Sentences with phrase «governor under the state constitution»

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I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three - day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas.

«The PDP holds that the governor and the APC are jittery and unpopular of going into the grass roots elections in the state, thus the decisions to control the councils by nomenclature of executive secretaries and sole administrators, which are alien and offensive to the provisions of our Constitution, which under section 7 guarantees only democratically elected local government council administrations.»

I'm under the impression that state constitutions detail how votes are made for house reps, senators, and governors.

It has also been reported that Cuomo threatened to remove sheriffs from office under a rarely - used power granted to the Governor by the State constitution.

Under the New York State Constitution, bills must «age» three days before they can be voted on, unless the governor calls for a message of necessity to bypass the aging process.

Under the state's constitution, the president pro tempore of the state senate, Dean Skelos, a Republican, is next in the line of succession for the Governor's office.

The governor concedes the idea is «controversial», though, because under the state's constitution, the Senate and Assembly are technically part time jobs, paying just under $ 80,000 a year.

Both houses of the legislature voted twice to approve the amendment, as required under the state's constitution, and Governor Cuomo signed the bill, at the time calling it «historic».

The state Constitution «already provides under what circumstances the lieutenant governor may cast a vote, and the Senate is bound by those provisions, regardless of what internal operating rules it passes,» the goo - goos wrote.

Under the state constitution, should Mr. Spitzer resign, Mr. Paterson, the lieutenant governor would serve the remainder of the Governorgovernor would serve the remainder of the GovernorGovernor's term.

Bellone said that if Spota does not step down, he will call on Governor Andrew Cuomo to exercise his authority under the state constitution to remove him from office.

The attorney general said that Cuomo has the authority under the state's constitution to give his office the power to to supersede local district attorneys and investigate any crime the governor sees fit.

Mr. Stringer's duties and powers are a matter of the City Charter, which Mr. Cuomo can not alter, but the governor emphasized that housing the homeless is a responsibility of the state under its constitution.

(Syracuse) Howie Hawkins said today that if he was Governor he would use his power under Art. 4, Sec. 3 of the State Constitution to call the legislature into extraordinary session to ensure that they complete work on key issues before taking their six month paid vacation.

Under the state constitution, the Democratic governor had until Wednesday to take action on the $ 41.3 billion, two - year spending plan.

Attorneys for the legislative leaders filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court, saying the commission was overstepping its bounds, and that the governor can't, under the state's constitution, investigate the legislature.

Bennett Liebman, government lawyer - in - residence at Albany Law School and former deputy secretary for gaming and racing in the Cuomo administration, told The Alt that while the governor has the power under the state constitution to remove a district attorney from office through a quasi-judicial proceeding, it is «extraordinarily unlikely» that he will do so in this case.

In a letter Thursday to Schwarzenegger, Steinberg noted that under the state constitution, the Legislature is prohibited from sending to the governor any bill that appropriates funds except for emergency bills that have been recommended by the governor.Officials from the governor's Department of Finance have said that the federal school jobs money could not be released without a budget, but it is unclear if the administration still holds that position.

The first governor of New Jersey to be elected under the revised state Constitution was born here.