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
XI.5 proposed for 1916
Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 5: Specie payments.
The legislature shall have no power to pass any law sanctioning in any manner, directly or indirectly, the suspension of specie payments, by any person, association or corporation, issuing bank notes of any description.
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 6: Registry of bills or notes.
The legislature shall provide by law for the registry of all bills or notes, issued or put in circulation as money, and shall require ample security for the redemption of the same in specie.
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 7: Individual responsibility of stockholders.
The stockholders of every corporation and joint stock association for banking purposes shall be individually responsible to the amount of their respective share or shares of stock in any such corporation or association, for all its debts and liabilities of every kind.
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 8: Insolvency of banks, preference.
In case of the insolvency of any bank or banking association, the billholders thereof shall be entitled to preference in payment, over all other creditors of such bank or association.
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 9: Credit or money of the State not to be given or loaned.
Neither the credit nor the money of the state shall be given or loaned to or in aid of any association, corporation or private undertaking. This section shall not, however, prevent the legislature from making such provision for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb, and juvenile delinquents, as to it may seem proper. Nor shall…
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 10: Limitation of indebtedness of counties, cities, towns and villages; exception as to city of New York.
No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any…
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 11: Local indebtedness.
No county or city shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assessment rolls of such county or city on the last…
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 12: Local contracting of debt.
The legislature shall provide for the method and limitations under which debts may be contracted by the cities, counties, towns, villages and other civil divisions of the state to the end that such debts shall be payable in annual instalments the last of which shall fall due and be paid within fifty years after such debt shall have been contracted…
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 13: State Board of Charities.
The legislature shall provide for a state board of charities, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, whether state county, municipal, incorporated or not incorporated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory character, excepting only such institutions as are hereby made subject to the visitation and inspection of either of the commissions, hereinafter mentioned, but including all reformatories…
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 14: Same subject.
The members of such board and of such commissions shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; and any member may be removed from office by the governor for cause, an opportunity having been given him to be heard in his defense.
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 15: Inspection of institutions.
Existing laws relating to institutions referred to in the foregoing sections and to their supervision and inspection, in so far as such laws are not inconsistent with the provisions of this constitution, shall remain in force until amended or repealed by the legislature. The visitation and inspection herein provided for, shall not be exclusive of other visitation and inspection now…
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 16: Maintenance of charitable institutions.
Nothing in this constitution contained shall prevent the legislature from making such provision for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb, and juvenile delinquents, as to it may seem proper; or prevent any county, city, town or village from providing for the care, support, maintenance and secular education, of inmates of orphan asylums, homes for dependent…
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Article XI: Corporations; municipal debts; boards and commissions • Section 17: Commissioners, terms of office, etc.
Commissioners of the state board of charities and commissioners of the state commission in lunacy, now holding office, shall be continued in office for the term for which they were appointed, respectively, unless the legislature shall otherwise provide. The legislature may confer upon the commissions and upon the board mentioned in the foregoing sections any additional powers that are not…
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Article XII: Education • Section 1: Provision for maintenance of free schools.
The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.
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Article XII: Education • Section 2: University of the State of New York.
The corporation created in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, under the name of The Regents of the University of the State of New York, is hereby continued under the name of The University of the State of New York. It shall be governed and its corporate powers, which may be increased, modified or diminished by the legislature,…
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Article XII: Education • Section 3: Common school, literature and United States deposit funds.
The capital of the common-school fund, the capital of the literature fund, and the capital of the United States deposit fund, shall be respectively preserved inviolate. The revenue of such common school fund shall be applied to the support of common schools; the revenue of such literature fund shall be applied to the support of academies; and the sum of…
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Article XII: Education • Section 4: Property, credit or public money, not to be used.
Neither the state nor any subdivision thereof, shall use its property or credit or any public money, or authorize or permit either to be used, directly or indirectly, in aid or maintenance, other than for examination or inspection, of any school or institution of learning wholly or in part under the control or direction of any religious denomination, or in…
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Article XIII: Officers generally • Section 1: Sheriffs, clerks of counties, register and clerk of New York, coroners and district attorneys — Governor may remove.
Sheriffs, clerks of counties, district attorneys, and registers in counties having registers, shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties, once in every three years and as often as vacancies shall happen, except in the counties of New York and Kings, and in counties whose boundaries are the same as those of a city, where such officers shall…
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Article XIII: Officers generally • Section 2: Officers, how chosen or appointed.
All county officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this constitution shall be elected by the electors of the respective counties or appointed by the boards of supervisors, or other county authorities, as the legislature shall direct. All city, town and village officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this constitution, shall be elected…
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Article XIII: Officers generally • Section 3: Duration of office.
When the duration of any office is not provided by this constitution, it may be declared by law, and if not so declared, such office shall be held during the pleasure of the authority making the appointment.
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