STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10514 IN ASSEMBLY May 22, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Walczyk) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the uniform city court act and the judiciary law, in relation to Watertown city court judges The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (d) of section 2104 of the uniform city court 2 act, as amended by chapter 548 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 (d) The number of judges of the city court in each city shall be as 5 provided herein. Full-time judgeships are specifically so designated, 6 all others are part-time: 7 Par. Name of city 8 1 Albany, five full-time; 9 2 Amsterdam, one full-time and one part-time; 10 3 Auburn, one full-time and one part-time; 11 4 Batavia, one full-time and one part-time; 12 5 Beacon, one full-time and one part-time; 13 6 Binghamton, three full-time; 14 7 Buffalo, fourteen full-time; 15 8 Canandaigua, one full-time and one part-time; 16 9 Cohoes, two; 17 10 Corning, one full-time and one part-time; 18 11 Cortland, one full-time and one part-time; 19 12 Dunkirk, one full-time and one part-time; 20 13 Elmira, two full-time; 21 14 Fulton, one full-time and one part-time; 22 15 Geneva, three; 23 16 Glen Cove, two; 24 17 Glens Falls, one full-time and one part-time; 25 18 Gloversville, one full-time and one part-time; 26 19 Hornell, two; 27 20 Hudson, two; 28 21 Ithaca, two full-time; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD16330-01-0

A. 10514 2 1 22 Jamestown, two full-time; 2 23 Johnstown, two; 3 24 Kingston, two full-time; 4 25 Lackawanna, one full-time and one part-time; 5 26 Little Falls, two; 6 27 Lockport, two full-time; 7 28 Long Beach, two full-time; 8 29 Mechanicville, two; 9 30 Middletown, two full-time; 10 31 Mount Vernon, three full-time and one part-time; 11 32 Newburgh, three full-time; 12 33 New Rochelle, three full-time; 13 34 Niagara Falls, four full-time; 14 35 North Tonawanda, one full-time and one part-time; 15 36 Norwich, one full-time and one part-time; 16 37 Ogdensburg, one full-time and one part-time; 17 38 Olean, one full-time and one part-time; 18 39 Oneida, one full-time and one part-time; 19 40 Oneonta, two; 20 41 Oswego, one full-time and one part-time; 21 42 Peekskill, one full-time and one part-time; 22 43 Plattsburgh, one full-time and one part-time; 23 44 Port Jervis, two; 24 45 Poughkeepsie, two full-time; 25 46 Rensselaer, two; 26 47 Rochester, ten full-time; 27 48 Rome, two full-time; 28 49 Rye, one full-time and one part-time; 29 50 Salamanca, two; 30 51 Saratoga Springs, two full-time; 31 52 Schenectady, four full-time; 32 53 Sherrill, one; 33 54 Syracuse, nine full-time; 34 55 Tonawanda, one full-time and one part-time; 35 56 Troy, two full-time and one part-time; 36 57 Utica, three full-time; 37 58 Watertown, [~~two~~] one full-time and one 38 part-time; 39 59 Watervliet, two; 40 60 White Plains, four full-time; 41 61 Yonkers, seven full-time. 42 § 2. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph 1 of subdivision (e) of section 43 2104 of the uniform city court act, as amended by chapter 455 of the 44 laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 45 (i) by the mayor of the city for which the court on which he or she 46 will serve has been established, with the advice and consent of the city 47 council: part-time city court judge of Beacon, part-time city court 48 judge of Corning, part-time city court judge of Cortland, part-time city 49 court judge of Gloversville, city court judge of Glen Cove who serves in 50 the office that on June first, two thousand one was an appointive office 51 pursuant to this subparagraph, city court judge of Jamestown who serves 52 in the office that was created during the calendar year commencing Janu- 53 ary first, two thousand thirteen, part-time city court judge of Olean, 54 city court judges of Plattsburgh, city court judge of Port Jervis who 55 serves in the office that formerly was that of acting city court judge 56 of Port Jervis, city court judges of Rye [~~and~~], the city court judge of

