New York Constitution
Article III - Legislature
- Section 1 - Legislative power
- Section 2 - Number and terms of senators and assemblymen
- Section 3 - Senate districts
- Section 4 - Readjustments and reapportionments; when federal census to control
- Section 5 - Apportionment of assemblymen; creation of assembly districts
- Section 5-a - Definition of inhabitants
- Section 6 - Compensation, allowances and traveling expenses of members
- Section 7 - Qualifications of members; prohibitions on certain civil appointments; acceptance to vacate seat
- Section 8 - Time of elections of members
- Section 9 - Powers of each house
- Section 10 - Journals; open sessions; adjournments
- Section 11 - Members not to be questioned for speeches
- Section 12 - Bills may originate in either house; may be amended by the other
- Section 13 - Enacting clause of bills; no law to be enacted except by bill
- Section 14 - Manner of passing bills; message of necessity for immediate vote
- Section 15 - Private or local bills to embrace only one subject, expressed in title
- Section 16 - Existing law not to be made applicable by reference
- Section 17 - Cases in which private or local bills shall not be passed
- Section 18 - Extraordinary sessions of the legislature; power to convene on legislative initiative
- Section 19 - Private claims not to be audited by legislature; claims barred by lapse of time
- Section 20 - Two-thirds bills
- Section 21 - Certain sections not to apply to bills recommended by certain commissioners or public agencies
- Section 22 - Tax laws to state tax and object distinctly; definition of income for income tax purposes by reference to federal laws authorized
- Section 23 - When yeas and nays necessary; three-fifths to constitute quorum
- Section 24 - Prison labor; contract system abolished
- Section 25 - Emergency governmental operations; legislature to provide for
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