Provisions
VIII.27 proposed for 1916 • Courts of Special Sessions.
REJECTED
The Text
Courts of special sessions and inferior local courts of similar character shall have such jurisdiction of offenses of the grade of misdemeanors as may be prescribed by law.
A Few Facts
• Has 28 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 VIII: Judiciary
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-VI.23
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