S 4825: Provides that a judge of a city court outside the city of New York may only serve until the last day of December next after such person shall be seventy-six years of age; makes exceptions for judges already elected or appointed to office.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4825 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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: 1 Section 1. Section 23 of the judiciary law, as added by chapter 649 of 2 the laws of 1945, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 23. Age limitation on term of judicial office. No person shall hold 4 the office of judge, justice or surrogate of any court, whether of 5 record or not of record, except a justice of the peace of a town or 6 police justice of a village, longer than until and including the last 7 day of December next after [he] such person shall be [seventy] seventy- 8 six years of age, except that a judge or justice in office or elected or 9 appointed to office at the effective date of this section, as to whom no 10 provision limiting [his] such person's right to hold office to the close 11 of the year following [his] such person attaining the age of [seventy] 12 seventy-six years was applicable prior to the effective date of this 13 section, may continue in office during the term for which [he] such 14 person was elected or appointed. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01167-01-5