Provisions
IX.15 of 1939 • Election of city officers and certain county officers to be held in odd-numbered years.
APPROVED
The Text
All elections of city officers, including supervisors, elected in any city or part of a city, and of county officers elected in any county wholly included in a city, except to fill vacancies, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in an odd-numbered year, and the term of every such officer shall expire at the end of an odd-numbered year. This section shall not apply to elections of any judicial officer.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article IX: Local Governments
• Has 76 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1924-XII.6
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