Provisions
III.22 of 1939 • Tax laws to state tax and object distinctly.
APPROVED
The Text
Every law which imposes, continues or revives a tax shall distinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article III: Legislature
• Has 42 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1895-III.24
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