Bill Text: NY S02328 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides an exemption from service as a juror for persons seventy years of age or older where such person claims an exemption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S02328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S02328-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2328
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 18, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen. PADAVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
       AN ACT to amend the judiciary law,  in  relation  to  providing  persons
         seventy  years  of  age  or  older with an exemption from service as a
         juror
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section 512 to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S  512.  EXEMPTION.  A  PERSON  SEVENTY YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER SHALL BE
    4  EXEMPT FROM SERVICE AS A JUROR UPON CLAIMING EXEMPTION THEREFROM.
    5    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    6  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09389-01-9