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Provisions

III.19 of 1939 • Private claims not to be audited by legislature; claims barred by lapse of time.

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The Text

The legislature shall neither audit nor allow any private claim or account against the state, but may appropriate money to pay such claims as shall have been audited and allowed according to law.
No claim against the state shall be audited, allowed or paid which, as between citizens of the state, would be barred by lapse of time. This provision shall not be construed to repeal any statute fixing the time within the time allowed by law, and prosecuted with due diligence from the time of such presentment. But if the claimant shall be under legal disability, the claim may be presented within two years after such disability is removed.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1939

• In Article III: Legislature

• Has 110 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amends or builds on:
1895-VII.6

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