WYOMING CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE IV
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

Art. IV §1 | EXECUTIVE POWER VESTED IN GOVERNOR; TERM OF GOVERNOR

The executive power shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for the term of four (4) years and until his successor is elected and duly qualified.

Art. IV §2 | QUALIFICATIONS OF GOVERNOR

No person shall be eligible to the office of governor unless he be a citizen of the United States and a qualified elector of the state, who has attained the age of thirty years, and who has resided 5 years next preceding the election within the state or territory, nor shall he be eligible to any other office during the term for which he was elected.

Art. IV §3 | ELECTION OF GOVERNOR

The governor shall be elected by the qualified electors of the state at the time and place of choosing members of the legislature. The person having the highest number of votes for governor shall be declared elected, but if two or more shall have an equal and highest number of votes for governor, the two houses of the legislature at its next regular session shall forthwith, by joint ballot, choose one of such persons for said office. The returns of the election for governor shall be made in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.

Art. IV §4 | POWERS AND DUTIES OF GOVERNOR GENERALLY

The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military forces of the state, except when they are called into the service of the United States, and may call out the same to execute the laws, suppress insurrection and repel invasion. He shall have power to convene the legislature on extraordinary occasions. He shall at the commencement of each session communicate to the legislature by message, information of the condition of the state, and recommend such measures as he shall deem expedient. He shall transact all necessary business with the officers of the government, civil and military. He shall expedite all such measures as may be resolved upon by the legislature and shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

Art. IV §5 | PARDONING POWER OF GOVERNOR

The governor shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment; but the legislature may by law regulate the manner in which the remission of fines, pardons, commutations and reprieves may be applied for. Upon conviction for treason he shall have power to suspend the execution of sentence until the case is reported to the legislature at its next regular session, when the legislature shall either pardon, or commute the sentence, direct the execution of the sentence or grant further reprieve. He shall communicate to the legislature at each regular session each case of remission of fine, reprieve, commutation or pardon granted by him, stating the name of the convict, the crime for which he was convicted, the sentence and its date, and the date of the remission, commutation, pardon or reprieve with his reasons for granting the same.

Art. IV §6 | ACTING GOVERNOR

If the governor be impeached, displaced, resign or die, or from mental or physical disease or otherwise become incapable of performing the duties of his office or be absent from the state, the secretary of state shall act as governor until the vacancy is filled or the disability removed.

Art. IV §7 | WHEN GOVERNOR MAY FILL VACANCIES IN OFFICE

When any office from any cause becomes vacant, and no mode is provided by the constitution or law for filling such vacancy, the governor shall have the power to fill the same by appointment.

Art. IV §8 | APPROVAL OR VETO OF LEGISLATION BY GOVERNOR; PASSAGE OVER VETO

Every bill which has passed the legislature shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor. If he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it originated, which shall enter the objections at large upon the journal and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the members elected agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if it be approved by two-thirds of the members elected, it shall become a law; but in all such cases the vote of both houses shall be determined by the yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for and against the bill shall be entered upon the journal of each house respectively. If any bill is not returned by the governor within three days (Sundays excepted) after its presentation to him, the same shall be a law, unless the legislature by its adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall be a law, unless he shall file the same with his objections in the office of the secretary of state within fifteen days after such adjournment.

Art. IV §9 | VETO OF ITEMS OF APPROPRIATIONS

The governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or items or part or parts of any bill making appropriations of money or property embracing distinct items, and the part or parts of the bill approved shall be the law, and the item or items and part or parts disapproved shall be void unless enacted in the following manner: If the legislature be in session he shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of the item or items or part or parts thereof disapproved, together with his objections thereto, and the items or parts objected to shall be separately reconsidered, and each item or part shall then take the same course as is prescribed for the passage of bills over the executive veto.

Art. IV §10 | BRIBERY OR COERCION OF OR BY GOVERNOR

Any governor of this state who asks, receives or agrees to receive any bribe upon any understanding that his official opinion, judgment or action shall be influenced thereby, or who gives or offers, or promises his official influence in consideration that any member of the legislature shall give his official vote or influence on any particular side of any question or matter upon which he is required to act in his official capacity, or who menaces any member by the threatened use of his veto power, or who offers or promises any member that he, the governor, will appoint any particular person or persons to any office created or thereafter to be created, in consideration that any member shall give his official vote or influence on any matter pending or thereafter to be introduced into either house of said legislature; or who threatens any member that he, the governor, will remove any person or persons from office or position with intent in any manner to influence the action of said members, shall be punished in the manner now or that may hereafter be provided by law, and upon conviction thereof shall forfeit all right to hold or exercise any office of trust or honor in this state.

Art. IV §11 | STATE OFFICERS; ELECTION; QUALIFICATIONS; TERMS

There shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the state at the times and places of choosing members of the legislature, a secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction, who shall have attained the age of twenty-five (25) years respectively, shall be citizens of the United States, and shall have the qualifications of state electors. They shall severally hold their offices at the seat of government, for the term of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and duly qualified. The legislature may provide for such other state officers as are deemed necessary.

Art. IV §12 | STATE OFFICERS; POWERS AND DUTIES

The powers and duties of the secretary of state, of state auditor, treasurer and superintendent of public instruction shall be as prescribed by law.

Art. IV §13 | SALARIES OF GOVERNOR AND OTHER ELECTIVE STATE OFFICERS

Until otherwise provided by law, the governor shall receive an annual salary of two thousand and five hundred dollars, the secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer and superintendent of public instruction shall each receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, and the salaries of any of the said officers shall not be increased or diminished during the period for which they were elected, and all fees and profits arising from any of the said offices shall be covered into the state treasury.

Art. IV §14 | EXAMINATION OF ACCOUNTS

The legislature shall provide by law for examination of the accounts of state treasurer, supreme court clerks, district court clerks, and all county treasurers, and treasurers of such other public institutions as the legislature may prescribe.

Art. IV §15 | GREAT SEAL OF STATE

There shall be a seal of state which shall be called the "Great Seal of the State of Wyoming"; it shall be kept by the secretary of state and used by him officially as directed by law.

The seal of the Territory of Wyoming as now used shall be the seal of the state until otherwise provided by law.

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WYOMING CONSTITUTIONARTICLE IVEXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

Art. IV §1 | EXECUTIVE POWER VESTED IN GOVERNOR; TERM OF GOVERNOR

Art. IV §2 | QUALIFICATIONS OF GOVERNOR

Art. IV §3 | ELECTION OF GOVERNOR

Art. IV §4 | POWERS AND DUTIES OF GOVERNOR GENERALLY

Art. IV §5 | PARDONING POWER OF GOVERNOR

Art. IV §6 | ACTING GOVERNOR

Art. IV §7 | WHEN GOVERNOR MAY FILL VACANCIES IN OFFICE

Art. IV §8 | APPROVAL OR VETO OF LEGISLATION BY GOVERNOR; PASSAGE OVER VETO

Art. IV §9 | VETO OF ITEMS OF APPROPRIATIONS

Art. IV §10 | BRIBERY OR COERCION OF OR BY GOVERNOR

Art. IV §11 | STATE OFFICERS; ELECTION; QUALIFICATIONS; TERMS

Art. IV §12 | STATE OFFICERS; POWERS AND DUTIES

Art. IV §13 | SALARIES OF GOVERNOR AND OTHER ELECTIVE STATE OFFICERS

Art. IV §14 | EXAMINATION OF ACCOUNTS

Art. IV §15 | GREAT SEAL OF STATE

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