take effect August 1, 2009; provided however  that
the  additional  family  court judge provided for by section one of this
act shall first be elected at the general election to be held in  Novem-
ber 2009 and shall first take office January 1, 2010.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02375-01-9

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