Provisions
XIII.6 proposed for 1916 • Removal from office.
REJECTED
The Text
Provision shall be made by law for the removal for misconduct or malversation in office of all officers, except judicial, whose powers and duties are not local or legislative and who shall be elected at general elections, and also for filling vacancies created by such removal.
A Few Facts
• Has 46 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.7
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