Provisions
IV.1 proposed for 1916 • Executive power, how vested.
REJECTED
The Text
The executive power shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for two years. A lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the same time and for the same term. The governor shall receive for his services an annual salary of ten thousand dollars until the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, after which he shall receive for his services an annual salary of twenty thousand dollars. There shall be provided for his use a suitable and furnished executive residence.
A Few Facts
• Has 85 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article IV: Executive
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-IV.1
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