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Provisions

X.5 of 1895 • Vacancies in office, how filled.

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The Text

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.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1895

• In Article X: Local Officers; General Provisions

• Has 51 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1894

• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision

• Amends or builds on:
1847-X.5

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