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                                  4825--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary --  commit-
   tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
   mitted 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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