N.Y. New York City Criminal Court Act § 22: Judges of the court

§ 22. Judges of the court. (1) Each of the judges of the court shall

be a resident of the city. No person, other than one who holds such

office on the first day of September, nineteen hundred sixty-two, may

assume the office of judge of the court unless he has been admitted to

practice law in this state at least ten years.

(2) As vacancies in the office of judge occur, the mayor shall fill

such vacancies by appointment. Each such appointment shall be for a term

of ten years except that when a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by

expiration of term on the last day of December of any year, the

appointment shall be for the unexpired term. The mayor shall make a

certificate of each appointment which shall state the title of the

office, the name of the appointee and the term for which he is

appointed. Certified copies of the certificate shall be filed in the

offices of the city clerk and of the appellate divisions of the supreme

court having supervisory and administrative powers over the court, and

the original shall be delivered to the appointee.

(4) No judge of the court appointed after the first day of September,

nineteen hundred sixty-two shall hold any of the offices or trusts, or

engage in any of the activities, prohibited by section twenty (b) of

article six of the constitution. Judges in office or appointed on that

date shall be subject to the provisions of section one hundred sixty-one

of the New York city criminal courts act, as last amended prior to its

repeal herein, for the period ending the thirty-first day of August,

nineteen hundred sixty-three, and thereafter shall be subject to the

said constitutional provision in every respect.

(5) The judges of the court shall be subject to removal and compulsory

retirement in the manner provided in the judiciary law.