Provisions
IV.2 of 1939 • Qualifications of governor and lieutenant-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 the election a resident of this state.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article IV: Executive
• Has 44 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1895-IV.2
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