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SECTION 36-A
Effective date of certain amendments to articles VI and VII
Constitution (CNS) CHAPTER , ARTICLE VI
§ 36-a. The amendments to the provisions of sections two, four, seven,
eight, eleven, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-six, twenty-eight, twenty-nine
and thirty of article six and to the provisions of section one of
article seven, as first proposed by a concurrent resolution passed by
the legislature in the year nineteen hundred seventy-six and entitled
"Concurrent Resolution of the Senate and Assembly proposing amendments
to articles six and seven of the constitution, in relation to the manner
of selecting judges of the court of appeals, creation of a commission on
judicial conduct and administration of the unified court system,
providing for the effectiveness of such amendments and the repeal of
subdivision c of section two, subdivision b of section seven,
subdivision b of section eleven, section twenty-two and section
twenty-eight of article six thereof relating thereto", shall become a
part of the constitution on the first day of January next after the
approval and ratification of the amendments proposed by such concurrent
resolution by the people but the provisions thereof shall not become
operative and the repeal of subdivision c of section two, section
twenty-two and section twenty-eight shall not become effective until the
first day of April next thereafter which date shall be deemed the
effective date of such amendments and the chief judge and the associate
judges of the court of appeals in office on such effective date shall
hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms. Upon
a vacancy in the office of any such judge, such vacancy shall be filled
in the manner provided in section two of article six.