PRINTER'S NO. 1793
No. 1474 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY ROBERTS, CAPPELLI, CLARK, FEESE, PHILLIPS,
BELFANTI, SOLOBAY, RUBLEY, COLEMAN, WOJNAROSKI, C. WILLIAMS,
JAMES AND THOMAS, MAY 2, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MAY 2, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing certain
3 judicial vacancies to be filled by election.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
7 is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 3351.1. Certain vacancies to be filled by election.
9 When mandatory retirement provisions of law create an
10 anticipated vacancy in the office of justice, judge or district
11 justice to be filled through a regularly conducted election and
12 a proposed constitutional amendment providing that justices,
13 judges and district justices be retired on the last day of the
14 calendar year in which they attain 70 years of age is submitted
15 to the electorate at same primary election and is adopted, the
16 vacancy so created shall be filled by the concurrent election.
17 The individual elected to fill the vacancy shall take office
18 upon the retirement of the justice, judge or district justice.
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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