N.Y. Const. art. VI, § 36-a: Effective date of certain amendments to articles VI and VII

§ 36-a. The amendments to the provisions of sections two, four, seven,

eight, eleven, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-six, twenty-eight, twenty-nine

and thirty of article six and to the provisions of section one of

article seven, as first proposed by a concurrent resolution passed by

the legislature in the year nineteen hundred seventy-six and entitled

"Concurrent Resolution of the Senate and Assembly proposing amendments

to articles six and seven of the constitution, in relation to the manner

of selecting judges of the court of appeals, creation of a commission on

judicial conduct and administration of the unified court system,

providing for the effectiveness of such amendments and the repeal of

subdivision c of section two, subdivision b of section seven,

subdivision b of section eleven, section twenty-two and section

twenty-eight of article six thereof relating thereto", shall become a

part of the constitution on the first day of January next after the

approval and ratification of the amendments proposed by such concurrent

resolution by the people but the provisions thereof shall not become

operative and the repeal of subdivision c of section two, section

twenty-two and section twenty-eight shall not become effective until the

first day of April next thereafter which date shall be deemed the

effective date of such amendments and the chief judge and the associate

judges of the court of appeals in office on such effective date shall

hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms. Upon

a vacancy in the office of any such judge, such vacancy shall be filled

in the manner provided in section two of article six.