Iowa Constitution
Article IV - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
§ 19 Succession to office of governor and lieutenant governor.
If there be a vacancy in the office of the governor
and the lieutenant governor shall by reason of death, impeachment,
resignation, removal from office, or other disability become incapable
of performing the duties pertaining to the office of governor, the
president of the senate shall act as governor until the vacancy is
filled or the disability removed; and if the president of the senate,
for any of the above causes, shall be incapable of performing the duties
pertaining to the office of governor the same shall devolve upon the
speaker of the house of representatives; and if the speaker of the house
of representatives, for any of the above causes, shall be incapable of
performing the duties of the office of governor, the justices of the
supreme court shall convene the general assembly by proclamation and the
general assembly shall organize by the election of a president by the
senate and a speaker by the house of representatives. The general
assembly shall thereupon immediately proceed to the election of a
governor and lieutenant governor in joint convention.
Repealed and rewritten by Amendment 42 (1988)
1988 repeal and rewrite was effective beginning with the second Monday in January 1991 Referred to in Iowa Code §7.14
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