§ 61. Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. “Commission” means the commission on judicial nomination. 2. “Candidate” means a person who is constitutionally eligible to hold the office of chief judge or associate judge of the court of appeals and (a) who has requested the […]
§ 62. Organization of the commission. 1. A commission on judicial nomination is hereby established. The commission shall consist of twelve members of whom four shall be appointed by the governor, four by the chief judge of the court of appeals, and one each by the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the […]
§ 63. Functions of the commission. 1. The commission shall consider and evaluate the qualifications of candidates for appointment to the offices of chief judge and associate judge of the court of appeals and, as a vacancy occurs in any such office, shall recommend to the governor persons who by their character, temperament, professional aptitude […]
§ 64. Additional functions of the commission. The commission shall have the following functions, powers and duties: 1. Establish procedures to assure that persons who may be well qualified for appointment to the court of appeals, other than those who have requested consideration or who have been recommended for consideration by others, are encouraged to […]
§ 65. Rules of the commission. 1. The commission shall adopt, and may amend, written rules of procedure not inconsistent with law. 2. Rules of the commission shall be filed with the secretary of state and the clerk of the court of appeals and shall be published in the official compilation of codes, rules and […]
§ 66. Confidentiality of proceedings and records. 1. All communications to the commission, and its proceedings, and all applications, correspondence, interviews, transcripts, reports and all other papers, files and records of the commission shall be confidential and privileged and, except for the purposes of article two hundred ten of the penal law, shall not be […]
§ 67. Breach of confidentiality of commission information. 1. Any staff member, employee or agent of the state commission on judicial nomination who violates any of the provisions of section sixty-six of this article shall be subject to a reprimand, a fine, suspension or removal by the commission. 2. Within ten days after the commission […]
§ 68. Procedures when vacancies occur. 1. Whenever a vacancy will occur in the office of chief judge or associate judge of the court of appeals by expiration of term: (a) on December thirty-first in a year fixed by the constitution for the election of the governor, the clerk of the court of appeals shall […]
