Pennsylvania Act 2015-62 — JUDICIAL CODE - AUTOMATIC RETIREMENT ON AGE

Act text

Session of 2015

No. 2015-62

HB 89

AN ACT

Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in discipline, removal and retirement of judicial officers, further providing for automatic retirement on age.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 3351 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 3351. Automatic retirement on age.

Judges and magisterial district judges shall be retired upon attaining the age of [70] 75 years.

Section 2. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall transmit to the Legislative Reference Bureau, for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, notice of adoption of an amendment to section 16(b) of Article V of the Constitution of Pennsylvania which provides for mandatory retirement at 75 years of age.

Section 3. This act shall take effect as follows:

(1) Section 2 of this act and this section shall take effect immediately.

(2) The amendment of 42 Pa.C.S. § 3351 shall take effect upon publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin of the notice under section 2 of this act.

APPROVED--The 24th day of November, A.D. 2015.

TOM WOLF