N.Y. Uniform District Court Act § 2603: Vote on creation of the district court system

§ 2603. Vote on creation of the district court system. At the general

election to be held in nineteen hundred sixty-two there shall be

submitted to all the electors of the various towns of Suffolk county,

including the electors within incorporated villages, the following two

propositions, provided not less than one hundred twenty days before such

election the town board of such town adopts a resolution authorizing

such submission and a copy thereof, duly certified by the clerk of such

board, shall have been filed with the board of elections of the county

and resolutions are filed by at least three contiguous towns and each

town submitting such resolution is contiguous to another town submitting

the same:

1. "Shall the town of ..... become a part of the Suffolk County

District Court System?"

2. "If the town of ... becomes a part of the Suffolk County District

Court System, shall the office of the justice of the peace be abolished

within such town?"

In any town which hereafter becomes a part of the Suffolk county

district court system wherein the voters approve the proposition to

abolish the office of justice of the peace the said office of each of

the incumbent justices of the peace shall be deemed abolished at the

time when the existing term of each such incumbent justice of the peace

expires.