Current Status Bill Number:767 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19970520 Primary Sponsor:O'Dell All Sponsors:O'Dell Drafted Document Number:jud4003.who Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 11 SJ Subject:Magistrates, must retire not later than end of term in which becomes seventy-two; Courts
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Senate 19970520 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ
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TO AMEND SECTION 22-1-25, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR MAGISTRATES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A MAGISTRATE MUST RETIRE NOT LATER THAN THE END OF HIS TERM IN WHICH HE BECOMES AGE SEVENTY-TWO, RATHER THAN AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR WHEN HE REACHES THAT AGE, AND TO DELETE OBSOLETE REFERENCES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 22-1-25 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 22-1-25. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9-1-1530 or Section 1-13-80(h)(8), (10) or (12), it shall be mandatory for a magistrate to retire not later than the end of the fiscal year his term in which he reaches his seventy-second birthday. Any magistrate serving in office on the effective date of this section who has attained the age of seventy-two years prior to July 1, 1993, may continue to serve until June 30, 1994."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.