Section 121. Number of judges

The family court within the city of New York
  shall consist of forty-four judges  and,  as  of  July  first,  nineteen
  hundred  ninety,  shall  consist  of  forty-five judges and, as of April
  first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, shall consist of forty-seven judges.
  At least one of the persons appointed to the  office  of  judge  of  the
  family  court created by this section, shall be a resident of the county
  of Richmond and hereafter there shall be at least one family court judge
  resident in each  county  of  the  city  of  New  York.  The  amount  of
  compensation  for  such  new  family  court judges shall be equal to the
  compensation payable to existing family court judges in the city of  New
  York.