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least 7 years, or after attaining the age of 65 years and after | | having served as a judge on those courts for at least 12 years, or | | after attaining the age of 60 years and after having served as a | judge on those courts for at least 20 years, shall | receive annually during the remainder of his | whether or not he | | Justice, a retirement benefit equal to 3/4 of the currently | | effective annual salary to be paid in the same manner as the | salaries of the judges of that court from which he | | retired were paid prior to December 1, 1984. The right of any judge | drawing a retirement benefit to continue to receive it shall cease | ceases immediately if he | | in any action or legal proceeding in which the State is an adverse | | party or has any interest adverse to the person or persons in whose | behalf he |
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| | | Sec. 4. 5 MRSA §18055, sub-§1, ¶C, as corrected by RR 1999, c. 2, §4 | | and affected by §5, is amended to read: |
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| | | C. Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court and the Superior | | Court and Judges of the District Court and the | | Administrative Court; and |
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| | | Sec. 5. 5 MRSA §18061, sub-§2, ¶B, as amended by PL 1993, c. 386, §4 | | and PL 1999 c. 547, Pt. B, §78 and affected by §80, is further | | amended to read: |
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| | | B. The reduction set out in paragraph A, subparagraph (1) | | does not apply to any Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court | | or Superior Court, to any Judge of the District Court or | District | | judge who was insured and who was living on September 14, | | 1979. |
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| | | (1) The initial amount of basic life insurance that | | continued into retirement for any justice or judge must | | be continued in force at no cost to the justice or | | judge until the justice or judge reaches 70 years of | | age. |
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| | | (2) When a justice or judge reaches 70 years of age, the | | amount of insurance in force must be reduced to 25% of | | the initial amount of basic life insurance that | | continued into retirement. This reduction becomes | | effective at 12:01 a.m. of the day following the date | | on which the justice or judge reaches 70 years of age. |
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| | | Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, | | this Act takes effect March 15, 2001. |
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| | | This bill corrects inadvertant revisions to judicial | | retirement laws caused by the merging of the Administrative Court | | with the District Court. This bill ensures that the judicial | | retirement laws continue to cover retired Administrative Court | | judges. |
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