Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment VIII

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Amendment VIII Ratified amendment and publisher annotations.

ARTICLE VIII.*
*Adopted November 27, 1974.
(Justices of the Peace.)
Section 1. Section 5 of article fifth of the Constitution is repealed.
(Age limitation, exception.)
Sec. 2. Section 6 of said article fifth is amended to read as follows:
1
No judge shall be eligible to hold his office after he shall arrive at the age of seventy
years, except that a chief justice or judge of the supreme court, a judge of the superior
court, or a judge of the court of common pleas, who has attained the age of seventy
years and has become a state referee may exercise, as shall be prescribed by law, the
powers of the superior court or court of common pleas on matters referred to him as
a state referee.
1 Cited. 158 C. 16; Id., 291. Exception does not include circuit court judges. 164 C. 360. State trial referees are not
judges of the court whose powers they exercise, but are sui generis. Id. History of section and state referees. Id. State
referee sitting under the provisions of this section sits as a special tribunal. 167 C. 564. State referee system does not
encroach upon and does not unconstitutionally compete with other constitutional courts. 177 C. 173. Provisions of Sec.
52-434(a)(4) not in conflict. 199 C. 496. Cited. Id., 518; 200 C. 38. Sec. 51-198(c) authorizing retired judge to perform

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CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
limited, temporary duties associated with former office does not violate mandatory retirement provision because such
duties do not amount to “holding office”. 293 C. 641.
Cited. 7 CA 136; 21 CA 359.