Ballot Questions
1925
Question #3
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change V.1, V.2, V.3, V.4, V.5, V.6, VIII.11 - to reorganize state departments
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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57.47% |
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1,048,087 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
42.53% |
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775,768 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,823,855 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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Note: When voters approved of provisions, the new changes take effect on January 1st of the year after the question's appearance on the ballot
V.1 proposed for 1926
Article V: State Officers; Civil Service • Section 1: Comptroller and attorney general.
The comptroller and attorney general shall be chosen at a general election, at the times and places of electing the governor and lieutenant governor, and shall hold office for the same term as the governor and lieutenant-governor. The comptroller shall be required: (1) To audit all vouchers before payment and all offlcial accounts; (2) to audit the accrual and collection…
Read moreV.2 proposed for 1926
Article V: State Officers; Civil Service • Section 2: Civil departments of state government.
There shall be the following civil departments in the state government: First, executive; second, audit and control; third, taxation and finance; fourth, law; fifth, state; sixth, public works; seventh, architecture; eighth, conservation; ninth, agriculture and markets; tenth, labor: eleventh, education; twelfth, health; thirteenth, mental hygiene; fourteenth, charities; fifteenth, correction; sixteenth, public service; seventeenth, banking; eighteenth, insurance; nineteenth, civil service; twentieth,…
Read moreV.3 proposed for 1926
Article V: State Officers; Civil Service • Section 3: Legislature to provide for assignment of duties of civil departments.
At the session immediately following the adoption of this article the legislature shall provide by law for the appropriate assignment, to take effect not earlier than the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, of all the civil, administrative and executive functions of the state government, to the several departments in this article provided. Subject to the…
Read moreV.4 proposed for 1926
Article V: State Officers; Civil Service • Section 4: Comptroller and attorney general as department heads.
The head of the department of audit and control shall be the comptroller and of the department of law, the attorney-general. The head of the department of education shall be the regents of the university of the state of New York, who shall appoint and at pleasure remove a commissioner of education to be the chief administrative officer of the…
Read moreV.5 proposed for 1926
Article V: State Officers; Civil Service • Section 5: Certain offices abolished.
All offices for the weighing, gauging, measuring, culling, or inspecting any merchandise, produce, manufacture, or commodity whatever, are hereby abolished; and no such office shall hereafter be created by law; but nothing in this section contained shall abrogate any office created for the purpose of protecting the public health or the interests of the state in its property, revenue, tolls,…
Read moreV.6 proposed for 1926
Article V: State Officers; Civil Service • Section 6: Civil service.
Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the Army and Navy of…
Read moreVIII.11 proposed for 1926
Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 11: State Board of Charities.
The legislature shall provide for a state board of charities, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated, or not incorporated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional, or reformatory character, excepting state institutions for the education and support of the blind and the deaf and dumb, and excepting also such institutions as are hereby made…
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