Ballot Questions
1894
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change the whole NYS constitution, except for certain provisions with separate ballot questions - as proposed by the 1894 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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55.64% |
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410,697 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
44.36% |
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327,402 New Yorkers voted No |
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738,099 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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Note: When voters approved of provisions, the new changes take effect on January 1st of the year after the question's appearance on the ballot
X.5 proposed for 1895
Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions • Section 5: Vacancies in office, how filled.
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.
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Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions • Section 6: Political year.
The political year and legislative term shall begin on the first day of January; and the Legislature shall, every year, assemble on the first Wednesday in January.
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Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions • Section 7: Removal from office.
Provision shall be made by law for the removal for misconduct or malversation in office of all officers, except judicial, whose powers and duties are not local or legislative, and who shall be elected at general elections, and also for supplying vacancies created by such removal.
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Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions • Section 8: When office deemed vacant.
The Legislature may declare the cases in which any office shall be deemed vacant when no provision is made for that purpose in this Constitution.
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Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions • Section 9: Compensation of certain officers.
No officer whose salary is fixed by the Constitution shall receive any additional compensation. Each of the other State officers named in the Constitution shall, during his continuance in office, receive a compensation, to be fixed by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed; nor shall he…
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Article XI: Militia • Section 1: Militia.
All able-bodied male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, who are residents of the State, shall constitute the militia, subject, however, to such exemptions as are now, or may be hereafter, created by the laws of the United States, or by the Legislature of this State.
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Article XI: Militia • Section 2: Provisions for enlistment.
The Legislature may provide for the enlistment into the active force of such other persons as may make application to be so enlisted.
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Article XI: Militia • Section 3: Organization and maintenance of militia.
The militia shall be organized and divided into such land and naval, and active and reserve forces as the Legislature may deem proper, provided, however, that there shall be maintained at all times a force of not less than ten thousand enlisted men, fully uniformed, armed, equipped, disciplined, and ready for active service. And it shall be the duty of…
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Article XI: Militia • Section 4: Officers to be appointed by the Governor.
The Governor shall appoint the chiefs of the several staff departments, his aides-de-camp and military secretary, all of whom shall hold office during his pleasure, their commissions to expire with the term for which the Governor shall have been elected; he shall also nominate, and with the consent of the senate appoint, all major generals.
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Article XI: Militia • Section 5: Commissioned and non-commissioned, how chosen.
All other commissioned and noncommissioned officers shall be chosen or appointed in such manner as the Legislature may deem most conducive to the improvement of the militia, provided, however, that no law shall be passed changing the existing mode of election and appointment unless two thirds of the members present in each house shall concur therein.
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Article XI: Militia • Section 6: Officers, how commissioned.
The commissioned officers shall be commissioned by the Governor as commander-in-chief. No commissioned officer shall be removed from office during the term for which he shall have been appointed or elected, unless by the senate on the recommendation of the Governor, stating the grounds on which such removal is recommended, or by the sentence of a court martial, or upon…
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Article XII: Cities and Villages • Section 1: Provision for organization of cities, incorporated villages, etc.
It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments, and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations.
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Article XII: Cities and Villages • Section 2: Classification of cities, etc.
All cities are classified according to the latest State enumeration, as from time to time made, as follows: The first class includes all cities having a population of two hundred and fifty thousand, or more; the second class, all cities having a population of fifty thousand and less than two hundred and fifty thousand; the third class, all other cities.…
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Article XII: Cities and Villages • Section 3: Elections, how held.
All elections of city officers, including supervisors and judicial officers of inferior local courts, elected in any city or part of a city, and of county officers elected in the counties of New York and Kings, and in all counties whose boundaries are the same as those of a city, except to fill vacancies, shall be held on the Tuesday…
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Article XIII: Official Oath; Bribery; Passes • Section 1: Oath of office.
Members of the Legislature, and all officers, executive and judicial, except such inferior officers as shall be by law exempted, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the…
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Article XIII: Official Oath; Bribery; Passes • Section 2: Bribery and corruption.
Any person holding office under the laws of this State who, except in payment of his legal salary, fees, or perquisites, shall receive or consent to receive, directly or indirectly, anything of value or of personal advantage, or the promise thereof, for performing or omitting to perform any official act, or with the express or implied understanding that his official…
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Article XIII: Official Oath; Bribery; Passes • Section 3: Offer of bribery a felony.
Any person who shall offer or promise a bribe to an officer, if it shall be received, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and liable to punishment, except as herein provided. No person offering a bribe shall, upon any prosecution of the officer for receiving such bribe, be privileged from testifying in relation thereto, and he shall not be…
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Article XIII: Official Oath; Bribery; Passes • Section 4: Witness.
Any person charged with receiving a bribe, or with offering or promising a bribe, shall be permitted to testify in his own behalf in any civil or criminal prosecution therefor.
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Article XIII: Official Oath; Bribery; Passes • Section 5: Free passes of transportation, a misdemeanor.
No public officer, or person elected or appointed to a public office, under the laws of this State, shall, directly or indirectly, ask, demand, accept, receive, or consent to receive for his own use or benefit, or for the use or benefit of another, any free pass, free transportation, franking privilege or discrimination in passenger, telegraph, or telephone rates, from…
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Article XIII: Official Oath; Bribery; Passes • Section 6: Removal of district attorney.
Any district attorney who shall fail faithfully to prosecute a person charged with the violation in his county of any provision of this article, which may come to his knowledge, shall be removed from office by the Governor, after due notice and an opportunity of being heard in his defense. The expenses which shall be incurred by any county in…
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