Provisions
VIII.7 proposed for 1870 • State moneys not to be expended without appropriation.
REJECTED
The Text
No moneys shall be paid out of the treasury of the State, or funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law, nor unless such payment be made within two years after the passage of such appropriation ; and every law making, continuing, or reviving an appropriation, shall specify the sum appropriated, and the objects to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law for that purpose.
A Few Facts
• Has 83 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1869
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1870
• Been in Article VIII:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-VII.8
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