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
III.19 proposed for 1916
Article III: Legislature • Section 19: Cases in which private and local bills shall not be passed ; restrictions as to laws authorizing street railroads.
The legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of the following cases: Changing the names of persons; Laying out, opening, altering, working or discontinuing roads, highways or alleys, or for draining swamps or other low lands; Locating or changing county seats; Providing for changes of venue in civil or criminal cases; Incorporating villages; Providing for election…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 20: The Legislature not to audit or allow any private claim.
The legislature shall neither audit nor allow any private claim or account against the state or against any civil division thereof, but may appropriate money to pay such claims and accounts against the state as shall have been audited and allowed according to law.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 21: Two-thirds bills.
The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property for local or private purposes. No public moneys or property shall be appropriated for the construction or improvement of any building, bridge, highway, dike, canal, feeder, waterway or other work until plans and estimates…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 22: Use of public moneys.
No money shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this state or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made not later than three months after the close of the fiscal year next succeeding that in which such appropriation was…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 23: Appropriation bills not to embrace other subjects.
No provision or enactment shall be embraced in the annual appropriation or supply bill, unless it relates specifically to some particular appropriation in the bill; and any such provision or enactment shall be limited in its operation to such appropriation.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 24: Bill imposing tax, manner of passing.
Every law which imposes, continues, or revives a tax shall distinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 25: Boards of supervisors.
There shall be in each county, except in a county wholly included in a city, a board of supervisors, to be composed of such members and elected in such manner and for such period as is or may be provided by law. In a city which includes an entire county, or two or more entire counties, the powers and duties…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 26: Local legislative powers.
The legislature shall, by general laws, confer upon the boards of supervisors, or other governing bodies, of the several counties of the state such further powers of local legislation and administration as the legislature may, from time to time, deem expedient. In counties which now have, or may hereafter have, county auditors or other fiscal officers, authorized to audit bills,…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 27: No extra compensation to be granted.
No extra compensation shall be granted or allowed to any public officer, servant, agent or contractor, by the state or any civil division thereof or by any board, officer or other agency of the state, or of any such civil division.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 28: Occupation and employment of convicts.
The legislature shall, by law, provide for the occupation and employment of prisoners sentenced to the several state prisons, penitentiaries, jails and reformatories in the state; and on and after the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory shall be required or allowed to…
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Article III: Legislature
The legislature shall have the power to regulate or prohibit manufacturing in tenement houses.
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Article IV: Executive • Section 1: Executive power, how vested.
The executive power shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for two years. A lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the same time and for the same term. The governor shall receive for his services an annual salary of ten thousand dollars until the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, after which he…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 2: Requisite qualifications of Governor.
No person shall be eligible to the office of governor or lieutenant-governor, except a citizen of the United States, of the age of not less than thirty years, and who shall have been five years next preceding his election a resident of this state.
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Article IV: Executive • Section 3: Time and manner of electing Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.
The governor and lieutenant-governor shall be elected at the times and places of choosing members of the assembly. The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for governor and lieutenant-governor shall be elected; but in case two or more shall have an equal and the highest number of votes for governor, or for lieutenant-governor, the two houses of the…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 4: Duties and powers of Governor — His compensation.
The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military and naval forces of the state. He shall have power to convene the legislature, or the senate only, on extraordinary occasions. At extraordinary sessions no subject shall be acted upon, except such as the governor may recommend for consideration. He shall communicate by message to the legislature at every session the condition…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 5: Pardoning power vested in the Governor.
The governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations, as he may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons. Upon conviction for treason, he…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 6: Powers of Governor to devolve on Lieutenant-Governor.
If the office of governor be vacant the lieutenant-governor shall become governor for the remainder of the term. If the governor be under impeachment or be unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office or be absent from the state the lieutenant-governor shall act as governor during such inability, absence or the pendency of such impeachment. But when…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 7: Requisite qualifications of Governor.
The lieutenant-governor shall possess the same qualifications of eligibility for office as the governor. He shall be president of the senate, but shall have only a casting vote therein. If the office of governor be vacant and there be no lieutenant-governor, such vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the term at the next general election happening not less…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 8: Compensation of Lieutenant-Governor.
The lieutenant-governor shall receive for his services an annual salary of five thousand dollars, and shall not receive or be entitled to any other compensation, fee or perquisite, for any duty or service he may be required to perform by the constitution or by law.
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Article IV: Executive • Section 9: Bills to be presented to the Governor for signature — If returened by him with objections, how disposed of — Bills to be returned within ten days — After adjournment, bills must be approved in thirty days, else cannot become law — Governor may object to items of appropriation in any bill.
Every bill which shall have passed the senate and assembly shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it shall have originated, which shall enter the objections at large on the journal, and proceed to…
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