SCR66

Proposes constitutional amendment to raise the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from 70 to 75.

A Concurrent Resolution proposing an amendment to Article VI, section VI, paragraph 3 of the Constitution.

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey (the General Assembly concurring):

1. The following proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Jersey is hereby agreed to:

3. The Justices of the Supreme Court and the Judges of the Superior Court shall hold their offices for initial terms of 7 years and upon reappointment shall hold their offices during good behavior; provided however, that, upon the abolition of the juvenile and domestic relations courts or family court and county district courts as provided by law, the judges in office in those former courts who have acquired tenure and the Judges of the Superior Court who have acquired tenure as a judge in those former courts prior to appointment to the Superior Court, shall have tenure as Judges of the Superior Court. Judges of the juvenile and domestic relations courts or family court and county district courts who have not acquired tenure as a judge of those former courts shall hold their offices for the period of their respective terms which remain unexpired and shall acquire tenure upon reappointment to the Superior Court. Such justices and judges shall be retired upon attaining the age of [70] 75 years. Provisions for the pensioning of the Justices of the Supreme Court and the Judges of the Superior Court shall be made by law.

2. When this proposed amendment to the Constitution is finally agreed to pursuant to Article IX, paragraph 1 of the Constitution, it shall be submitted to the people at the next general election occurring more than three months after the final agreement and shall be published at least once in at least one newspaper of each county designated by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly and the Secretary of State, not less than three months prior to the general election.

3. This proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be submitted to the people at that election in the following manner and form:

There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at the general election, the following:

a. In every municipality in which voting machines are not used, a legend which shall immediately precede the question, as follows:

If you favor the proposition printed below make a cross (X), plus (+), or check (•) in the square opposite the word "Yes." If you are opposed thereto make a cross (X), plus (+) or check (•) in the square opposite the word "No."

		ESTABLISHES 75 AS THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT AND JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
	YES	Shall the amendment to Article VI of the State Constitution, agreed to by the Legislature, raising the mandatory retirement age for Justices of the Supreme Court and Judges of the Superior Court from 70 to 75, be approved?
		INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT
	NO	Presently, the mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices and Superior Court judges is 70 years of age. This amendment would raise the mandatory retirement age for a member of the judiciary to 75 years of age.

This proposed constitutional amendment would raise the mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices and Superior Court judges from 70 to 75 years of age.