Provisions
IV.2 of 1875 • Qualifications of governor and lieutenant governor.
APPROVED
The Text
No person shall be eligible to the oflice 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 1875
• In Article IV:
• Has 44 words
• Was proposed by the Commission / Legislature
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1874
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1847-IV.2
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