Ballot Questions
1938
Question #1
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 1938 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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53.88% |
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1,521,036 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
46.12% |
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1,301,797 New Yorkers voted No |
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2,822,833 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
IX.14 proposed for 1939
Article IX: Local Governments • Section 14: Annexation of territory of cities.
No territory shall be annexed to any city until the people of the territory proposed to be annexed shall have consented to such annexation by majority vote on a referendum called for that purpose.
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Article IX: Local Governments • Section 15: Election of city officers and certain county officers to be held in odd-numbered years.
All elections of city officers, including supervisors, elected in any city or part of a city, and of county officers elected in any county wholly included in a city, except to fill vacancies, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in an odd-numbered year, and the term of every such officer shall expire at the…
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Article IX: Local Governments • Section 16: Villages of five thousand or more; home rule for; duty of and restrictions on legislature respecting.
The legislature, on or before July first, nineteen hundred forty shall confer by general law upon all villages having a population of five thousand or more as determined by the federal census power to adopt and amend local laws not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the state relating to the property, affairs or government of such villages but…
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Article X: Corporations • Section 1: Corporations; formation of.
Corporations may be formed under general law; 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 X: Corporations • Section 2: Dues 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 X: Corporations • Section 3: Savings bank charters; restrictions on trustees; special charters not to be granted.
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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Article X: Corporations • Section 4: Corporations; definition; right to sue and be sued.
The term corporations as used in this section, and in sections 1, 2 and 3 of 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 corporations shall have the right to sue and shall be subject to be sued in…
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Article X: Corporations • Section 5: Public corporations; restrictions on creation and powers; accounts; obligations of.
No public corporation (other than a county, city, town, village, school district or fire district or an improvement district established in a town or towns) possessing both the power to contract indebtedness and the power to collect rentals, charges, rates or fees for the services or facilities furnished or supplied by it shall hereafter be created except by special act…
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Article XI: Education • Section 1: Common 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 XI: Education • Section 2: Regents of the University.
The corporation created in the year one thousand seven hundred 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, shall…
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Article XI: Education • Section 3: Common school, literature and the 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 and the revenue of the said funds shall be applied to the support of common schools and libraries.
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Article XI: Education • Section 4: Use of public property or money in aid of denominational schools prohibited; transportation of children authorized.
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 XII: Military • Section 1: State militia.
All able-bodied male citizens of the United States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, who are residents of the state, and all other able-bodied male residents thereof between such ages, who have or shall have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, shall constitute the militia, subject however to such exceptions and exemptions as are now,…
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Article XII: Military • Section 2: Enlistment.
The legislature may provide for the enlistment into the active force of such other persons as may make application to be so enlisted.
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Article XII: Military • Section 3: Organization of militia.
The militia shall be organized and divided into such land, air and naval, and active and reserve forces, as the legislature may deem proper, provided however that there shall be maintained at all times a force of not less than ten thousand enlisted men, fully uniformed, armed, equipped, disciplined and ready for active service. And it shall be the duty…
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Article XII: Military • Section 4: Governor to appoint adjutant-general and major-generals.
The governor shall appoint the adjutant-general; he shall also nominate, and with the consent of the senate appoint, all major-generals.
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Article XII: Military • Section 5: Appointment of other officers.
All other commissioned and non-commissioned officers shall be appointed as provided by law.
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Article XII: Military • Section 6: Commissioned officers; removal.
The commissioned officers shall be commissioned by the governor as commander-in-chief. No commissioned officer shall be removed from office during the term for which he shall have been appointed, unless by the senate on the recommendation of the governor, stating the grounds on which such removal is recommended, or by the sentence of a court-martial, or upon the findings of…
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Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 1: Oath of office; no other test for public office.
Members of the legislature, and all officers, executive and judicial, except such inferior officers as shall be by law exempted, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the…
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Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 2: Bribery by public officials.
Any person holding office under the laws of this state, who, except in payment of his legal salary, fees or perquisites, shall receive or consent to receive, directly or indirectly, anything of value or of personal advantage, or the promise thereof, for performing or omitting to perform any official act, or with the expressed or implied understanding that his official…
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