SEC. 2. No person shall be eligible as governor or lieutenant-governor, unless he shall have
attained the age of thirty years, shall have been a citizen of the United States five years. and shall
have been a resident of this State for two years next before the election; nor shall the person
elected to either of these two offices be eligible to the same office more than four years in any
term of eight years, unless the office shall have been cast upon him as lieutenant-governor or
president of the senate.
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Sec. 2. Article III of the Constitution of North Carolina is hereby amended by rewriting Section
2 thereof to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. Qualifications of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. No person shall be eligible for
election to the office of Governor or Lieutenant-Governor, unless he shall have attained the age
of 30 years, shall have been a citizen of the United State five years, and shall have been a resident
of this State for two years next before the election; nor shall a person elected to either of these
two offices be eligible for election for the next succeeding term of the same office."
[Effective November 6, 1962.]
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