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Provisions

III.17 of 1965 • Cases in which private or local bills shall not be passed

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The Text

The legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of the following cases:
Changing the names of persons.
Laying out, opening, altering, working or discontinuing roads, highways or alleys, or for draining swamps or other low lands. Locating or changing county seats.
Providing for changes of venue in civil or criminal cases.
Incorporating villages.
Providing for election of members of boards of supervisors.
Selecting, drawing, summoning or empaneling grand or petit jurors.
Regulating the rate of interest on money.
The opening and conducting of elections or designating places of voting.
Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages or allowances of public officers, during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed.
Granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks.
Granting to any private corporation, association or individual any exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.
Granting to any person, association, firm or corporation, an exemption from taxation on real or personal property.
Providing for the building of bridges, except over the waters forming a part of the boundaries of the state, by other than a municipal or other public corporation or a public agency of the state.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1965

• In Article III: Legislature

• Has 196 words

• Was proposed by the Legislature

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 2 of 1964

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amends or builds on:
1939-III.17

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