Provisions
IV.2 of 1895 • Requisite qualifications of Governor.
APPROVED
The Text
No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor, except a citizen of the United States, of the age of not less than thirty years, and who shall have been, five years next preceding his election, a resident of this State.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1895
• In Article IV: The Executive
• Has 45 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1894
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1875-IV.2
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