Provisions
X.1 proposed for 1870 • Corporations, how formed.
REJECTED
The Text
Corporations may be formed under general laws. They shall not be created nor their powers increased or diminished by special act, except for municipal, literary, scientific, charitable or benevolent purposes. All such laws may be altered or repealed. The Legislature shall not authorize the consolidation of railroad corporations owning parallel or competing lines of road.
A Few Facts
• Has 55 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 X:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-VIII.1
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