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N.Y. Constitution § A18S5 Liability for certain loans made by the state to certain public corporations
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§ 5. Any city, town or village shall be liable for the repayment of any loans and interest thereon made by the state to any public corporation, acting as an instrumentality of such city, town or village. Such liability of a city, town or village shall be excluded in ascertaining…
N.Y. Constitution § A18S6 Loans and subsidies; restrictions on and preference in occupancy of projects
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§ 6. No loan, or subsidy shall be made by the state to aid any project unless such project is in conformity with a plan or undertaking for the clearance, replanning and reconstruction or rehabilitation of a sub-standard and unsanitary area or areas and for recreational and other…
N.Y. Constitution § A18S7 Liability arising from guarantees to be deemed indebtedness; method of computing
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§ 7. The liability arising from any guarantee of the principal of and interest on indebtedness contracted by a public corporation shall be deemed indebtedness in the amount of the face value of the principal thereof remaining unpaid. The liability arising from any guarantee of o…
N.Y. Constitution § A18S8 Excess condemnation
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§ 8. Any agency of the state or any city, town, village, or public corporation, which is empowered by law to take private property by eminent domain for any of the public purposes specified in section one of this article, may be empowered by the legislature to take property nece…
N.Y. Constitution § A18S9 Acquisition of property for purposes of article
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§ 9. Subject to any limitation imposed by the legislature, the state, or any city, town, village or public corporation, may acquire by purchase, gift, eminent domain or otherwise, such property as it may deem ultimately necessary or proper to effectuate the purposes of this arti…
N.Y. Constitution § A19S1 Amendments to constitution; how proposed, voted upon and ratified; failure of attorney-general to render opinion not to affect validity
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ARTICLE XIX Amendments to Constitution Section 1. Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly whereupon such amendment or amendments shall be referred to the attorney-general whose duty it shall be within twenty days thereafter to …
N.Y. Constitution § A19S2 Future constitutional conventions; how called; election of delegates; compensation; quorum; submission of amendments; officers; employees; rules; vacancies
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§ 2. At the general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred fifty-seven, and every twentieth year thereafter, and also at such times as the legislature may by law provide, the question "Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?" shall be…
N.Y. Constitution § A19S3 Amendments simultaneously submitted by convention and legislature
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§ 3. Any amendment proposed by a constitutional convention relating to the same subject as an amendment proposed by the legislature, coincidently submitted to the people for approval shall, if approved, be deemed to supersede the amendment so proposed by the legislature.
N.Y. Constitution § A1S1 Rights, privileges and franchise secured; uncontested primary elections
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ARTICLE I Bill of Rights Section 1. No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his or her peers, except that the legislature may provide that the…
N.Y. Constitution § A1S11 Equal protection of laws; discrimination in civil rights prohibited
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§ 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…
N.Y. Constitution § A1S12 Security against unreasonable searches, seizures and interceptions
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§ 12. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the pla…
N.Y. Constitution § A1S14 Common law and acts of the state legislatures
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§ 14. Such parts of the common law, and of the acts of the legislature of the colony of New York, as together did form the law of the said colony, on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred seventy-five, and the resolutions of the congress of the said colony, and…
N.Y. Constitution § A1S16 Damages for injuries causing death
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§ 16. The right of action now existing to recover damages for injuries resulting in death, shall never be abrogated; and the amount recoverable shall not be subject to any statutory limitation.
N.Y. Constitution § A1S17 Labor not a commodity; hours and wages in public work; right to organize and bargain collectively
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§ 17. Labor of human beings is not a commodity nor an article of commerce and shall never be so considered or construed. No laborer, worker or mechanic, in the employ of a contractor or sub-contractor engaged in the performance of any public work, shall be permitted to work more…
N.Y. Constitution § A1S18 Workers' compensation
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§ 18. Nothing contained in this constitution shall be construed to limit the power of the legislature to enact laws for the protection of the lives, health, or safety of employees; or for the payment, either by employers, or by employers and employees or otherwise, either direct…
N.Y. Constitution § A1S19 Environmental rights
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§ 19. Environmental rights. Each person shall have a right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment.
N.Y. Constitution § A1S2 Trial by jury; how waived
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§ 2. Trial by jury in all cases in which it has heretofore been guaranteed by constitutional provision shall remain inviolate forever; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner to be prescribed by law. The legislature may provide, however, by…
N.Y. Constitution § A1S3 Freedom of worship; religious liberty
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§ 3. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this state to all humankind; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his or her opinions on matters of re…
N.Y. Constitution § A1S4 Habeas corpus
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§ 4. The privilege of a writ or order of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless, in case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety requires it.
N.Y. Constitution § A1S5 Bail; fines; punishments; detention of witnesses
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§ 5. Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed, nor shall cruel and unusual punishments be inflicted, nor shall witnesses be unreasonably detained.
N.Y. Constitution § A1S6 Grand jury; waiver of indictment; right to counsel; informing accused; double jeopardy; self-incrimination; waiver of immunity by public officers; due process of law
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§ 6. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service, and the land, air and naval forces in time of war, or which this state may keep with the consent of congress in time …
N.Y. Constitution § A1S7 Just compensation for taking private property; private roads; drainage of agricultural lands
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§ 7. (a) Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation. (c) Private roads may be opened in the manner to be prescribed by law; but in every case the necessity of the road and the amount of all damage to be sustained by the opening thereof shall be …
N.Y. Constitution § A1S8 Freedom of speech and press; criminal prosecutions for libel
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§ 8. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for l…
N.Y. Constitution § A1S9 Right to assemble and petition; divorce; lotteries; pool-selling and gambling; laws to prevent; certain state operated lotteries authorized; pari-mutuel betting on horse races, and bingo or lotto permitted
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§ 9. 1. No law shall be passed abridging the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government, or any department thereof; nor shall any divorce be granted otherwise than by due judicial proceedings; except as hereinafter provided, no lottery or the sale …
N.Y. Constitution § A20S1 Time of taking effect
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ARTICLE XX When to Take Effect Section 1. This constitution shall be in force from and including the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred thirty-nine, except as herein otherwise provided.
