New york constitution

Article I: bill of rights

Section 1 - No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived...

Section 2 - Trial by jury in all cases in which it has...

Section 3 - The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship,...

Section 4 - The privilege of a writ or order of habeas corpus...

Section 5 - Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed,...

Section 6 - The power of grand juries to inquire into the wilful...

Section 7 - (d) The use of property for the drainage of swamp...

Section 8 - Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his or...

Section 9 - 1. No law shall be passed abridging the rights of...

Section 10 - Repealed.''

Section 11 - No person shall be denied the equal protection of the...

Section 12 - The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable...

Section 13 - Repealed.

Section 14 - Such parts of the common law, and of the acts...

Section 16 - The right of action now existing to recover damages for...

Section 17 - Employees shall have the right to organize and to bargain...

Section 18 - Nothing contained in this constitution shall be construed to limit...

Section 19 - Each person shall have a right to clean air and...

Article II: suffrage

Section 1 - Every citizen shall be entitled to vote at every election...

Section 2 - The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in...

Section 3 - No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive,...

Section 4 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed...

Section 5 - Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the...

Section 6 - The legislature may provide by law for a system or...

Section 7 - All elections by the citizens, except for such town officers...

Section 8 - All laws creating, regulating or affecting boards or officers charged...

Section 9 - Notwithstanding the residence requirements imposed by section one of this...

Article III: legislature

Section 1 - The legislative power of this state shall be vested in...

Section 2 - The senate shall consist of fifty members,* except as hereinafter...

Section 3 - The senate districts described in section three of article three...

Section 4 - (e) The process for redistricting congressional and state legislative districts...

Section 5 - An apportionment by the legislature, or other body, shall be...

Section 5-a - For the purpose of apportioning senate and assembly districts pursuant...

Section 6 - Each member of the legislature shall receive for his or...

Section 7 - No person shall serve as a member of the legislature...

Section 8 - The elections of senators and members of assembly, pursuant to...

Section 9 - A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to...

Section 10 - Each house of the legislature shall keep a journal of...

Section 11 - For any speech or debate in either house of the...

Section 12 - Any bill may originate in either house of the legislature,...

Section 13 - The enacting clause of all bills shall be "The People...

Section 14 - For purposes of this section, a bill shall be deemed...

Section 15 - No private or local bill, which may be passed by...

Section 16 - No act shall be passed which shall provide that any...

Section 17 - Providing for the building of bridges, except over the waters...

Section 18 - The members of the legislature shall be empowered, upon the...

Section 19 - No claim against the state shall be audited, allowed or...

Section 20 - The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each...

Section 21 - Sections 15, 16 and 17 of this article shall not...

Section 22 - Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this constitution,...

Section 23 - On the final passage, in either house of the legislature,...

Section 24 - The legislature shall, by law, provide for the occupation and...

Section 25 - Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit in...

Article IV: executive

Section 1 - The executive power shall be vested in the governor, who...

Section 2 - No person shall be eligible to the office of governor...

Section 3 - The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military and naval...

Section 4 - The governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations...

Section 5 - In case of the failure of the governor-elect to take...

Section 6 - The legislature may provide for the devolution of the duty...

Section 7 - Every bill which shall have passed the senate and assembly...

Section 8 - No rule or regulation made by any state department, board,...

Article V: officers and civil departments

Section 1 - The comptroller and attorney-general shall be chosen at the same...

Section 2 - There shall be not more than twenty civil departments in...

Section 3 - Subject to the limitations contained in this constitution, the legislature...

Section 4 - The head of the department of audit and control shall...

Section 6 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state...

Section 7 - (d) Paragraph (b) of this section shall only apply to...

Article VI: judiciary

Section 1 - c. All processes, warrants and other mandates of the court...

Section 2 - g. The provisions of subdivisions c, d, e and f...

Section 3 - (9) The court of appeals shall adopt and from time...

Section 4 - k. The appellate divisions of the supreme court shall have...

Section 5 - b. If any appeal is taken to an appellate court...

