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Section VI-15: Qualifications - President of Senate - Impeachment, etc., during vacancy in Governor's office.

  The Lieutenant Governor shall possess the same qualifications
of eligibility for office as the Governor.  He shall be president
of the Senate, but shall have only a casting vote therein, and
also in joint vote of both houses.  If, during a vacancy of the
office of Governor, the Lieutenant Governor shall be impeached,
displaced, resign, die or be absent from the State, or become
incapable of performing the duties of the office, the president,
pro tempore, of the Senate, shall act as Governor until the
vacancy be filled or the disability shall cease; and if the
president, pro tempore, of the Senate, for any of the above
enumerated causes, shall become incapable of performing the
duties pertaining to the office of Governor, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives shall act as Governor until the vacancy
be filled or the disability shall cease. Further provisions for
succession to the office of Governor shall be prescribed by law.

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