STATE OF NEW YORK
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5257
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 18, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the appointment
of a lieutenant-governor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 43 of the public officers law, as renumbered by
2 chapter 649 of the laws of 1922, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 43. Filling other vacancies. 1. If a vacancy shall occur, otherwise
4 than by expiration of term, with no provision of law for filling the
5 same, if the office be elective, the governor shall appoint a person to
6 execute the duties thereof until the vacancy shall be filled by an
7 election. But if the term of such officer shall expire with the calendar
8 year in which the appointment shall be made, or if the office be appoin-
9 tive, the appointee shall hold for the residue of the term.
10 2. In the case of a vacancy in the office of the lieutenant-governor,
11 the governor shall nominate a lieutenant-governor who shall take office
12 upon confirmation by separate majority votes in each house of the state
13 legislature.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03935-01-9
