Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 119.djvu/216

 119 STAT. 198

28 USC 152 note.

VerDate 14-DEC-2004

08:19 Oct 26, 2006

PUBLIC LAW 109–8—APR. 20, 2005

(C) DISTRICT OF DELAWARE.—The 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th vacancies in the office of bankruptcy judge in the district of Delaware— (i) occurring 5 years or more after the respective 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th appointment dates of the bankruptcy judges appointed under paragraph (1)(F); and (ii) resulting from the death, retirement, resignation, or removal of a bankruptcy judge; shall not be filled. (D) SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA.—The 1st and 2d vacancies in the office of bankruptcy judge in the southern district of Florida— (i) occurring 5 years or more after the respective 1st and 2d appointment dates of the bankruptcy judges appointed under paragraph (1)(D); and (ii) resulting from the death, retirement, resignation, or removal of a bankruptcy judge; shall not be filled. (E) DISTRICT OF MARYLAND.—The 1st, 2d, and 3d vacancies in the office of bankruptcy judge in the district of Maryland— (i) occurring 5 years or more after the respective 1st, 2d, and 3d appointment dates of the bankruptcy judges appointed under paragraph (1)(F); and (ii) resulting from the death, retirement, resignation, or removal of a bankruptcy judge; shall not be filled. (c) EXTENSIONS.— (1) IN GENERAL.—The temporary office of bankruptcy judges authorized for the northern district of Alabama, the district of Delaware, the district of Puerto Rico, and the eastern district of Tennessee under paragraphs (1), (3), (7), and (9) of section 3(a) of the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 1992 (28 U.S.C. 152 note) are extended until the first vacancy occurring in the office of a bankruptcy judge in the applicable district resulting from the death, retirement, resignation, or removal of a bankruptcy judge and occurring 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER PROVISIONS.—All other provisions of section 3 of the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 1992 (28 U.S.C. 152 note) remain applicable to the temporary office of bankruptcy judges referred to in this subsection. (d) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—Section 152(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking the first sentence and inserting the following: ‘‘Each bankruptcy judge to be appointed for a judicial district, as provided in paragraph (2), shall be appointed by the court of appeals of the United States for the circuit in which such district is located.’’; and (2) in paragraph (2)— (A) in the item relating to the middle district of Georgia, by striking ‘‘2’’ and inserting ‘‘3’’; and (B) in the collective item relating to the middle and southern districts of Georgia, by striking ‘‘Middle and Southern. . . . . . 1’’. (e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.

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