There is a newer version of the New York Consolidated Laws
2006 New York Code - Qualifications of governor and lieutenant-governor.
§ 2. No person shall be eligible to the office of governor or lieutenant-governor, except a citizen of the United States, of the age of not less than thirty years, and who shall have been five years next preceding the election a resident of this state.
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