Provisions
VI.1 of 1926 • Supreme court; how constituted; judicial districts.
APPROVED
The Text
The supreme court is continued with general jurisdiction in law and equity, subject to such appellate jurisdiction of the court of appeals as now is or hereafter may be prescribed by law not inconsistent with this article. The existing judicial districts of the state are continued until changed as hereinafter provided. The supreme court shall consist of the justices now in office and their successors, together with such additional justices as may be authorized by law. The successors of said justices shall be chosen by the electors of their respective judicial districts. The legislature may alter the judicial districts once after every federal census or state enumeration, each district being bounded by county lines, and thereupon re-apportion the justices to be thereafter elected in the districts so altered.
The legislature may from time to time increase the number of justices in any judicial district except the number of justices in any district shall not be increased to exceed one justice for each sixty thousand, or fraction over thirty-five thousand, of the population thereof as shown by the last federal census or state enumeration. Any justice of the supreme court, except as otherwise provided in this article, may perform the duties of his office or hold court in any county.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1926
• In Article VI: Judiciary
• Has 208 words
• Was proposed by the Legislature
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1925
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1906-VI.1
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