Provisions
IV.1 proposed for 1928 • Executive power, how vested.
REJECTED
The Text
The executive power shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for four years; a lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the same time, and for the same term. The governor and lieutenant-governor elected next preceding the time when this section, hereby amended, shall take effect shall hold office until and including the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and their successors shall be chosen at the general election in that year.
A Few Facts
• Has 78 words
• Was proposed by the Legislature
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 6 of 1927
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1928
• Been in Article IV: Executive
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-IV.1
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