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.6 proposed for 1916
Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 6: Legislature to pass civil practice act and rules.
To secure a more simple, speedy and effective administration of justice, it shall be the duty of the legislature to act with all convenient speed upon the report of the board of statutory consolidation transmitted to the legislature by the governor on the twenty-first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and to enact a brief and simple…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 7: Court of Claims.
The court of claims is continued and shall be a court of record. It shall consist of the three judges now in office, who shall hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms, and their successors who shall be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate and who shall hold office…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 8: Supreme court commissioners.
Supreme court commissioners may be appointed as hereinafter provided, one or more of whom may be designated by the court to determine the compensation to be paid whenever private property is taken for a public use in the judicial department or district for which they shall have been appointed, when such compensation is not made by the state, and who…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 9: Court of Appeals.
The court of appeals is continued. It shall consist of the chief judge and associate judges now in office, who shall hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms, and their successors, who shall be chosen by the electors of the state, and of the three justices of the supreme court now serving as associate judges of the…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 10: Vacancies, how filled.
When a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration of term, in the office of chief or associate judge of the court of appeals, the same shall be filled, for a full term, at the next general election happening not less than three months after such vacancy occurs; and until the vacancy shall be so filled, the governor, by and…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 11: Jurisdiction of Court of Appeals.
After the last day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, the jurisdiction of the court of appeals, except where the judgment is of death, or where the appellate division on reversing or modifying a judgment makes new findings of fact and renders judgment thereon, shall be limited to the review of questions of law. Appeals may be taken…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 12: Judges of Court of Appeals, or justices of Supreme Court, to hold no other office.
The judges of the court of appeals and the justices of the supreme court shall not hold any other office or public trust. All votes for any of them, for any other than a judicial office, given by the legislature or the people, shall be void.
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 13: Removals — Proceedings in relation thereto.
Judges of the court of appeals and justices of the supreme court may be removed by concurrent resolution of both houses of the legislature, if two-thirds of all the members elected to each house concur therein. All other judicial officers, except justices of the peace and judges or justices of inferior courts not of record, may be removed by the…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 14: Compensation; age restriction; assignment by Governor.
No person shall hold the office of judge, justice of any court or surrogate longer than until and including the last day of December next after he shall be seventy years of age. Each justice of the supreme court shall receive from the state an annual salary of ten thousand dollars. Those assigned to the appellate divisions in the third…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 15: Impeachment.
The assembly shall have the power of impeachment by a vote of a majority of all the members elected. The court for the trial of impeachments shall be composed of the president of the senate, the senators, or the major part of them, and the judges of the court of appeals, or the major part of them. On the trial…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 16: County Courts.
The existing county courts are continued, and the judges thereof now in office shall hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms except that the county courts in the counties of Kings, Queens, Richmond and Bronx shall be abolished and the county judges transferred as provided in this article. The number of county judges in any county may…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 17: Surrogates' Courts.
The existing surrogates’ courts are continued, and the surrogates now in office shall hold their offices until the expiration of their terms. Their successors shall be chosen by the electors of their respective counties, and their terms of office shall be six years, except in the county of New York, where they shall continue to be fourteen years. Surrogates and…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 18: Local judicial officers.
The legislature may, on application of the board of supervisors, provide for the election of local officers, not to exceed two in any county, to discharge the duties of county judge and of surrogate, in cases of their inability or of a vacancy, and in such other cases as may be provided by law, and to exercise such other powers…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 19: Justices of the peace.
The electors of the several towns shall, at their annual town meetings, or at such other time and in such manner as the legislature may direct, elect justices of the peace, whose term of office shall be four years. In case of an election to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of a full term, they shall hold for…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 20: Court of general sessions of New York City continued.
The court of general sessions in and for the city and county of New York is continued, and from and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, it shall have the same jurisdiction and powers throughout the city of New York, under the name of the court of general sessions of the city of New…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 21: City court of New York City is continued.
The city court of the city of New York is continued, and from and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, it shall have the same jurisdiction and power throughout the city of New York, under the name of the city court of New York, as it now possesses within the county of New York…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 22: Inferior local courts.
Inferior local courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction may be established by the legislature, but no inferior local court created after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, shall be a court of record. Except as herein provided the legislature shall not hereafter confer upon any inferior local court of its creation any equity jurisdiction or…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 23: Clerks of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Clerks of the several counties shall be clerks of the supreme court, with such powers and duties as shall be prescribed by law. The justices of the appellate division in each department shall have power to appoint and to remove a clerk who shall keep his office at a place to be designated by such justices. The clerk of the…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 24: No judicial officer except justice of the peace to receive fees.
No judicial officer, except justices of the peace, shall receive to his own use any fees or perquisites of office; nor shall any judge of the court of appeals, or justice of the supreme court, or any county judge or surrogate hereafter elected in a county having a population exceeding one hundred and twenty thousand, practice as an attorney or…
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Article VIII: Judiciary • Section 25: Publication of statutes to be provided for.
The legislature shall provide for the speedy publication of all statutes, civil practice rules and rules of court, and the collection, compilation and publication annually of the civil and criminal judicial statistics of the state, and shall regulate the reporting of the decisions of the courts; but all laws and judicial decisions shall be free for publication by any person.
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