§ 23. Age limitation on term of judicial office. No person shall hold\nthe office of judge, justice or surrogate of any court, whether of\nrecord or not of record, except a justice of the peace of a town or\npolice justice of a village, longer than until and including the last\nday of December next after he shall be seventy years of age, except that\na judge or justice in office or elected or appointed to office at the\neffective date of this section, as to whom no provision limiting his\nright to hold office to the close of the year following his attaining\nthe age of seventy years was applicable prior to the effective date of\nthis section, may continue in office during the term for which he was\nelected or appointed.\n
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