Provisions
VIII.18 proposed for 1916 • Local judicial officers.
REJECTED
The Text
The legislature may, on application of the board of supervisors, provide for the election of local officers, not to exceed two in any county, to discharge the duties of county judge and of surrogate, in cases of their inability or of a vacancy, and in such other cases as may be provided by law, and to exercise such other powers in special cases as are or may be provided by law.
A Few Facts
• Has 71 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article VIII: Judiciary
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-VI.16
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