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 retired justice of the supreme court in Albany County, and the Honorable Lillian Wan, an associate justice of the appellate division, second department.

Digest:  (1) A judge must not personally participate in soliciting funds for a not-for-profit civic or charitable organization and therefore must not:  (a) send out solicitation letters for the organization; (b) post announcements about the organization's fund-raising activities or initiatives on social media; (c) post a link to a page that solicits donations; (d) sell raffle tickets; (e) stand at the door of a fund-raising event and collect tickets; (f) solicit, collect, or accept money for a "bounce house" rental, but may participate in setting up and taking down the bounce house; (g) solicit, collect, or accept money for a fund-raising dinner, but may cook and serve food, set up and clean at the dinner; (h) solicit bottles and cans to be converted to cash at a redemption center, or collect cash for them at the center, but may pick up bottles and cans that were previously solicited and collected by others and help sort them and bring them to the redemption center.