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                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 3, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. CORWIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the uniform city court act, in relation to judges of the
  city  courts  in the city of Lockport and to repeal certain provisions
  of the judiciary law relating thereto

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  27  of  subdivision (d) of section 2104 of the
uniform city court act, as amended by chapter 493 of the laws  of  2006,
is amended to read as follows:
   27   Lockport, [one] TWO full-time [and one part-time];
  S  2.  The  opening  paragraph of subparagraph (iii) of paragraph 1 of
subdivision (e) of section 2104  of  the  uniform  city  court  act,  as
amended  by  chapter  493  of  the  laws  of 2006, is amended to read as
follows:
  by the mayor of the city for which the court on which he or  she  will
serve  has  been  established: part-time city court judge of Binghamton,
city court judges of Cohoes, part-time  city  court  judge  of  Dunkirk,
part-time  city  court  judge  of Fulton, city court judge of Geneva who
serves in the office that formerly was that of acting city  court  judge
of  Geneva,  city  court  judge of Hornell who serves in the office that
formerly was that of acting city court  judge  of  Hornell,  city  court
judge  of  Hudson  who  serves  in  the office that formerly was that of
acting city court judge of Hudson, part-time city court judge  of  King-
ston,  part-time  city  court  judge  of Lackawanna, city court judge of
Little Falls who serves in the office that formerly was that  of  acting
CITY  court  judge of Little Falls, [part-time city court judge of Lock-
port], city court judge of Mechanicville who serves in the  office  that
formerly was that of acting city court judge of Mechanicville, part-time
city  court  judge  of  Middletown,  part-time city court judge of Mount
Vernon, part-time city court judge of New Rochelle  and  full-time  city

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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court  judge  of  such  city who serves in the office created during the
calendar year commencing January first, two thousand one, part-time city
court judge of North Tonawanda, part-time city court  judge  of  Ogdens-
burg,  city court judge of Oneida who serves in the office that formerly
was that of acting city court judge  of  Oneida,  city  court  judge  of
Oneonta  who  serves in the office that formerly was that of acting city
court judge of Oneonta, part-time city court judge of Oswego, city court
judges of Poughkeepsie, city court judge of Rensselaer who serves in the
office that formerly was that of acting city court judge of  Rensselaer,
part-time  city  court  judge  of Saratoga Springs, part-time city court
judge of Tonawanda and city court judge of Watervliet who serves in  the
office  that formerly was that of acting city court judge of Watervliet.
Provided, however, the following special provisions shall be  applicable
in the city of Poughkeepsie:
  S  3. The 49th unnumbered clause of section 221-i of the judiciary law
is REPEALED.
  S 4. Transition. (a) Upon the effective date of this act, the position
of part-time judge of the Lockport city court shall be abolished and  be
replaced  by  a  full-time judgeship. Any person serving in the position
abolished hereby on the date of its abolition shall continue in  service
in  the  full-time judgeship that replaces it until the thirty-first day
of December next following the date on which such term of  office  would
otherwise expire.
  (b)  Upon the first occurrence of a vacancy in the office of full-time
city court judge of the city of Lockport established by subdivision  (a)
of  this  section,  the  office  shall  be filled by election for a term
commencing the first day of January next after the election.
  S 5. This act shall take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  April  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.