The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics responds to written inquiries from New York state’s approximately 3,600 judges and justices, as well as hundreds of judicial hearing officers, support magistrates, court attorney-referees, and judicial candidates (both judges and non-judges seeking election to judicial office). The committee interprets the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct (22 NYCRR Part 100) and, to the extent applicable, the Code of Judicial Conduct. The committee consists of 27 current and retired judges, and is co-chaired by the Honorable Margaret Walsh, a justice of the supreme court in Albany County, and the Honorable Lillian Wan, an associate justice of the appellate division, second department. 

Digest: (1) Judges may attend a conference co-sponsored by a non-political, not-for-profit charitable and educational organization as well as by the New York State Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force.  (2) As the conference is a fund-raiser, a judicial association may not be the guest of honor but may accept an unadvertised award ancillary to the event.  Accordingly, the fact that the judicial association will be honored must not be advertised in advance by the event sponsors; it may be revealed in a program or agenda circulated during the event but must not be mentioned in advance on the invitations or announcements.  The judicial association may nonetheless notify its own members that the association will be honored at the conference should they wish to attend.  The judicial association must not invite or solicit attendance at the conference beyond its own members.

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