Title CNS, Constitution

§ 5. Any city, town or village shall be liable for the repayment of\nany loans and interest thereon made by the state to any public\ncorporation, acting as an instrumentality of such city, town or village.\nSuch liability of a city, town or village shall be excluded in\nascertai…

§ 6. No loan, or subsidy shall be made by the state to aid any project\nunless such project is in conformity with a plan or undertaking for the\nclearance, replanning and reconstruction or rehabilitation of a\nsub-standard and unsanitary area or areas and for recreational and ot…

§ 7. The liability arising from any guarantee of the principal of and\ninterest on indebtedness contracted by a public corporation shall be\ndeemed indebtedness in the amount of the face value of the principal\nthereof remaining unpaid. The liability arising from any guarantee o…

§ 8. Any agency of the state or any city, town, village, or public\ncorporation, which is empowered by law to take private property by\neminent domain for any of the public purposes specified in section one\nof this article, may be empowered by the legislature to take property\n…

§ 9. Subject to any limitation imposed by the legislature, the state,\nor any city, town, village or public corporation, may acquire by\npurchase, gift, eminent domain or otherwise, such property as it may\ndeem ultimately necessary or proper to effectuate the purposes of this\n…

ARTICLE XIX\n Amendments to Constitution\n Section 1. Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be\nproposed in the senate and assembly whereupon such amendment or\namendments shall be referred to the attorney-general whose duty it shall\nbe within twenty days thereaf…

§ 2. At the general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred\nfifty-seven, and every twentieth year thereafter, and also at such times\nas the legislature may by law provide, the question "Shall there be a\nconvention to revise the constitution and amend the same?" shall…

§ 3. Any amendment proposed by a constitutional convention relating to\nthe same subject as an amendment proposed by the legislature,\ncoincidently submitted to the people for approval shall, if approved, be\ndeemed to supersede the amendment so proposed by the legislature.\n

ARTICLE I\n Bill of Rights\n Section 1. No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived\nof any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof,\nunless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his or her peers,\nexcept that the legislature may provide t…

§ 11. a. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of\nthis state or any subdivision thereof. No person shall, because of race,\ncolor, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or\nsex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender e…

§ 12. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,\npapers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall\nnot be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,\nsupported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the …

§ 14. Such parts of the common law, and of the acts of the legislature\nof the colony of New York, as together did form the law of the said\ncolony, on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred\nseventy-five, and the resolutions of the congress of the said colony,\…

§ 16. The right of action now existing to recover damages for injuries\nresulting in death, shall never be abrogated; and the amount recoverable\nshall not be subject to any statutory limitation.\n

§ 17. Labor of human beings is not a commodity nor an article of\ncommerce and shall never be so considered or construed.\n No laborer, worker or mechanic, in the employ of a contractor or\nsub-contractor engaged in the performance of any public work, shall be\npermitted to work…

§ 18. Nothing contained in this constitution shall be construed to\nlimit the power of the legislature to enact laws for the protection of\nthe lives, health, or safety of employees; or for the payment, either by\nemployers, or by employers and employees or otherwise, either dir…

§ 19. Environmental rights. Each person shall have a right to clean air\nand water, and a healthful environment.\n

§ 2. Trial by jury in all cases in which it has heretofore been\nguaranteed by constitutional provision shall remain inviolate forever;\nbut a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the\nmanner to be prescribed by law. The legislature may provide, however,…

§ 3. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and\nworship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed\nin this state to all humankind; and no person shall be rendered\nincompetent to be a witness on account of his or her opinions on matters\no…

§ 4. The privilege of a writ or order of habeas corpus shall not be\nsuspended, unless, in case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety\nrequires it.\n

§ 5. Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed,\nnor shall cruel and unusual punishments be inflicted, nor shall\nwitnesses be unreasonably detained.\n

§ 6. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise\ninfamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia\nwhen in actual service, and the land, air and naval forces in time of\nwar, or which this state may keep with the consent of congress in ti…

§ 7. (a) Private property shall not be taken for public use without\njust compensation.\n (c) Private roads may be opened in the manner to be prescribed by law;\nbut in every case the necessity of the road and the amount of all damage\nto be sustained by the opening thereof shal…

§ 8. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his or her\nsentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that\nright; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of\nspeech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments fo…

§ 9. 1. No law shall be passed abridging the rights of the people\npeaceably to assemble and to petition the government, or any department\nthereof; nor shall any divorce be granted otherwise than by due judicial\nproceedings; except as hereinafter provided, no lottery or the sa…

