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Amendment Article VIII, Section 2

CONSTITUTION ARTICLE V, Section 6

Age limitation of judges. Exception.

SJR 22                        1973

            Senate:            3640, 4350-4355, 4362-4363

            House:            7327-7336, 7830-7833

            Committee: Government Administration & Policy: None

                                                Total Pages: 23  pages

 

Adopted: November 27, 1974 by a popular vote of  301,707 in favor and 236,692 against.

 

[Article fifth, Sec. 6 formerly read: No judge or justice of the peace shall be eligible to hold his office after he shall arrive at the age of seventy years.  The phrase ‘justice of the peace’ was removed by this amendment]