State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > New-york > Jud > Article-6-a > 184§ 184. Number of judges of the surrogate's court, county judges to serve as judges of surrogate's court. 1. The number of judges of the surrogate's court for each county, whether without or within the city of New York, shall be equal to the number of separate elective offices or office of judge of the surrogate's court for such county authorized by law on the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred sixty-two, except those authorized by certificate filed pursuant to section one hundred eighty-nine-c of the judiciary law, as added by chapter six hundred ninety-four of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty, subsequent to March first, nineteen hundred sixty-two. 2. Except where a separate surrogate has been or shall be elected, the county judge of each county outside of the city of New York shall be and serve as judge of the surrogate's court for his county. 3. Every person elected or appointed to the office of surrogate or county judge, where there is no separate office of surrogate, shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, and if appointed, within fifteen days after notice thereof, execute and deliver to the county clerk of his county a joint and several undertaking, with two or more sureties being resident freeholders, to be approved by such clerk, to the effect that he will faithfully perform his duties as such surrogate, and apply and pay over all moneys and effects that may come into his hands as such surrogate in the execution of his office; which undertaking shall be immediately filed in the office of such county clerk. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the surrogates elected in the counties situated within the city of New York.
