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Provisions

IV.2 of 1939 • Qualifications of governor and lieutenant-governor.

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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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