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SECTION 105
Training and education of justices; expenses thereof; requirements; restriction
Uniform Justice Court Act (UJC) CHAPTER 898, ARTICLE 1
§ 105. Training and education of justices; expenses thereof;
requirements; restriction.

(a) Training. No town or village justice selected for a term of office
commencing on or after September first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven,
except one who has been admitted to practice law in this state, shall
assume the functions of his office unless he has filed with the clerk of
his municipality a certificate of completion of a course of education
and training prescribed by the administrative board. The administrative
board may issue a temporary certificate enabling a town or village
justice to assume the functions of his office pending completion of the
earliest such course available thereafter. Such certificates shall be in
a form, and subject to terms and conditions, prescribed by the
administrative board.

(b) Expenses. Notwithstanding any other law, actual and necessary
expenses incurred by a justice or justice elect in carrying out the
foregoing requirement shall be a charge against the municipality.

(c) No town or village justice selected for a term of office
commencing on or after July first, nineteen hunded seventy-five, shall
engage in or accept any employment as a "peace officer" or a "police
officer", as those terms are defined in the criminal procedure law.

(d) No town justice selected for a term of office commencing on or
after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, shall serve as a
member of a town board in a town of the second class.