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Provisions

XVI.5 proposed for 1916 • Free passes of transportation, a misdemeanor.

REJECTED

The Text

No public officer, or person elected or appointed to a public office, under the laws of this state, shall directly or indirectly ask, demand, accept, receive or consent to receive for his own use or benefit, or for the use or benefit of another, any free pass, free transportation, franking privilege or discrimination in passenger, telegraph, or telephone rates, from any person or corporation, or make use of the same himself or in conjunction with another. A person who violates any provision of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit his office at the suit of the attorney-general. Any corporation, or officer or agent thereof, who shall offer or promise to a public officer, or person elected or appointed to a public office, any such free pass, free transportation, franking privilege or discrimination, shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to punishment except as herein provided. No person, or officer or agent of a corporation giving any such free pass, free transportation, franking privilege or discrimination hereby prohibited, shall be privileged from testifying in relation thereto, and he shall not be liable to civil or criminal prosecution therefor if he shall testify to the giving of the same.


A Few Facts

• Has 206 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 XVI: Official corruption

• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1895-XIII.5


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