SECTION 1. The executive power of the State shall be vested in a Governor, whose term of
office shall commence on the second Wednesday of January next ensuing his election, and
continue for four years, and until his successor shall have qualified; but the Governor chosen at
the first election under this Constitution shall not enter upon the discharge of the duties of the
office until the expiration of the term for which the present incumbent was elected; unless the
said office shall become vacant by death, resignation, removal from the State, or other
disqualification of the said incumbent.
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[Act of 1947 CHAPTER 109. Ratified 1948 (Senate Bill 143)]
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland (three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two Houses concurring), That the following be and the same is hereby
proposed
as an amendment to Section 1 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, title
"Executive
Department," the same, if adopted by the legally qualified voters of the State, as herein provided,
to
become Section 1 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Maryland.
Section 1. The executive power of the State shall be vested in a Governor, whose term of office
shall
commence on the second Wednesday of January next ensuing his election, and continue for four
years,
and until his successor shall have qualified; and a person who has served two consecutive
popular
elective terms of office as Governor shall be ineligible to succeed himself as Governor for the
term
immediately following the second of said two consecutive popular elective terms.
[Approved March 15,1947.]
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