IV.6 proposed for 2002

Article IV: Executive • Section 6: Duties and compensation of lieutenant-governor; succession to the governorship

The lieutenant-governor shall possess the same qualifications of eligibility for office as the governor. The lieutenant-governor shall be the president of the senate but shall have only a casting vote therein. The lieutenant- governor shall receive for his or her services an annual salary to be fixed by joint resolution of the senate and assembly. In case of vacancy in…

IV.7 proposed for 2002

Article IV: Executive • Section 7: Action by governor on legislative bills; reconsideration after veto

Every bill which shall have passed the senate and assembly shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor; if the governor approve, he or she shall sign it; but if not, he or she shall return it with his or her objections to the house in which it shall have originated, which shall enter the objections at…

V.1 proposed for 2002

Article V: Officers And Civil Departments • Section 1: Comptroller and attorney-general; payment of state moneys without audit void

The comptroller and attorney-general shall be chosen at the same general election as the governor and hold office for the same term, and shall possess the qualifications provided in section 2 of article IV. The legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in the office of comptroller and of attorney-general. No election of a comptroller or an attorney-general shall be had…

V.6 proposed for 2002

Article V: Officers And Civil Departments • Section 6: Civil service appointments and promotions; veterans' credits

VI.2 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 2: Court of appeals; organization; designations; vacancies, how filled; commission on judicial nomination

a. The court of appeals is continued. It shall consist of the chief judge and the six elected associate judges now in office, who shall hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms, and their successors, and such justices of the supreme court as may be designated for service in said court as hereinafter provided. The official terms…

VI.3 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 3: Court of appeals; jurisdiction

a. The jurisdiction of the court of appeals shall be limited to the review of questions of law except where the judgment is of death, or where the appellate division, on reversing or modifying a final or interlocutory judgment in an action or a final or interlocutory order in a special proceeding, finds new facts and a final judgment or…

VI.4 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 4: Judicial departments; appellate divisions, how constituted; governor to designate justices; temporary assignments; jurisdiction

a. The state shall be divided into four judicial departments. The first department shall consist of the counties within the first judicial district of the state. The second department shall consist of the counties within the second, ninth, tenth and eleventh judicial districts of the state. The third department shall consist of the counties within the third, fourth and sixth…

VI.20 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 20: Judges and justices; qualifications; eligibility for other office or service; restrictions

a. No person, other than one who holds such office at the effective date of this article, may assume the office of judge of the court of appeals, justice of the supreme court, or judge of the court of claims unless he or she has been admitted to practice law in this state at least ten years. No person, other…

VI.22 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 22: Commission on judicial conduct; composition; organization and procedure; review by court of appeals; discipline of judges or justices

a. There shall be a commission on judicial conduct. The commission on judicial conduct shall receive, initiate, investigate and hear complaints with respect to the conduct, qualifications, fitness to perform or performance of official duties of any judge or justice of the unified court system, in the manner provided by law; and, in accordance with subdivision d of this section,…

VI.23 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 23: Removal of judges

a. 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. b. Judges of the court of claims, the county court, the surrogate’s court, the family court, the courts for the city of New…

VI.24 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 24: Court for trial of impeachments; judgment

The assembly shall have the power of impeachment by a vote of a majority of all the members elected thereto. 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…

VI.25 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 25: Judges and justices; compensation; retirement

a. The compensation of a judge of the court of appeals, a justice of the supreme court, a judge of the court of claims, a judge of the county court, a judge of the surrogate’s court, a judge of the family court, a judge of a court for the city of New York established pursuant to section fifteen of this…

VI.26 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 26: Temporary assignments of judges and justices

a. A justice of the supreme court may perform the duties of office or hold court in any county and may be temporarily assigned to the supreme court in any judicial district or to the court of claims. A justice of the supreme court in the city of New York may be temporarily assigned to the family court in the…

VI.27 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 27: Supreme court; extraordinary terms

The governor may, when in his or her opinion the public interest requires, appoint extraordinary terms of the supreme court. The governor shall designate the time and place of holding the term and the justice who shall hold the term. The governor may terminate the assignment of the justice and may name another justice in his or her place to…

VI.28 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 28: Administrative supervision of court system

a. The chief judge of the court of appeals shall be the chief judge of the state of New York and shall be the chief judicial officer of the unified court system. There shall be an administrative board of the courts which shall consist of the chief judge of the court of appeals as chairperson and the presiding justice of…

VI.35 proposed for 2002

Article VI: Judiciary • Section 35: Certain courts abolished; transfer of judges, court personnel, and actions and proceedings to other courts

a. The children’s courts, the court of general sessions of the county of New York, the county courts of the counties of Bronx, Kings, Queens and Richmond, the city court of the city of New York, the domestic relations court of the city of New York, the municipal court of the city of New York, the court of special sessions…

VII.1 proposed for 2002

Article VII: State Finances • Section 1: Estimates by departments, the legislature and the judiciary of needed appropriations; hearings

For the preparation of the budget, the head of each department of state government, except the legislature and judiciary, shall furnish the governor such estimates and information in such form and at such times as the governor may require, copies of which shall forthwith be furnished to the appropriate committees of the legislature. The governor shall hold hearings thereon at…

VII.2 proposed for 2002

Article VII: State Finances • Section 2: Executive budget

Annually, on or before the first day of February in each year following the year fixed by the constitution for the election of governor and lieutenant governor, and on or before the second Tuesday following the first day of the annual meeting of the legislature, in all other years, the governor shall submit to the legislature a budget containing a…

VII.3 proposed for 2002

Article VII: State Finances • Section 3: Budget bills; appearances before legislature

At the time of submitting the budget to the legislature the governor shall submit a bill or bills containing all the proposed appropriations and reappropriations included in the budget and the proposed legislation, if any, recommended therein. The governor may at any time within thirty days thereafter and, with the consent of the legislature, at any time before the adjournment…

VII.4 proposed for 2002

Article VII: State Finances • Section 4: Action on budget bills by legislature; effect thereof

The legislature may not alter an appropriation bill submitted by the governor except to strike out or reduce items therein, but it may add thereto items of appropriation provided that such additions are stated separately and distinctly from the original items of the bill and refer each to a single object or purpose. None of the restrictions of this section,…