Provisions
XIII.8 of 1939 • Vacancies in office; how filled.
APPROVED
The Text
The legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in office, and in case of elective officers, no person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold his office by virtue of such appointment longer than the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first annual election after the happening of the vacancy.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article XIII: Public Officers
• Has 51 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-X.5
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