N.Y. Civil Rights Law § 3: Levying taxes and charges

§ 3. Levying taxes and charges. No tax, duty, aid or imposition

whatsoever, except such as may be laid by a law of the United States,

can be taken or levied within this state, without the grant and assent

of the people of this state, by their representatives in senate and

assembly; and no citizen of this state can be by any means compelled to

contribute to any gift, loan, tax, or other like charge, not laid or

imposed by a law of the United States, or by the legislature of this

state.