Section 32. Kings county court

Kings county court

There shall be in the county of Kings two county judges, each of whose term of office shall be six years. The county judge in office at the adoption of this amendment shall hold office until the expiration of the term for which he was elected. The additional county judge shall be elected at the general election held next after the adoption of this amendment, and his term of office shall begin on the first day of January thereafter. When the official term of any county judge of said county will expire by the effluxion of time or the disability of age, the successor of such judge shall be chosen at the proceeding general election. Vacancies otherwise occuring in said offices shall be filed in the same manner as vacancies in the supreme court. The salary of said county judge shall be as now established by law for county judge in said county. Their power and jurisdiction shall be co-ordinate and co-equal. One or more parts of the county court may be held in said county. The court of sessions in the county of Kings is continued with the powers and jurisdiction it now possesses, amd with such additional powers and jurisdiction as may be conferred by the legislature; it must be held by a county judge of the county and may hold one or more parts.