Ballot Questions
1955
Question #6
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change VIII.2-a
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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59.15% |
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1,163,800 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
40.85% |
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803,884 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,967,684 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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VIII.2-a proposed for 1956
Article VIII: Local Finances • Section 2-a: Local indebtedness for water supply, sewage and drainage facilities and purposes; allocations and exclusions of indebtedness
Notwithstanding the provisions of section one of this article, the legislature by general or special law and subject to such conditions as it shall impose: A. May authorize any county, city, town or village or any county or town on behalf of an improvement district to contract indebtedness to provide a supply of water, in excess of its own needs,…
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