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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 21, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH, HYNDMAN, DeSTEFANO, WILLIAMS -- read once
   and  referred  to  the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged,
   bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
   committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the age limitation for
   judges

   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 OR A JUDGE OF A CITY COURT OUTSIDE THE CITY
 OF NEW YORK, longer than until and including the last  day  of  December
 next after [he] SUCH PERSON 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]
 SUCH  PERSON'S  right  to hold office to the close of the year following
 [his] SUCH PERSON 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] SUCH PERSON was elected or appointed.
   2. NO PERSON SHALL HOLD THE OFFICE OF JUDGE OF A  CITY  COURT  OUTSIDE
 THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK LONGER THAN UNTIL AND INCLUDING THE LAST DAY OF
 DECEMBER NEXT SUCCEEDING THE DATE WHEN SUCH PERSON SHALL BE  SEVENTY-SIX
 YEARS  OF  AGE,  EXCEPT THAT A JUDGE OF A CITY COURT OUTSIDE THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK IN OFFICE OR ELECTED OR APPOINTED TO OFFICE  AT  THE  EFFECTIVE
 DATE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  AS TO WHOM NO PROVISION LIMITING SUCH PERSON'S
 RIGHT TO HOLD OFFICE TO THE CLOSE OF  THE  YEAR  FOLLOWING  SUCH  PERSON
 ATTAINING  THE  AGE  OF  SEVENTY-SIX  YEARS  WAS APPLICABLE PRIOR TO THE
 EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, MAY CONTINUE IN  OFFICE  DURING  THE
 TERM FOR WHICH SUCH PERSON 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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