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N.Y. Const. art. III, § 1 Number and terms of senators and assemblymen
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§2. The senate shall consist of fifty members, except as hereinafter provided. The senators elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five shall hold their offices for three years, and their successors shall be chosen for two years. The assembly shall consist of o…
N.Y. Const. art. III, § 2 Senate districts[15]
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§3. The senate districts described in section three of article three of this constitution as adopted by the people on November sixth, eighteen hundred ninety-four are hereby continued for all of the purposes of future reapportionments of senate districts pursuant to section four …
N.Y. Const. art. III, § 3 Readjustments and reapportionments; when federal census to control
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§4. Except as herein otherwise provided, the federal census taken in the year nineteen hundred thirty and each federal census taken decennially thereafter shall be controlling as to the number of inhabit-ants in the state or any part thereof for the purposes of the apportion¬ment…
N.Y. Const. art. III, § 4 Apportionment of assemblymen; creation of assembly districts
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§5. The members of the assembly shall be chosen by single districts and shall be apportioned by the legislature at each regular session at which the senate districts are readjusted or altered, and by the same law, among the several counties of the state, as nearly as may be accor…