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[84 STAT. 499]
PUBLIC LAW 91-000—MMMM. DD, 1970
[84 STAT. 499]

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PUBLIC LAW 91-358-JULY 29, 1970

ing promptly after filing and during the period they are kept by the Commission, and shall be kept by the Commission for not less than three years. "(3) The intentional failure by a judge of a District of Columbia court to file a report required by this section, or the filing of a fraudulent report, shall constitute willful misconduct in office and shall be grounds for removal from office under section 11-1526 (a)(2). "SUBCHAPTER III.—RETIREMENT "§ 11-1561. Definitions "For purposes of this subchapter— "(1) The term 'judge' means any judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals or the Superior Court or any person with judicial service as described in paragraph (2) of this section. "(2) The term 'judicial service' means service as a judge in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the Superior Court, or the former Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, District of Columbia Tax Court, police court, municipal court, Municipal Court of Appeals, or District of Columbia Court of General Sessions. "(3) The terms 'retire' and 'retirement' include retirement, resignation, or failure to be recommissioned or reappointed upon the expiration of a commission. "(4) The term 'fund' means the District of Columbia Judicial Retirement and Survivors Annuity Fund as provided in section 11-1570. "(5) The term 'widow' means a surviving wife of a judge who has either (A) been married to the judge for at least two years preceding his death or (B) is the mother of issue by the marriage and has not remarried. "(6) The term 'widower' means a surviving husband of a judge who has either (A) been married to the juage for at least two years preceding her death or (B) is the father of issue by the marriage and has not remarried. "(7) The term 'Commissioner' means the Commissioner of the District of Columbia. "(8) The term 'child' means— " (A) an unmarried child under eighteen years of age, including (i) an adopted child, and (ii) a stepchild or recognized natural child who lived with the judge in a regular parent-child relationship; " (B) such unmarried child regardless of age who is incapable of self-support because of mental or physical disability incurred before age eighteen; or " (C) such unmarried child between eighteen and twentytwo years of age who is a student regularly pursuing a fulltime course of study or training in residence in a high school, trade school, technical or vocational institute, junior college, college, university or comparable recognized educational institution. For the purpose of this paragraph, a child whose twenty-second birthday occurs before July 1 or after August 31 of a calendar year, and while he is regularly pursuing such a course of study or training, is deemed to have become twenty-two years of age on the first day of July after that birthday. A child who is a student is deemed not to have ceased to be a student during an interim between school years if the interim is not more than five months and if he shows

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