§ 22. Judges of the court.
(1)Each of the judges of the court shall\nbe a resident of the city. No person, other than one who holds such\noffice on the first day of September, nineteen hundred sixty-two, may\nassume the office of judge of the court unless he has been admitted to\npractice law in this state at least ten years.\n (2) As vacancies in the office of judge occur, the mayor shall fill\nsuch vacancies by appointment. Each such appointment shall be for a term\nof ten years except that when a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by\nexpiration of term on the last day of December of any year, the\nappointment shall be for the unexpired term. The mayor shall make a\ncertificate of each appointment which shall state the title of the\noffice, the name of the appointee and the term f
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§ 22. Judges of the court. (1) Each of the judges of the court shall\nbe a resident of the city. No person, other than one who holds such\noffice on the first day of September, nineteen hundred sixty-two, may\nassume the office of judge of the court unless he has been admitted to\npractice law in this state at least ten years.\n (2) As vacancies in the office of judge occur, the mayor shall fill\nsuch vacancies by appointment. Each such appointment shall be for a term\nof ten years except that when a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by\nexpiration of term on the last day of December of any year, the\nappointment shall be for the unexpired term. The mayor shall make a\ncertificate of each appointment which shall state the title of the\noffice, the name of the appointee and the term for which he is\nappointed. Certified copies of the certificate shall be filed in the\noffices of the city clerk and of the appellate divisions of the supreme\ncourt having supervisory and administrative powers over the court, and\nthe original shall be delivered to the appointee.\n (4) No judge of the court appointed after the first day of September,\nnineteen hundred sixty-two shall hold any of the offices or trusts, or\nengage in any of the activities, prohibited by section twenty (b) of\narticle six of the constitution. Judges in office or appointed on that\ndate shall be subject to the provisions of section one hundred sixty-one\nof the New York city criminal courts act, as last amended prior to its\nrepeal herein, for the period ending the thirty-first day of August,\nnineteen hundred sixty-three, and thereafter shall be subject to the\nsaid constitutional provision in every respect.\n (5) The judges of the court shall be subject to removal and compulsory\nretirement in the manner provided in the judiciary law.\n