ARTICLE XX\n When to Take Effect\n Section 1. This constitution shall be in force from and including the\nfirst day of January, one thousand nine hundred thirty-nine, except as\nherein otherwise provided.\n

ARTICLE II\n Suffrage\n Section 1. Every citizen shall be entitled to vote at every election\nfor all officers elected by the people and upon all questions submitted\nto the vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen years\nof age or over and shall have been a res…

§ 2. The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which,\nand the time and place at which, qualified voters who, on the occurrence\nof any election, may be absent from the county of their residence or, if\nresidents of the city of New York, from the city, and qualifi…

§ 3. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay,\noffer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to\nanother, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a\ncompensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an\…

§ 4. For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have\ngained or lost a residence, by reason of his or her presence or absence,\nwhile employed in the service of the United States; nor while engaged in\nthe navigation of the waters of this state, or of the United Sta…

§ 5. Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the\ncitizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby\nestablished, and for the registration of voters; which registration\nshall be completed at least ten days before each election. Such\nregistration sha…

§ 6. The legislature may provide by law for a system or systems of\nregistration whereby upon personal application a voter may be registered\nand his or her registration continued so long as he or she shall remain\nqualified to vote from an address within the jurisdiction of the…

§ 7. All elections by the citizens, except for such town officers as\nmay by law be directed to be otherwise chosen, shall be by ballot, or by\nsuch other method as may be prescribed by law, provided that secrecy in\nvoting be preserved. The legislature shall provide for identif…

§ 8. All laws creating, regulating or affecting boards or officers\ncharged with the duty of qualifying voters, or of distributing ballots\nto voters, or of receiving, recording or counting votes at elections,\nshall secure equal representation of the two political parties which…

§ 9. Notwithstanding the residence requirements imposed by section one\nof this article, the legislature may, by general law, provide special\nprocedures whereby every person who shall have moved from another state\nto this state or from one county, city or village within this s…

ARTICLE III\n Legislature\n Section 1. The legislative power of this state shall be vested in the\nsenate and assembly.\n

§ 10. Each house of the legislature shall keep a journal of its\nproceedings, and publish the same, except such parts as may require\nsecrecy. The doors of each house shall be kept open, except when the\npublic welfare shall require secrecy. Neither house shall, without the\ncon…

§ 11. For any speech or debate in either house of the legislature, the\nmembers shall not be questioned in any other place.\n

§ 12. Any bill may originate in either house of the legislature, and\nall bills passed by one house may be amended by the other.\n

§ 13. The enacting clause of all bills shall be "The People of the\nState of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as\nfollows," and no law shall be enacted except by bill.\n

§ 14. No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have\nbeen printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at\nleast three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless\nthe governor, or the acting governor, shall have certified, under …

§ 15. No private or local bill, which may be passed by the\nlegislature, shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be\nexpressed in the title.\n

§ 16. No act shall be passed which shall provide that any existing\nlaw, or any part thereof, shall be made or deemed a part of said act, or\nwhich shall enact that any existing law, or part thereof, shall be\napplicable, except by inserting it in such act.\n

§ 17. The legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of\nthe following cases:\n Changing the names of persons.\n Laying out, opening, altering, working or discontinuing roads,\nhighways or alleys, or for draining swamps or other low lands. Locating\nor changing co…

§ 18. The members of the legislature shall be empowered, upon the\npresentation to the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of\nthe assembly of a petition signed by two-thirds of the members elected\nto each house of the legislature, to convene the legislature on\ne…

§ 19. The legislature shall neither audit nor allow any private claim\nor account against the state, but may appropriate money to pay such\nclaims as shall have been audited and allowed according to law.\n No claim against the state shall be audited, allowed or paid which, as\nb…

§ 2. The senate shall consist of fifty members, except as hereinafter\nprovided. The senators elected in the year one thousand eight hundred\nand ninety-five shall hold their offices for three years, and their\nsuccessors shall be chosen for two years. The assembly shall consist…

§ 20. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch\nof the legislature shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the\npublic moneys or property for local or private purposes.\n

§ 21. Sections 15, 16, and 17 of this article shall not apply to any\nbill, or the amendments to any bill, which shall be recommended to the\nlegislature by commissioners or any public agency appointed or directed\npursuant to law to prepare revisions, consolidations or compilat…

§ 22. Every law which imposes, continues or revives a tax shall\ndistinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied,\nand it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax\nor object.\n Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of …

§ 23. On the final passage, in either house of the legislature, of any\nact which imposes, continues or revives a tax, or creates a debt or\ncharge, or makes, continues or revives any appropriation of public or\ntrust money or property, or releases, discharges or commutes any cl…