Section 105. Training and education of justices; expenses thereof; requirements; restriction  


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  • (a) Training. No town or village justice selected for a term of office
      commencing on or after September first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,
      except  one  who  has been admitted to practice law in this state, shall
      assume the functions of his office unless he has filed with the clerk of
      his municipality a certificate of completion of a  course  of  education
      and  training prescribed by the administrative board. The administrative
      board may issue a temporary  certificate  enabling  a  town  or  village
      justice  to assume the functions of his office pending completion of the
      earliest such course available thereafter. Such certificates shall be in
      a  form,  and  subject  to  terms  and  conditions,  prescribed  by  the
      administrative board.
        (b)  Expenses.  Notwithstanding  any  other  law, actual and necessary
      expenses incurred by a justice or justice  elect  in  carrying  out  the
      foregoing requirement shall be a charge against the municipality.
        (c)  No  town  or  village  justice  selected  for  a  term  of office
      commencing on or after July first, nineteen hunded  seventy-five,  shall
      engage  in  or  accept  any employment as a "peace officer" or a "police
      officer", as those terms are defined in the criminal procedure law.
        (d) No town justice selected for a term of  office  commencing  on  or
      after  July  first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-seven,  shall serve as a
      member of a town board in a town of the second class.