Provisions
XIII.5 proposed for 1916 • Vacancies in office, how filled.
REJECTED
The Text
The legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in office, and in case of elective officers, no person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold his office by virtue of such appointment longer than the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first annual election after the happening of the vacancy.
A Few Facts
• Has 51 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 XIII: Officers generally
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-X.5
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