AMENDMENT 6 | EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT AND OFFICERS (CONST., ART. 6, § 1, AMENDED AND SECTIONS ADDED)
§1. Executive department.
§2. Executive power vested in Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
The executivepowershall be vested in a Governor, who shallhold office for two years; a Lieutenant Governor shall be chosen at the same time and for the same term. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor elected next preceding the time when this section shall take effect shallhold office until and including the second Monday of September, and their successors shall be chosen at the general election in that year.
§3. Election of Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be elected at the times and places of choosing members of the Assembly. The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be elected, but in case two or more shall have an equal and the highest number of votes for Governor, or for Lieutenant Governor, the two houses of the Legislature at its next annual session shall forthwith, by joint ballot, choose one of the said persons so having an equal and the highest number of votes for Governor or Lieutenant Governor.
§4. Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor.
In case of the impeachment of the Governor, or his or her removal from office, death, inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, or resignation, the powers and duties of the office, shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease. When the Governor shall, with the consent of the Legislature, be out of the State, in time of war, at the head of a military force thereof, he or she shall continue commander-in-chief of all the military force of the State.
[As amended by Const. Amend. 96.]
§5. Qualifications and duties of Lieutenant Governor — Succession to the governorship.
The Lieutenant Governor shall possess the same qualifications of eligibility for the office as the Governor. He shall be President of the Senate, but shall have only a casting vote therein in case of a tie vote. If during a vacancy of the office of Governor, the Lieutenant Governor shall be impeached, displaced, resign, die, or become incapable of performing the duties of his office or be absent from the State, the President of the Senate shall act as Governor until the vacancy be filled or the disability shall cease; and if the President of the Senate for any of the above causesshall become incapable of performing the duties pertaining to the office of Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly shall act as Governor until the vacancy be filled or the disability shall cease.
§6. [Repealed.]
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