2006 New York Code - Amendments to constitution; how proposed, voted upon and ratified; failure of attorney-general to render opinion not to affect validity.

 
                                 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 render an opinion in writing to the
  senate and assembly as to the effect of  such  amendment  or  amendments
  upon  other provisions of the constitution. Upon receiving such opinion,
  if the amendment or amendments as proposed or as amended shall be agreed
  to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses,  such
  proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, and
  the  ayes  and  noes  taken  thereon,  and  referred to the next regular
  legislative session convening after the succeeding general  election  of
  members  of  the  assembly,  and  shall  be  published  for three months
  previous to the time of making such choice; and if in  such  legislative
  session,  such  proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a
  majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be  the
  duty  of the legislature to submit each proposed amendment or amendments
  to the people for approval in such manner  and  at  such  times  as  the
  legislature  shall prescribe; and if the people shall approve and ratify
  such amendment or amendments  by  a  majority  of  the  electors  voting
  thereon,  such  amendment  or  amendments  shall  become  a  part of the
  constitution on the first day  of  January  next  after  such  approval.
  Neither  the  failure  of  the  attorney-general  to  render  an opinion
  concerning such a proposed amendment nor his or her  failure  to  do  so
  timely   shall  affect  th*  validity  of  such  proposed  amendment  or
  legislative action thereon.
    *So in original. ("th" should be "the".)