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                                   6917
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to raising the age limi-
   tation for city court judges to seventy-six years of age
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   Section 1. Section 23 of the judiciary law, as added by chapter 649 of
 the laws of 1945, is amended to read as follows:
   §  23.  Age  limitation on term of judicial office. 1. No person shall
 hold the office of judge, justice or surrogate of any court, whether  of
 record  or  not  of  record,  except a justice of the peace of a town or
 police justice of a village, longer than until and  including  the  last
 day  of  December  next  after  he OR SHE shall be seventy years of age,
 except that a judge or justice in office  or  elected  or  appointed  to
 office  at  the  effective date of this section, as to whom no provision
 limiting his OR HER right to hold  office  to  the  close  of  the  year
 following  his  OR HER attaining the age of seventy years was applicable
 prior to the effective date of this  section,  may  continue  in  office
 during the term for which he OR SHE was elected or appointed.
   2.  FOR PERSONS HOLDING THE OFFICE OF JUDGE IN EACH CITY COURT IN THIS
 STATE, INCLUDING THE CIVIL COURT AND CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY  OF  NEW
 YORK,  THE  AGE LIMITATION REFERENCED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION
 SHALL BE SEVENTY-SIX YEARS OF AGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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