A. 10514 3 1 Salamanca who serves in the office that formerly was that of acting city 2 court judge of Salamanca, and the part-time city court judge of Water- 3 town who serves in the office that was full-time on March thirty-first, 4 two thousand twenty-one. 5 § 3. Section 221-i of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 548 of 6 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 7 § 221-i. Salary of judges of the city courts outside the city of New 8 York. Except as otherwise provided by chapter five hundred sixty-seven 9 of the laws of two thousand ten, the annual salary of each judge of a 10 city court outside the city of New York shall be as follows (where this 11 section provides different salaries for judicial positions on the same 12 court having the same title, the greater salary shall be paid the person 13 holding the position paid the greater salary on the day immediately 14 preceding the day on which such salaries took effect): 15 City Title 16 Albany City Court Judge (FT) 113,900 17 Amsterdam City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 18 Amsterdam City Court Judge 27,200 19 Auburn City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 20 Auburn City Court Judge 54,400 21 Batavia City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 22 Batavia City Court Judge 27,200 23 Beacon City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 24 Beacon City Court Judge 27,200 25 Binghamton City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 26 Buffalo Chief Judge (FT) 115,100 27 Buffalo City Court Judge (FT) 113,900 28 Canandaigua City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 29 Canandaigua City Court Judge 27,200 30 Cohoes City Court Judge 54,400 31 Corning City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 32 Corning City Court Judge 27,200 33 Cortland City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 34 Cortland City Court Judge 54,400 35 Dunkirk City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 36 Dunkirk City Court Judge 27,200 37 Elmira City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 38 Fulton City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 39 Fulton City Court Judge 27,200 40 Geneva City Court Judge 54,400 41 Geneva City Court Judge 27,200 42 Glen Cove City Court Judge 54,400 43 Gloversville City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 44 Gloversville City Court Judge 27,200 45 Glens Falls City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 46 Glens Falls City Court Judge 27,200 47 Hornell City Court Judge 54,400 48 Hornell City Court Judge 27,200 49 Hudson City Court Judge 54,400 50 Hudson City Court Judge 27,200 51 Ithaca City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 52 Jamestown City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 53 Johnstown City Court Judge 54,400 54 Johnstown City Court Judge 27,200

A. 10514 4 1 Kingston City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 2 Lackawanna City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 3 Lackawanna City Court Judge 54,400 4 Lockport City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 5 Long Beach City Court Judge (FT) 118,300 6 Little Falls City Court Judge 27,200 7 Mechanicville City Court Judge 27,200 8 Middletown City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 9 Mount Vernon City Court Judge (FT) 118,300 10 Mount Vernon City Court Judge 54,400 11 Newburgh City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 12 Niagara Falls Chief Judge (FT) 115,100 13 Niagara Falls City Court Judge (FT) 113,900 14 Norwich City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 15 Norwich City Court Judge 27,200 16 New Rochelle City Court Judge (FT) 118,300 17 North Tonawanda City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 18 North Tonawanda City Court Judge 54,400 19 Ogdensburg City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 20 Ogdensburg City Court Judge 27,200 21 Olean City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 22 Olean City Court Judge 27,200 23 Oneida City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 24 Oneida City Court Judge 27,200 25 Oneonta City Court Judge 54,400 26 Oneonta City Court Judge 27,200 27 Oswego City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 28 Oswego City Court Judge 27,200 29 Peekskill City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 30 Peekskill City Court Judge 54,400 31 Poughkeepsie City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 32 Plattsburgh City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 33 Plattsburgh City Court Judge 27,200 34 Port Jervis City Court Judge 54,400 35 Rensselaer City Court Judge 54,400 36 Rensselaer City Court Judge 27,200 37 Rochester Chief Judge (FT) 115,100 38 Rochester City Court Judge (FT) 113,900 39 Rome City Court Judge (FT) 113,900 40 Rye City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 41 Rye City Court Judge 54,400 42 Salamanca City Court Judge 54,400 43 Salamanca City Court Judge 27,200 44 Saratoga Springs City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 45 Schenectady City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 46 Sherrill City Court Judge 27,200 47 Syracuse Chief Judge (FT) 115,100 48 Syracuse City Court Judge (FT) 113,900 49 Tonawanda City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 50 Tonawanda City Court Judge 54,400 51 Troy City Court Judge (FT) 113,900 52 Troy City Court Judge 81,600 53 Utica Chief Judge (FT) 115,100 54 Utica City Court Judge (FT) 113,900 55 Watertown City Court Judge (FT) 108,800 56 Watertown City Court Judge 27,200

A. 10514 5 1 Watervliet City Court Judge 54,400 2 White Plains City Court Judge (FT) 116,800 3 Yonkers Chief Judge (FT) 119,500 4 Yonkers City Court Judge (FT) 118,300 5 § 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of this 6 act, on the effective date of this section, in Watertown, an acting 7 full-time judgeship shall be abolished and replaced with a part-time 8 judgeship. Any person serving in a judgeship abolished by this section 9 shall continue in service in the part-time judgeship that replaces such 10 abolished judgeship hereunder for the remainder of the term of office to 11 which he or she was selected as acting city court judge. 12 § 5. (a) In the event that the compensation to be paid a judge of a 13 city court, as prescribed by this act or any other provision of law, is 14 lower than the compensation being paid such judge immediately prior to 15 the effective date of this section, such judge shall, for as long as he 16 or she holds the office in which he or she is serving on such effective 17 date, receive such higher compensation (plus any increases thereto as 18 shall thereafter be provided by law). 19 (b) Notwithstanding any provision of this act, this act shall not 20 extend or diminish any term of judicial office commenced prior to the 21 effective date of this section. 22 § 6. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 23 the date on which it shall have become a law.

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