New York Constitution

Article VII, § 10 — State debts on account of invasion, insurrection, war and forest fires

New York Const. art. VII, § 10

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N.Y. Const. art. VII, § 10.

Full Text

In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the state may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in war, or to suppress forest fires; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied for the purpose for which it was raised, or to repay such debts, and to no other purpose whatever.

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History

(Formerly §3. Renumbered by Constitutional Convention of 1938 and approved by vote of the people November 8, 1938.)

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