Provisions
III.16 of 1939 • Existing law not to be made applicable by reference.
APPROVED
The Text
No act shall be passed which shall provide that any existing law, or any part thereof, shall be made or deemed a part of said act, or which shall enact that any existing law, or part thereof, shall be applicable, except by inserting it in such act.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article III: Legislature
• Has 47 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1895-III.17
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