Provisions
VI.13 of 1870 • Judges, how chosen; term of office.
APPROVED
The Text
Justices of the supreme court shall be chosen by the electors of their respective judicial districts. Judges of all the courts mentioned in the last preceding section shall be chosen by the electors of the cities respectively in which the said courts are instituted. The official terms of the said justices and judges who shall be elected after the adoption of this article, shall be fourteen years from and including the first day of January next after their election. But no person shall hold the office of justice or judge of any court longer than until and including the last day of December next after he shall be seventy years of age.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1870
• In Article VI:
• Has 112 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 2 of 1869
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1847-VI.12
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