Ballot Questions
1915
Question #4
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 1915 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: No!
How We Voted
YES |
30.55% |
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400,423 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
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69.45% |
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910,462 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,310,885 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
VIII.26 proposed for 1916
Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 26: Local judicial officers.
Justices of the peace and other local judicial officers provided for in sections nineteen and twenty-two, in office when this article takes effect, shall hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms.
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 27: Courts of Special Sessions.
Courts of special sessions and inferior local courts of similar character shall have such jurisdiction of offenses of the grade of misdemeanors as may be prescribed by law.
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 28: Commissioners of jurors.
Commissioners of jurors now in office shall hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms. The legislature may provide for the appointment of a commissioner of jurors in any county; in a county in the first and second judicial districts, by the respective appellate divisions of the supreme court embracing those districts, and in a county in the…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 29: Legal process re real property.
Laws may be passed to provide for a system of judicial authentication, registration and guaranty by the state, or by any county thereof, of titles to real property, the determination of adverse claims to and interests therein, and the establishment by means of fees or otherwise of assurance funds to make such system operative. Such administrative powers as are necessary…
Read moreIX.1 proposed for 1916
Article IX: State debts • Section 1: State credit not to be loaned.
The credit of the state shall not in any manner be given or loaned to or in aid of any individual, association, or corporation.
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Article IX: State debts • Section 2: Power to contract debts.
The state may contract debts in anticipation of the receipt of taxes and revenues, direct or indirect, for the purposes and within the amounts of appropriations theretofore made; bonds or other obligations for the moneys so borrowed shall be issued as may be provided by law, and shall with the interest thereon be paid from such taxes and revenues within…
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Article IX: State debts • Section 3: Debts to repel invasion.
In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the state may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in war; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which it was raised, or to repay such debts, and to no other purpose whatever.
Read moreIX.4 proposed for 1916
Article IX: State debts • Section 4: Limitation of legislative power to create debts.
Except the debts specified in sections two and three of this article, no debt shall be hereafter contracted by or in behalf of this state, unless such debt shall be authorized by law, for some single work or object, to be distinctly specified therein. On the final passage of such bill in either house of the legislature, the question shall…
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Article IX: State debts • Section 5: Sinking funds.
The sinking funds provided for the payment of interest and the extinguishment of the principal of the debts of the state heretofore contracted shall be continued; they shall he separately kept and safely invested and neither of them shall be appropriated or used in any manner other than for such payment and extinguishment as hereinafter provided. The comptroller shall each…
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Article IX: State debts • Section 6: Payment of State debts.
The legislature shall annually provide by appropriation for the payment of the interest upon and instalments of principal of all debts created on behalf of the state except those contracted under section two of this article, as the same shall fall due, and for the contribution to all of the sinking funds heretofore created by law, of the amounts annually…
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Article IX: State debts • Section 7: Improvement of highways.
Debts hereafter authorized for the improvement of highways shall be created only in the manner provided in section four of this article. No provision of this article shall be deemed to impair or affect the validity of any debt of the state heretofore contracted or any right or obligation heretofore created between the state and any of its civil divisions.
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Article IX: State debts • Section 8: Highway funds
The moneys authorized to be raised by the sale of highway bonds pursuant to the law approved by vote of the people at the general election held in the year one thousand nine hundred and twelve, which have been apportioned to certain counties in excess of the sums, to be determined by the comptroller, which are or will be required…
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Article IX: State debts • Section 9: Claims.
Neither the legislature, canal board, nor any person or persons acting in behalf of the state, shall audit, allow, or pay any claim 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 which claims shall be presented or allowed, nor shall…
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Article IX: State debts • Section 10: Certain canals not to be leased or sold.
The legislature shall not sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the Erie canal, the Oswego canal, the Champlain canal, the Cayuga and Seneca canal, the Black River canal, or canal terminals heretofore or hereafter constructed, nor shall any easement in or incumbrance on such canals or terminals be created; but they shall remain the property of the state and under…
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Article IX: State debts • Section 11: Maintenance of canals.
No tolls shall hereafter be imposed on persons or property transported on the canals, but all boats navigating the canals and the owners and masters thereof, shall be subject to such laws and regulations as have been or may hereafter be enacted concerning the navigation of the canals. The legislature shall annually, by equitable taxes, make provision for the expenses…
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Article IX: State debts • Section 12: Improvements of canals.
The canals may be improved in such manner as the legislature shall provide by law. A debt may be authorized for that purpose in the mode prescribed by section four of this article, or the cost of such improvement may be defrayed by the appropriation of funds from the state treasury, or by equitable annual tax.
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 1: Corporations, how created.
Corporations may be formed under general laws; but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws. All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time or repealed.
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 2: Debts of corporations.
Dues from corporations shall be secured by such individual liability of the corporators and other means as may be prescribed by law.
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 3: "Corporations" defined.
The term corporations as used in this article shall be construed to include all associations and joint stock companies having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. And all corporation shall have the right to sue and shall be subject to be sued in all courts in like cases as natural persons.
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 4: Charters for savings banks and banking purposes.
The legislature shall, by general law, conform all charters of savings banks, or institutions for savings, to a uniformity of powers, rights and liabilities, and all charters hereafter granted for such corporations shall be made to conform to such general law, and to such amendments as may be made thereto. And no such corporation shall have any capital stock, nor…
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