https://coswiki.qacos.com/ 2026-06-02T18:04:39+00:00 https://coswiki.qacos.com/ https://coswiki.qacos.com/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2021-03-04T11:17:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:index&rev=1614874633&do=diff New York New York Constitution New York Constitution New York District Map NY Map Note: Use the Layers icon (upper left), and check the NY Assembly box on top. Uncheck the others. text/html 2021-03-08T12:51:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_constitution&rev=1615225869&do=diff The Constitution of the State of New York Source: https://www.dos.ny.gov/info/constitution/index.html THE CONSTITUTION 1 [Preamble] WE THE PEOPLE of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our Freedom, in order to secure its blessings, DO ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION. * Section headings and annotations [enclosed in brackets] and footnotes throughout this document are not a part of the official text. text/html 2021-03-08T12:17:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_ai&rev=1615223833&do=diff ARTICLE I BILL OF RIGHTS §1. Rights, privileges and franchise secured; power of legislature to dispense with primary elections in certain cases. 2. Trial by jury; how waived. 3. Freedom of worship; religious liberty. 4. Habeas corpus. text/html 2021-03-08T12:41:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_aii&rev=1615225304&do=diff ARTICLE II SUFFRAGE [Qualifications of voters] 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 of this state, and of the county, city, or village for thirty days next preceding an election. (Amended by Constitutional Convention of 1938 and approved by vote of the people November 8, 193… text/html 2021-03-08T12:44:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_aiii&rev=1615225482&do=diff ARTICLE III LEGISLATURE [Legislative power] Section 1. The legislative power of this state shall be vested in the senate and assembly. [Number and terms of senators and assemblymen] §2. The senate shall consist of fifty members (1) , 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 one hundred and fif… text/html 2021-03-08T12:46:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_aiv&rev=1615225566&do=diff ARTICLE IV EXECUTIVE [Executive power; election and terms of governor and lieutenant- governor] Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in the governor, who shall hold office for four years; the lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the same time, and for the same term. The governor and lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the general election held in the year nineteen hundred thirty-eight, and each fourth year thereafter. They shall be chosen jointly, by the casting by each voter of… text/html 2021-02-28T21:02:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_aix&rev=1614564148&do=diff ARTICLE IX LOCAL GOVERNMENTS [Bill of rights for local governments] Section 1. Effective local self-government and intergovernmental cooperation are purposes of the people of the state. In furtherance thereof, local governments shall have the following rights, powers, privileges and immunities in addition to those granted by other provisions of this constitution: text/html 2021-03-08T12:47:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_av&rev=1615225660&do=diff ARTICLE V OFFICERS AND CIVIL DEPARTMENTS [Comptroller and attorney-general; payment of state moneys without audit void] Section 1. The comptroller and attorney-general shall be chosen at the same general election as the governor and hold office for the same term, and shall possess the qualifications provided in section 2 of article IV. The legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in the office of comptroller and of attorney-general. No election of a comptroller or an attorney-general sh… text/html 2021-03-08T12:49:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_avi&rev=1615225773&do=diff ARTICLE VI JUDICIARY [Unified court system; organization; process] Section 1. a. There shall be a unified court system for the state. The state-wide courts shall consist of the court of appeals, the supreme court including the appellate divisions thereof, the court of claims, the county court, the surrogate’s court and the family court, as hereinafter provided. The legislature shall establish in and for the city of New York, as part of the unified court system for the state, a single, ci… text/html 2021-02-28T20:27:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_avii&rev=1614562068&do=diff ARTICLE VII STATE FINANCES [Estimates by departments, the legislature and the judiciary of needed appropriations; hearings] Section 1. For the preparation of the budget, the head of each department of state government, except the legislature and judiciary, shall furnish the governor such estimates and information in such form and at such times as the governor may require, copies of which shall forthwith be furnished to the appropriate committees of the legislature. The governor shall hold… text/html 2021-02-28T20:46:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_aviii&rev=1614563170&do=diff ARTICLE VIII LOCAL FINANCES [Gift or loan of property or credit of local subdivisions prohibited; exceptions for enumerated purposes] Section 1.  No county, city, town, village or school district shall give or loan any money or property to or in aid of any individual, or private corporation or association, or private undertaking, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any private corporation or association; nor shall any county, city, town, village or school… text/html 2021-02-28T21:15:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_ax&rev=1614564914&do=diff ARTICLE X CORPORATIONS [Corporations; formation of] Section 1.   