N.Y. Constitution § A2S1 Qualifications of voters
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ARTICLE II Suffrage Section 1. Every citizen shall be entitled to vote at every election for all officers elected by the people and upon all questions submitted to the vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen years of age or over and shall have been a resident o…
N.Y. Constitution § A2S2 Absentee voting
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§ 2. The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who, on the occurrence of any election, may be absent from the county of their residence or, if residents of the city of New York, from the city, and qualified …
N.Y. Constitution § A2S3 Persons excluded from the right of suffrage
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§ 3. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an ele…
N.Y. Constitution § A2S4 Certain occupations and conditions not to affect residence
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§ 4. For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence, by reason of his or her presence or absence, while employed in the service of the United States; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this state, or of the United States…
N.Y. Constitution § A2S5 Registration and election laws to be passed
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§ 5. Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election. Such registration shall n…
N.Y. Constitution § A2S6 Permanent registration
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§ 6. The legislature may provide by law for a system or systems of registration whereby upon personal application a voter may be registered and his or her registration continued so long as he or she shall remain qualified to vote from an address within the jurisdiction of the bo…
N.Y. Constitution § A2S7 Manner of voting; identification of voters
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§ 7. All elections by the citizens, except for such town officers as may by law be directed to be otherwise chosen, shall be by ballot, or by such other method as may be prescribed by law, provided that secrecy in voting be preserved. The legislature shall provide for identifica…
N.Y. Constitution § A2S8 Bi-partisan registration and election boards
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§ 8. All laws creating, regulating or affecting boards or officers charged with the duty of qualifying voters, or of distributing ballots to voters, or of receiving, recording or counting votes at elections, shall secure equal representation of the two political parties which, a…
N.Y. Constitution § A2S9 Entitlement to vote for presidential electors
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§ 9. Notwithstanding the residence requirements imposed by section one of this article, the legislature may, by general law, provide special procedures whereby every person who shall have moved from another state to this state or from one county, city or village within this stat…
N.Y. Constitution § A3S1 Legislative power
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ARTICLE III Legislature Section 1. The legislative power of this state shall be vested in the senate and assembly.
N.Y. Constitution § A3S10 Journals; open sessions; adjournments
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§ 10. Each house of the legislature shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish the same, except such parts as may require secrecy. The doors of each house shall be kept open, except when the public welfare shall require secrecy. Neither house shall, without the consent…
N.Y. Constitution § A3S11 Members not to be questioned for speeches
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§ 11. For any speech or debate in either house of the legislature, the members shall not be questioned in any other place.
N.Y. Constitution § A3S12 Bills may originate in either house; may be amended by the other
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§ 12. Any bill may originate in either house of the legislature, and all bills passed by one house may be amended by the other.
N.Y. Constitution § A3S13 Enacting clause of bills; no law to be enacted except by bill
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§ 13. The enacting clause of all bills shall be "The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows," and no law shall be enacted except by bill.
N.Y. Constitution § A3S14 Manner of passing bills; message of necessity for immediate vote
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§ 14. No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless the governor, or the acting governor, shall have certified, under his…
N.Y. Constitution § A3S15 Private or local bills to embrace only one subject to be expressed in title
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§ 15. No private or local bill, which may be passed by the legislature, shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
N.Y. Constitution § A3S16 Existing law not to be made applicable by reference
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§ 16. No act shall be passed which shall provide that any existing law, or any part thereof, shall be made or deemed a part of said act, or which shall enact that any existing law, or part thereof, shall be applicable, except by inserting it in such act.
N.Y. Constitution § A3S17 Cases in which private or local bills shall not be passed
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§ 17. The legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of the following cases: Changing the names of persons. Laying out, opening, altering, working or discontinuing roads, highways or alleys, or for draining swamps or other low lands. Locating or changing county se…
N.Y. Constitution § A3S18 Extraordinary sessions of the legislature; power to convene on legislative initiative
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§ 18. The members of the legislature shall be empowered, upon the presentation to the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly of a petition signed by two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the legislature, to convene the legislature on extra…
N.Y. Constitution § A3S19 Private claims not to be audited by legislature; claims barred by lapse of time
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§ 19. The legislature shall neither audit nor allow any private claim or account against the state, but may appropriate money to pay such claims as shall have been audited and allowed according to law. No claim against the state shall be audited, allowed or paid which, as betwee…
N.Y. Constitution § A3S2 Number and terms of senators and assembly members
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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…
N.Y. Constitution § A3S20 Two-thirds bills
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§ 20. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property for local or private purposes.
N.Y. Constitution § A3S21 Certain sections not to apply to bills recommended by certain commissioners or public agencies
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§ 21. Sections 15, 16, and 17 of this article shall not apply to any bill, or the amendments to any bill, which shall be recommended to the legislature by commissioners or any public agency appointed or directed pursuant to law to prepare revisions, consolidations or compilation…
N.Y. Constitution § A3S22 Tax laws to state tax and object distinctly; exception
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§ 22. Every law which imposes, continues or revives a tax shall distinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this …
N.Y. Constitution § A3S23 When yeas and nays necessary; three-fifths to constitute quorum
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§ 23. On the final passage, in either house of the legislature, of any act which imposes, continues or revives a tax, or creates a debt or charge, or makes, continues or revives any appropriation of public or trust money or property, or releases, discharges or commutes any claim…