Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, | 6 |
three-fifths of the members elected to each house concurring | 7 |
herein, that there shall be submitted to the electors of the | 8 |
state, in the manner prescribed by law at the general election to | 9 |
be held on November 2, 2010, a proposal to amend Section 6 of | 10 |
Article IV of the Constitution of Ohio to read as follows: | 11 |
(3) The judges of the courts of common pleas and the | 18 |
divisions thereof shall be elected by the electors of the | 19 |
counties, districts, or, as may be provided by law, other | 20 |
subdivisions, in which their respective courts are located, for | 21 |
terms of not less than six years, and each judge of a court of | 22 |
common pleas or division thereof shall reside during his term of | 23 |
office in the county, district, or subdivision in which his court | 24 |
is located. | 25 |
(B) The judges of the supreme court, courts of appeals, | 29 |
courts of common pleas, and divisions thereof, and of all courts | 30 |
of record established by law, shall, at stated times, receive, for | 31 |
their services such compensation as may be provided by law, which | 32 |
shall not be diminished during their term of office. The | 33 |
compensation of all judges of the supreme court, except that of | 34 |
the chief justice, shall be the same. The compensation of all | 35 |
judges of the courts of appeals shall be the same. Common pleas | 36 |
judges and judges of divisions thereof, and judges of all courts | 37 |
of record established by law shall receive such compensation as | 38 |
may be provided by law. Judges shall receive no fees or | 39 |
perquisites, nor hold any other office of profit or trust, under | 40 |
the authority of this state, or of the United States. All votes | 41 |
for any judge, for any elective office, except a judicial office, | 42 |
under the authority of this state, given by the general assembly, | 43 |
or the people shall be void. | 44 |
(C) No person shall be elected or appointed to any judicial | 45 |
office if on or before the day when he shall assume the office and | 46 |
enter upon the discharge of its duties he shall have attained the | 47 |
age of seventy years. Any voluntarily retired judge, or any judge | 48 |
who iswas retired under this section as it existed before January | 49 |
1, 2011, may be assigned with histhe retired judge's consent, by | 50 |
the chief justice or acting chief justice of the supreme court, to | 51 |
active duty as a judge and while so serving shall receive the | 52 |
established compensation for such office, computed upon a per diem | 53 |
basis, in addition to any retirement benefits to which hethe | 54 |
retired judge may be entitled. Laws may be passed providing | 55 |
retirement benefits for judges. | 56 |
The amendments to Section 6 of Article IV of the Constitution | 63 |
of Ohio in part substitute gender neutral for gender specific | 64 |
language. The gender neutralizing amendments are not intended to | 65 |
make a substantive change in the Ohio Constitution. The gender | 66 |
neutral language is to be construed as a restatement of, and | 67 |
substituted in a continuing way for, the corresponding gender | 68 |
specific language existing prior to adoption of the gender | 69 |
neutralizing amendments. | 70 |