Creates a fourteenth judicial district to consist of the counties of Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, and Rockland; makes the ninth judicial district solely the county of Westchester; makes related provisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6674
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. MARTUCCI -- 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 creating a fourteenth
judicial district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 70 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 690
2 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 70. Judicial departments. The state is hereby divided into four
4 judicial departments. The first department shall consist of the counties
5 embraced within the first and twelfth judicial districts; the second
6 department shall consist of the counties embraced within the second,
7 ninth, tenth, eleventh [and], thirteenth and fourteenth judicial
8 districts; the third department shall consist of the counties embraced
9 within the third, fourth and sixth judicial districts; the fourth
10 department shall consist of the counties embraced within the fifth,
11 seventh and eighth judicial districts.
12 § 2. The opening paragraph and the ninth undesignated paragraph of
13 section 140 of the judiciary law, the opening paragraph as amended by
14 chapter 690 of the laws of 2007 and the ninth undesignated paragraph as
15 amended by chapter 10 of the laws of 1948, are amended and a new four-
16 teenth undesignated paragraph is added to read as follows:
17 The state is hereby divided into [thirteen] fourteen judicial
18 districts, pursuant to the provisions of the first section of the sixth
19 article of the constitution, which districts shall be arranged as
20 follows:
21 The ninth judicial district shall consist of the [counties] county of
22 Westchester[, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland];
23 The fourteenth judicial district shall consist of the counties of
24 Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, and Rockland. The creation of such fourteenth
25 district shall not affect or impair the rights, privileges or compen-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10406-01-1
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1 sation of any officer or employee of the supreme court in office on the
2 first day of January, two thousand twenty-three in the ninth judicial
3 district as theretofore constituted; each such officer or employee
4 employed in the counties of Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, and Rockland on
5 such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the fourteenth
6 judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the
7 county of Westchester on such date shall thereafter be an officer or
8 employee for the ninth judicial district.
9 § 3. Subdivisions 9 and 13 of section 140-a of the judiciary law,
10 subdivision 9 as amended by section 1 of part XX of chapter 59 of the
11 laws of 2018 and subdivision 13 as amended by section 1 of part T of
12 chapter 39 of the laws of 2019, are amended and a new subdivision 14 is
13 added to read as follows:
14 9. Ninth district, [twenty-nine] eighteen;
15 13. Thirteenth district, five[.];
16 14. Fourteenth district, eleven.
17 § 4. 1. The following named justices or their successors in office on
18 the effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the terms
19 for which they were elected or appointed be justices of the Supreme
20 Court in and for the ninth judicial district as reconstituted and
21 continued by this act.
22 Kathie Davidson
23 Robert M. DiBella
24 David F. Everett
25 James Hubert
26 Linda S. Jamieson
27 Nancy Quinn Koba
28 Joan B. Lefkowitz
29 Lewis Lubell
30 Janet C. Malone
31 Alexandra D. Murphy
32 Robert S. Ondrovic
33 Terry Jane Ruderman
34 Mary Smith
35 Sam D. Walker
36 Gretchen M. Walsh
37 Barry E. Warhit
38 E. Loren Williams
39 Charles D. Wood
40 2. The following named justices or their successors in office on the
41 effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the terms for
42 which they were elected or appointed be justices of the Supreme Court in
43 and for the fourteenth judicial district as created and constituted by
44 this act. Any positions that were vacant on June 15, 2022 shall be
45 justices of the ninth judicial district.
46 Robert M. Berliner
47 Paul I. Marx
48 Thomas Zugibe
49 Gina C. Capone
50 Victor G. Grossman
51 Robert A. Onofry
52 Sandra Sciortino
53 Maria S. Vazquez-Doles
54 Christi J. Acker
55 Hal B. Greenwald
56 Maria G. Rosa
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1 § 5. If any provisions of any section of this act shall be held void
2 or unconstitutional, all other provisions and all other sections of this
3 act which are not expressly held to be void or unconstitutional shall
4 continue in full force and effect.
5 § 6. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.
