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Legislative Law, Article 4-A.
Law Revision Commission §70.
Commission created; terms and qualifications of members.
A law revision commission is hereby
created, to consist of the chairman of the committees on the
judiciary and codes of the senate and assembly, ex-officio, and five
additional members, to be appointed by the governor.
The
members first appointed by the governor shall be appointed for such
terms that the term of one member will expire on each succeeding
thirty-first day of December. The term of a member thereafter
appointed, except to fill a vacancy occurring otherwise than by
expiration of term, shall be five years from the expiration of the
term of his predecessor. A vacancy in the office of a member
appointed by the governor occurring otherwise than by expiration of
term, shall be filled by the governor for the remainder only of the
term. Upon making the original appointments, the governor shall
designate one of the appointed members as chairman of the
commission.
Upon
the
appointment
of
a successor to the chairman of
the commission, the governor shall designate such
successor or other member of the commission as chairman. Four
members appointed by the governor shall be attorneys and counselors
at law, admitted to practice in the courts of this state, and at
least two of them shall be members of law faculties of universities
or law schools within the state recognized by the board of regents
of the state of New York.
§71. Expenses;
employees.
Each of the members of the commission
appointed by the governor shall receive necessary expenses incurred
in the performance of official duty.
The commission may appoint such
employees as may be needed, prescribe their duties, and fix their
compensation within the amount appropriated for the commission. §72.
Purposes of commission.
It shall
be the duty of the law revision commission:
1.
To
examine the common law and statutes of the state and current
judicial decisions for the purpose of discovering defects
and anachronisms in the law and recommending needed reforms.
2.
To receive and consider proposed
changes in the law recommended by the American law institute, the
commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the
United States, any bar association or other learned bodies.
3. To receive and consider
suggestions from judges,
justices, public officials,
lawyers
and the public generally as to defects and anachronisms in the law.
4. To recommend, from time to
time, such changes in the law as it deems necessary to modify or
eliminate antiquated and inequitable rules of law, and to bring the
law of this state, civil and criminal, into harmony with modern
conditions.
5.
To report its proceedings
annually to the legislature on or before February first, and, if it
deems advisable, to accompany its report with proposed bills to
carry out any of its recommendations.
Law Revision Commission of the State of New York. Its
Organization, Procedure Program and Accomplishment,
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