Section 6 - e. The clerks of the several counties shall be clerks...

Section 7 - b. If the legislature shall create new classes of actions...

Section 8 - e. As may be provided by law, an appellate term...

Section 9 - The court of claims is continued. It shall consist of...

Section 10 - b. The terms of the judges of the county court...

Section 11 - d. The provisions of this section shall in no way...

Section 12 - f. The provisions of this section shall in no way...

Section 13 - d. The provisions of this section shall in no way...

Section 14 - The legislature may at any time provide that outside the...

Section 15 - d. The provisions of this section shall in no way...

Section 16 - i. The legislature may regulate and discontinue the district court...

Section 17 - d. The number of the judges of each of such...

Section 18 - b. The legislature may provide for the manner of trial...

Section 19 - k. The legislature may provide that the verdict or judgment...

Section 20 - c. Qualifications for and restrictions upon the judges of district,...

Section 21 - d. When a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration...

Section 22 - j. If a court on the judiciary shall have been...

Section 23 - c. No judge or justice shall be removed by virtue...

Section 24 - The assembly shall have the power of impeachment by a...

Section 25 - c. The provisions of this section shall also be applicable...

Section 26 - k. While temporarily assigned pursuant to the provisions of this...

Section 27 - The governor may, when in his or her opinion the...

Section 28 - c. The chief judge, after consultation with the administrative board,...

Section 29 - d. Insofar as the expense of the courts is not...

Section 30 - The legislature shall have the same power to alter and...

Section 31 - This article does not apply to the peacemakers courts or...

Section 32 - When any court having jurisdiction over a child shall commit...

Section 33 - Existing provisions of law not inconsistent with this article shall...

Section 34 - f. Judges of courts for towns, villages and cities outside...

Section 35 - n. In the event that an appeal was decided before...

Section 36 - No civil or criminal appeal, action or proceeding pending before...

Section 36-a - The amendments to the provisions of sections two, four, seven,...

Section 36-C - The amendments to the provisions of section twenty-two of article...

Section 37 - This article shall become a part of the constitution on...

Article VII: state finances

Section 1 - Itemized estimates of the financial needs of the legislature, certified...

Section 2 - Annually, on or before the first day of February in...

Section 3 - The governor and the heads of departments shall have the...

Section 4 - Such an appropriation bill shall when passed by both houses...

Section 5 - Neither house of the legislature shall consider any other bill...

Section 6 - No provision shall be embraced in any appropriation bill submitted...

Section 7 - No money shall ever be paid out of the state...

Section 8 - 3. Nothing in this constitution contained shall prevent the legislature...

Section 9 - The state may also contract debts in anticipation of the...

Section 10 - In addition to the above limited power to contract debts,...

Section 11 - The legislature may, at any time after the approval of...

Section 12 - 10. When state obligations are sold at a discount, the...

Section 13 - 8. The provisions of subdivision 3 and subdivisions 7 through...

Section 14 - Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this section the...

Section 15 - After any sinking fund shall equal in amount the debt...

Section 16 - Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the comptroller may...

Section 17 - No law changing the method of determining a norm or...

Section 18 - Proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to law, as authorized by...

Section 19 - The legislature may authorize by law the creation of a...

Article VIII: local finances

Section 1 - Subject to the limitations on indebtedness and taxation applying to...

Section 2 - Notwithstanding the foregoing, all interest need not be paid annually...

Section 2-a - The legislature may provide that any allocation of indebtedness, or...

Section 3 - No municipal or other corporation (other than a county, city,...

Section 4 - Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to restrict...

Section 5 - E. Indebtedness contracted on or after January first, nineteen hundred...

Section 6 - Indebtedness not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of ten...

Section 7 - E. Indebtedness contracted for school purposes, evidenced by bonds, to...

Section 7-a - In determining whether indebtedness for transit purposes may be excluded...

Section 8 - No indebtedness of a county, city, town, village or school...

Section 9 - Whenever the boundaries of any city are the same as...

Section 10 - Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to restrict...

Section 10-a - For the purpose of determining the amount of taxes which...

