Provisions
V.7 of 1939 • Membership in retirement systems; benefits not to be diminished nor impaired.
APPROVED
The Text
After July first, nineteen hundred forty, membership in any pension or retirement system of the state or of a civil division thereof shall be a contractual relationship, the benefits of which shall not be diminished or impaired.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article V: Officers And Civil Departments
• Has 37 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938
• Is a new addition
Credits
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