Provisions
XV.2 proposed for 1916 • Organization of cities and villages.
REJECTED
The Text
The legislature may regulate and fix the wages and, except as otherwise provided in this article, the slaraies and may also regulate and fix the hours of work or labor, and make provision for the protection, welfare and safety of persons employed by the state or by any county, city, town, village or other civil division of the state, or by any contractor or subcontractor performing work, labor or services for the state, or for any county, city, town, village or other civil division thereof.
A Few Facts
• Has 85 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 XV: Cities and Villages
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1906-XII.1
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