§ 20 — The court constituted

New York § 20

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law CRC: New York City Criminal Court Act
• Art. 2: Organization and Administration

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§ 20. The court constituted. The criminal court of the city of New\nYork is hereby established as a single, city-wide court, as provided by\nsections one and fifteen of article six of the constitution; it shall be\na part of the unified court system for the state, and a court of record\nwith such power and jurisdiction as are herein or elsewhere provided by\nlaw. It shall consist of the number of justices of the court of special\nsessions of the city of New York and magistrates of the city\nmagistrates' courts of the city of New York authorized by law on the\nfirst day of March, nineteen hundred sixty-two. Each of the justices of\nthe court of special sessions of the city of New York and each of the\nmagistrates of the magistrates' courts of the city of New York in office\non the first day of September, nineteen hundred sixty-two shall, until\nthe last day of the year in which the term for which he was appointed\nwould otherwise have expired, be a judge of the criminal court of the\ncity of New York. In addition to the judges provided for herein, there\nshall be thirty-one additional judges of the criminal court effective\nJanuary first, two thousand twenty-four. Such additional judges shall\nreceive the same compensation as the existing judges of the criminal\ncourt the city of New York.\n