SOUTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE IV
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Art. IV §0 | LEGISLATURE'S NOTE ON ARTICLE IV
Art. IV §1 | CHIEF MAGISTRATE
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Art. IV §2 | QUALIFICATIONS OF GOVERNOR
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Art. IV §3 | ELECTION OF GOVERNOR; GOVERNOR MAY NOT SERVE MORE THAN TWO SUCCESSIVE TERMS
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Art. IV §4 | TERM OF GOVERNOR
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Art. IV §5 | PERSON HAVING HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES TO BE GOVERNOR; TIE VOTE
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Art. IV §6 | SUCCESSION WHEN GOVERNOR ELECT DIES, DECLINES TO SERVE, OR FAILS TO TAKE OATH
Art. IV §7 | SUCCESSION WHEN NEITHER GOVERNOR ELECT NOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ELECT QUALIFIES OR IS ABLE TO SERVE
Art. IV §8 | ELECTION, QUALIFICATIONS, AND TERM OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
(B) Beginning with the General Election of 2018, a person seeking the office of Governor in any manner that a person’s name may appear on the ballot as a candidate for that office, and before that person’s name is certified to appear on the ballot for the general election, shall select a qualified elector to serve as Lieutenant Governor.
(C) All candidates for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor must be elected jointly in a manner prescribed by law so that each voter casts a single vote to elect a candidate for the office of Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
(D) The General Assembly shall provide by law the manner in which a candidate for Lieutenant Governor is selected.
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2014 Act No. 214, Section 1.A, provides as follows:
“SECTION 1.A. The amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, prepared under the terms of Joint Resolution 289 of 2012, having been submitted to the qualified electors at the General Election of 2012 as prescribed in Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and a favorable vote having been received on the amendment, is ratified and declared to be a part of the Constitution so that Section 8 of Article IV is amended to read: [text of section].”
Effect of Amendment
2014 Act No. 214, Section 1.A, added subsection designator (A); in subsection (A), substituted “must be chosen” for “shall be chosen”; and added subsections (B), (C), and (D).
Art. IV §9 | RESERVED BY 2014 ACT NO 214, SECTION 1C, EFF NOVEMBER 6, 2018
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2014 Act No. 214, Section 1.C, provides as follows:
“C. The amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, prepared under the terms of Joint Resolution 289 of 2012, having been submitted to the qualified electors at the General Election of 2012 as prescribed in Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and a favorable vote having been received on the amendment, is ratified and declared to be a part of the Constitution so that Section 9, Article IV is amended to read: [reserved section].”
Art. IV §10 | RESERVED BY 2014 ACT NO 214, SECTION 1D, NOVEMBER 6, 2018
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2014 Act No. 214, Section 1.D, provides as follows:
“D. The amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, prepared under the terms of Joint Resolution 289 of 2012, having been submitted to the qualified electors at the General Election of 2012 as prescribed in Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and a favorable vote having been received on the amendment, is ratified and declared to be a part of the Constitution so that Section 10, Article IV is amended to read: [reserved section]”
Art. IV §11 | DEATH, RESIGNATION, REMOVAL OF GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
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2014 Act No. 214, Section 1.E, provides as follows:
“E. The amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, prepared under the terms of Joint Resolution 289 of 2012, having been submitted to the qualified electors at the General Election of 2012 as prescribed in Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and a favorable vote having been received on the amendment, is ratified and declared to be a part of the Constitution so that Section 11, Article IV is amended to read: [text of section].”
Effect of Amendment
2014 Act No. 214, Section 1.E, added the last sentence, relating to removal of the Lieutenant Governor.Art. IV §12 | DISABILITY OF GOVERNOR
(2) Whenever a majority of the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Comptroller General, and the State Treasurer, or of such other body as the General Assembly may provide, transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a written declaration that the Governor is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Lieutenant Governor shall forthwith assume the powers and duties of the office as acting Governor.
Thereafter, if the Governor transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no such inability exists, he shall forthwith resume the powers and duties of his office unless a majority of the above members or of such other body, whichever the case may be, transmits within four days to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the Governor is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon, the General Assembly shall forthwith consider and decide the issue, and if not in session, it shall assemble within forty eight hours for the sole purpose of deciding such issue. If the General Assembly, within twenty one days, excluding Sundays, after the first day it meets to decide the issue, determines by two thirds vote of each House that the Governor is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Lieutenant Governor shall continue to discharge the same as acting Governor; otherwise, the Governor shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
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“F. The amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, prepared under the terms of Joint Resolution 289 of 2012, having been submitted to the qualified electors at the General Election of 2012 as prescribed in Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and a favorable vote having been received on the amendment, is ratified and declared to be a part of the Constitution so that Section 12, Article IV is amended to read: [text of section].”
Effect of Amendment
2014 Act No. 214, Section 1.F, substituted “President of the Senate” for “President Pro Tempore of the Senate” throughout; in subsection (2), added a comma after “Comptroller General”; and in the last paragraph, added a comma following “that no such inability exists” and “if not in session”.Art. IV §13 | COMMANDER IN CHIEF
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Art. IV §14 | POWERS OF GOVERNOR AS TO CLEMENCY
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Art. IV §15 | FAITHFUL EXECUTION OF LAWS
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Art. IV §16 | COMPENSATION OF GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
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Art. IV §17 | DUTY OF STATE OFFICERS TO GIVE INFORMATION TO GOVERNOR
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Art. IV §18 | DUTY OF GOVERNOR TO GIVE INFORMATION TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Art. IV §19 | EXTRA SESSIONS; GOVERNOR MAY ADJOURN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Art. IV §20 | RESIDENCE OF GOVERNOR
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Art. IV §21 | BILL OR JOINT RESOLUTION MUST BE SIGNED OR VETOED BY GOVERNOR
Bills appropriating money out of the Treasury shall specify the objects and purposes for which the same are made, and appropriate to them respectively their several amounts in distinct items and sections. If the Governor shall not approve any one or more of the items or sections contained in any bill appropriating money, but shall approve of the residue thereof, it shall become a law as to the residue in like manner as if he had signed it. The Governor shall then return the bill with his objections to the items or sections of the same not approved by him to the house in which the bill originated, which house shall enter the objections at large upon its Journal and proceed to reconsider so much of the bill as is not approved by the Governor. The same proceedings shall be had in both houses in reconsidering the same as is provided in case of an entire bill returned by the Governor with his objections; and if any item or section of the bill not approved by the Governor shall be passed by two thirds of each house of the General Assembly, it shall become a part of the law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor.
If a bill or joint resolution shall not be returned by the Governor within five days after it shall have been presented to him, Sundays excepted, it shall have the same force and effect as if he had signed it, unless the General Assembly, by adjournment, prevents return, in which case it shall have such force and effect unless returned within two days after the next meeting.
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