Section 11 - (b) Whenever any county, city, other than the city of...

Section 12 - It shall be the duty of the legislature, subject to...

Article IX: local governments

Section 1 - (2) After the adoption of an alternative form of county...

Section 2 - (e) The rights and powers of local governments specified in...

Section 3 - (1) "General law." A law which in terms and in...

Article X: corporations

Section 1 - Corporations may be formed under general law; but shall not...

Section 2 - Dues from corporations shall be secured by such individual liability...

Section 3 - The legislature shall, by general law, conform all charters of...

Section 4 - The term corporations as used in this section, and in...

Section 5 - Neither the state nor any political subdivision thereof shall at...

Section 6 - (b) authorize the use of any state canal lands and...

Section 7 - To the extent payment is not otherwise made or provided...

Section 8 - Notwithstanding any provision of this or any other article of...

Article XI: education

Section 1 - The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of...

Section 2 - The corporation created in the year one thousand seven hundred...

Section 3 - Neither the state nor any subdivision thereof, shall use its...

Article XII: defense

Section 1 - The defense and protection of the state and of the...

Article XIII: public officers

Section 1 - Members of the legislature, and all officers, executive and judicial,...

Section 2 - When the duration of any office is not provided by...

Section 3 - The legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in office, and...

Section 4 - The political year and legislative term shall begin on the...

Section 5 - Provision shall be made by law for the removal for...

Section 6 - The legislature may declare the cases in which any office...

Section 7 - Each of the state officers named in this constitution shall,...

Section 8 - All elections of city officers, including supervisors, elected in any...

Section 13 - (c) The city of New York is hereby vested with...

Section 14 - The legislature may regulate and fix the wages or salaries...

Article XIV: conservation

Section 1 - Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions and subject to legislative approval prior...

Section 2 - The legislature may by general laws provide for the use...

Section 3. 1 - 2. As to any other lands of the state, now...

Section 4 - The policy of the state shall be to conserve and...

Section 5 - A violation of any of the provisions of this article...

Article XV: canals

Section 1 - The legislature shall not sell, abandon or otherwise dispose of...

Section 2 - The prohibition of sale, abandonment or other disposition contained in...

Section 3 - All funds that may be derived from any sale or...

Section 4 - The legislature, in determining the state's share of the annual...

Article XVI: article XVI: taxation

Section 1 - Exemptions from taxation may be granted only by general laws....

Section 2 - Nothing in this constitution shall be deemed to prevent the...

Section 3 - Moneys, credits, securities and other intangible personal property within the...

Section 4 - Where the state has power to tax corporations incorporated under...

Section 5 - All salaries, wages and other compensation, except pensions, paid to...

Section 6 - Notwithstanding any provision of this or any other article of...

Article XVII: social welfare

Section 1 - The aid, care and support of the needy are public...

Section 2 - The state board of social welfare shall be continued. It...

Section 3 - The protection and promotion of the health of the inhabitants...

Section 4 - The care and treatment of persons suffering from mental disorder...

Section 5 - The legislature may provide for the maintenance and support of...

Section 6 - Visitation and inspection as herein authorized, shall not be exclusive...

Section 7 - Notwithstanding any other provision of this constitution, the legislature may...

Article XVIII: housing

Section 1 - Subject to the provisions of this article, the legislature may...

Section 2 - As used in this article, the term "public corporation" shall...

Section 3 - Any law authorizing the making of contracts for capital or...

Section 4 - The liability of a city, town or village on account...

Section 5 - Any city, town or village shall be liable for the...

Section 6 - No loan, or subsidy shall be made by the state...

Section 7 - The liability arising from any guarantee of the principal of...

Section 8 - Any agency of the state, or any city, town, village,...

Section 9 - Subject to any limitation imposed by the legislature, the state,...

Section 10 - The legislature is empowered to make all laws which it...

Article XIX: amendments to constitution

Section 1 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed...

Section 2 - At the general election to be held in the year...

Section 3 - Any amendment proposed by a constitutional convention relating to the...

Article XX: when to take effect -