Corporations may be formed under general law; but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws. All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time or repealed. (Formerly §1 of Art. 8. Renumbered by Constitutional Convention of 1938 an… text/html 2021-02-28T21:55:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axi&rev=1614567346&do=diff ARTICLE XI EDUCATION [Common schools] Section 1.  The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated. (Formerly §1 of Art. 9. Renumbered by Constitutional Convention of 1938 and approved by vote of the people November 8, 1938.) text/html 2021-02-28T22:08:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axii&rev=1614568134&do=diff ARTICLE XII DEFENSE [Defense; militia] Section 1. The defense and protection of the state and of the United States is an obligation of all persons within the state. The legislature shall provide for the discharge of this obligation and for the maintenance and regulation of an organized militia. text/html 2021-02-28T22:29:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axiii&rev=1614569379&do=diff ARTICLE XIII PUBLIC OFFICERS [Oath of office; no other test for public office] Section 1. Members of the legislature, and all officers, executive and judicial, except such inferior officers as shall be by law exempted, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear  (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York, and that I wil… text/html 2021-02-28T22:38:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axiv&rev=1614569939&do=diff ARTICLE XIV CONSERVATION [Forest preserve to be forever kept wild; authorized uses and exceptions] Section 1. The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the state from constructing, comple… text/html 2021-02-28T23:38:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axix&rev=1614573500&do=diff ARTICLE XIX AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION [Amendments to constitution; how proposed, voted upon and ratified; failure of attorney-general to render opinion not to affect validity] 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 render an opinion in writing to the senate and assembly as to the effect of suc… text/html 2021-02-28T23:03:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axv&rev=1614571423&do=diff ARTICLE XV CANALS [Disposition of canals and canal properties prohibited] Section 1. The legislature shall not sell, abandon or otherwise dispose of the now existing or future improved barge canal, the divisions of which are the Erie canal, the Oswego canal, the Champlain canal, and the Cayuga and Seneca canals, or of the terminals constructed as part of the barge canal system; nor shall it sell, abandon or otherwise dispose of any portion of the canal system existing prior to the barge can… text/html 2021-02-28T23:11:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axvi&rev=1614571895&do=diff ARTICLE XVI TAXATION [Power of taxation; exemptions from taxation] Section 1. The power of taxation shall never be surrendered, suspended or contracted away, except as to securities issued for public purposes pursuant to law. Any laws which delegate the taxing power shall specify the types of taxes which may be imposed thereunder and provide for their review. text/html 2021-02-28T23:20:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axvii&rev=1614572421&do=diff ARTICLE XVII SOCIAL WELFARE [Public relief and care] Section 1. The aid, care and support of the needy are public concerns and shall be provided by the state and by such of its subdivisions, and in such manner and by such means, as the legislature may from time to time determine. (New. Adopted by Constitutional Convention of 1938 and approved by vote of the people November 8, 1938.) text/html 2021-02-28T23:30:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axviii&rev=1614573016&do=diff ARTICLE XVIII HOUSING [Housing and nursing home accommodations for persons of low income; slum clearance] Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this article, the legislature may provide in such manner, by such means and upon such terms and conditions as it may prescribe for low rent housing and nursing home accommodations for persons of low income as defined by law, or for the clearance, replanning, reconstruction and rehabilitation of substandard and insanitary areas, or for both such … text/html 2021-02-28T23:44:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_axx&rev=1614573840&do=diff ARTICLE XX WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT [Time of taking 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. (Formerly §1 of Art. 15. Renumbered and amended by Constitutional Convention of 1938 and approved by vote of the people November 8, 1938.) text/html 2021-03-08T12:51:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://coswiki.qacos.com/doku.php?id=historicaldocuments:states:newyork:ny_const_toc&rev=1615225863&do=diff Table of Contents ARTICLE I BILL OF RIGHTS Rights, privileges and franchise secured; power of legislature to dispense with primary elections in certain cases. Trial by jury; how waived. Freedom of worship; religious liberty. Habeas corpus. Bail; fines; punishments; detention of witnesses. Grand jury; protection of certain enumerated rights; duty of public officers to sign waiver of immunity and give testimony; penalty for refusal. Compensation for taking private property; private roads; dra…