{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-51-50l","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 51-50l","heading":"Retired senior judges eligible for appointment as state referees.","body":"(a) Each senior judge who ceases to hold office as a senior judge because of having reached the age of seventy years and who is an elector and a resident of this state shall be a state referee for the remainder of his term of office as a judge and shall be eligible for appointment as a state referee during the remainder of his life in the manner prescribed by law for the appointment of a judge of the court of which he is a member.\n(b) Each such judge who was a judge of the Superior Court or the Court of Common Pleas may exercise, as shall be prescribed by law, the powers of a judge of the Superior Court on matters referred to him as a state referee by the Chief Court Administrator as provided in section 2 of article eighth of the amendments to the Constitution of this state.","path":["TITLE 51. COURTS","CHAPTER 872*. JUDGES"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_872.htm#sec_51-50l","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:17Z","sha256":"932930805c03a61e7b0740a2746d248e3b9f0c8064e47845f3f742dad19fbf5b","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-51-50k","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-51-51"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}