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Art. 4 Sec. 13
before the next election at which the vacancy is to be filled, if the appointment is
made on or after November 1 preceding the general election for the succeeding
term of the office of Governor and the Governor is not elected at that election
to the succeeding term.
(i) For purposes of this section, the expiration of a term of office or the
creation of a new office constitutes a vacancy. (Amended Nov. 3, 1987, and
Nov. 6, 1990.)
(j) (Added Nov. 6, 1990; expired Jan. 1, 1991.)
" Sec. 13. RESIDENCE OF GOVERNOR. During the session of the
Legislature the Governor shall reside where its sessions are held, and at all other
times at the seat of Government, except when by act of the Legislature, he may
5 be required or authorized to reside elsewhere.
Sec. 14. APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF BILLS; RETURN AND
RECONSIDERATION; FAILURE TO RETURN; DISAPPROVAL OF
" ITEMS OF APPROPRIATION. Every bill which shall have passed both
houses of the Legislature shall be presented to the Governor for his approval.
If he approve he shall sign it; but if he disapprove it, he shall return it, with his
" objections, to the House in which it originated, which House shall enter the
objections at large upon its journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such
reconsideration, two-thirds of the members present agree to pass the bill, it shall
be sent, with the objections, to the other House, by which likewise it shall be
reconsidered; and, if approved by two-thirds of the members of that House, it
5 shall become a law; but in such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined
by yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for and against the bill
shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be
returned by the Governor with his objections within ten days (Sundays excepted)
after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as
if he had signed it, 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 and give notice thereof by public proclamation
* within twenty days after such adjournment. If any bill presented to the Governor
contains several items of appropriation he may object to one or more of such
" items, and approve the other portion of the bill. In such case he shall append to
the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects,
and no item so objected to shall take effect. If the Legislature be in session, he
" shall transmit to the House in which the bill originated a copy of such statement
and the items objected to shall be separately considered. If, on reconsideration,
one or more of such items be approved by two-thirds of the members present of
each House, the same shall be part of the law, notwithstanding the objections
of the Governor. If any such bill, containing several items of appropriation,
not having been presented to the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted) prior
to adjournment, be in the hands of the Governor at the time of adjournment, he
shall have twenty days from such adjournment within which to file objections
to any items thereof and make proclamation of the same, and such item or items
shall not take effect.
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