Ballot Questions
1935
Question #3
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change VIII.7 - to repeal personal liability for banks' stockholders
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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66.87% |
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1,086,701 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
33.13% |
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538,442 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,625,143 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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VIII.7 proposed for 1936
Article VIII: Corporations and Charities • Section 7: Repeal of: Individual responsibility of stockholders.
[Repeal – removing the following words so that there is NO section 7: “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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