S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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50
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 4, 2023
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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 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. 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] SEVENTY-SIX
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] SEVENTY-SIX
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. 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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