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Provisions

V.2 of 1895 • Same subject — Terms of office.

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The Text

The first election of the secretary of State, comptroller, treasurer, attorney general, and State engineer and surveyor, pursuant to this article, shall be held in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and their terms of office shall begin on the first day of January following, and shall be for three years. At the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and every two years thereafter, their successors shall be chosen for the term of two years.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1895

• In Article V: State Officers; Civil Service

• Has 82 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1894

• Is a new addition

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