Ballot Questions
1962
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change XIII.2, XIII.3, XIII.4, XIII.5, XIII.6, XIII.7, XIII.8, XIII.9, XIII.10, XIII.11, XIII.12
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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65.86% |
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1,619,745 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
34.14% |
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839,588 New Yorkers voted No |
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2,459,333 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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XIII.2 proposed for 1963
Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 2: Duration of term 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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Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 3: Vacancies in office; how filled.
The legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in office, and in case of elective officers, no person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold his office by virtue of such appointment longer than the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first annual election after the happening of the vacancy.
Read moreXIII.4 proposed for 1963
Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 4: Political year and legislative term.
The political year and legislative term shall begin on the first day of January; and the legislature shall, every year, assemble on the first Wednesday after the first Monday in January.
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Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 5: Removal from office for misconduct.
Provision shall be made by law for the removal for misconduct or malversation in office of all officers, except judicial, whose powers and duties are not local or legislative and who shall be elected at general elections, and also for supplying vacancies created by such removal.
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Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 6: When office to be deemed vacant; legislature may declare.
The legislature may declare the cases in which any office shall be deemed vacant when no provision is made for that purpose in this constitution.
Read moreXIII.7 proposed for 1963
Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 7: Compensation of officers.
No officer whose salary is fixed by this constitution shall receive any additional compensation. Each of the other state officers named in this constitution shall, during his continuance in office, receive a compensation, to be fixed by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed; nor shall he…
Read moreXIII.8 proposed for 1963
Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 8: Vacancies in office; how filled.
[emptied/renumbered as XIII.3 when that text was repealed]
Read moreXIII.9 proposed for 1963
Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 9: Political year and legislative term.
[emptied/renumbered as XIII.4 when that text was repealed]
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Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 10: Removal from office for misconduct.
[emptied/renumbered as XIII.5 when that text was repealed]
Read moreXIII.11 proposed for 1963
Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 11: When office to be deemed vacant; legislature may declare.
[emptied/renumbered as XIII.6 when that text was repealed]
Read moreXIII.12 proposed for 1963
Article XIII: Public Officers • Section 12: Compensation of officers.
[emptied/renumbered as XIII.7 when that text was repealed]
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