N.Y. UDC Law § 2405
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Districts and number of judges therein
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§ 2405. Districts and number of judges therein. The county shall be\ndivided into judicial districts as follows: The county as a whole shall\nconstitute the first judicial district in which one district court judge\nshall be elected. The town of Hempstead shall be the second judicial\ndistrict, the town of North Hempstead the third judicial district and\nthe town of Oyster Bay the fourth judicial district. There shall be\nfourteen district court judges elected in the second district, five in\nthe third district and six in the fourth district. For the purpose of\nelecting such judges and for the purpose of determining the boundaries\nof such districts, any city heretofore or hereafter created from the\nterritory of any town shall be considered to be part of that town.\n The compensation of the judges of the district court authorized on the\neffective date of this act shall be the same as the existing judges of\nthe district court.\n
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