Provisions
XIII.10 of 1939 • Removal from office for misconduct.
APPROVED
The Text
Provision shall be made by law for the removal for misconduct or malversation in office of all officers, except judicial, whose powers and duties are not local or legislative and who shall be elected at general elections, and also for supplying vacancies created by such removal.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article XIII: Public Officers
• Has 46 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-X.7
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