STATE OF NEW YORK
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8530
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the uniform city court act, in relation to the residence
of the part-time judge of the city court of Lackawanna; and repealing
certain sections of such law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of section 2104 of the
2 uniform city court act, as amended by chapter 138 of the laws of 2018,
3 is REPEALED.
4 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of section 2104 of the uniform
5 city court act, as amended by chapter 548 of the laws of 2013, is
6 amended to read as follows:
7 (1) be an attorney admitted to practice law in this state for at least
8 five years as of the date [he or she] such attorney commences the duties
9 of office, and be a resident of the city in which [he or she] such
10 attorney is elected or appointed, except that the judges of the Sherrill
11 city court may reside anywhere in either Oneida or Madison counties, the
12 city court judge who serves in the office that formerly was that of
13 acting judge of the Oneida city court may reside anywhere in Madison
14 county, the judges of the Peekskill city court may reside anywhere in
15 Westchester county, the city court judge who serves in the office that
16 formerly was that of acting judge of the Port Jervis city court may
17 reside anywhere in either Sullivan or Orange counties, the judges of the
18 Hudson city court may reside anywhere in Columbia county, the city court
19 judge who serves in the office that formerly was that of acting judge of
20 the Mechanicville city court may reside anywhere in Saratoga county, the
21 judges of the Ogdensburg city court may reside anywhere in St. Lawrence
22 county, the judges of the Rensselaer city court may reside anywhere in
23 Rensselaer county, the part-time judge of the Lackawanna city court may
24 reside anywhere in Erie county and one judge of the Cohoes city court
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 and the city court judge who serves in the office that formerly was that
2 of acting judge of the Watervliet city court may reside anywhere in
3 Albany county.
4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
