Provisions
IV.1 of 1939 • Executive power; election and terms of governor and lieutenant-governor.
APPROVED
The Text
The executive power shall be vested in the governor, who shall hold his office for four years; the lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the same time, and for the same term. The governor and lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the general election held in the year nineteen hundred thirty-eight, and each fourth year thereafter. The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for governor and lieutenant-governor shall be elected.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article IV: Executive
• Has 70 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:
◦ 1938-IV.1
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