New York Consolidated Laws, Uniform Justice Court Act - UJC § 105. Training and education of justices;  expenses thereof;  requirements;  restriction

(a) Training.  No town or village justice selected for a term of office commencing on or after September first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, except one who has been admitted to practice law in this state, shall assume the functions of his office unless he has filed with the clerk of his municipality a certificate of completion of a course of education and training prescribed by the administrative board.  The administrative board may issue a temporary certificate enabling a town or village justice to assume the functions of his office pending completion of the earliest such course available thereafter.  Such certificates shall be in a form, and subject to terms and conditions, prescribed by the administrative board.

(b) Expenses.  Notwithstanding any other law, actual and necessary expenses incurred by a justice or justice elect in carrying out the foregoing requirement shall be a charge against the municipality.

(c) No town or village justice selected for a term of office commencing on or after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-five, shall engage in or accept any employment as a “peace officer” or a “police officer”, as those terms are defined in the criminal procedure law.

(d) No town justice selected for a term of office commencing on or after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, shall serve as a member of a town board in a town of the second class.