798'/'Maryland Manual
ARTICLE 11.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
SECTION 1." The executive power of the
State shall be vested in a Governor, whose term
of office shall commence on the third Wednesday
of January next ensuing his election, and continue
for four years, and until his successor shall have
qualified; and a person who has served two con-
secutive popular elective terms of office as Gover-
nor shall be ineligible to succeed himself as Gov-
ernor for the term immediately following the
second of said two consecutive popular elective
terms.
SEC. IA." There shall be a Lieutenant Gov-
ernor, who shall have only the duties delegated
to him by the Governor and shall have such
compensation as the General Assembly shall
provide by law, except that beginning in the
year 1978 the salary of the Lieutenant Gover-
nor shall be as provided under Section 21 A ot
this Article. No person who is ineligible under
this Constitution to be elected Governor shall
be eligible to hold the office of Lieutenant Gov-
ernor.
SEC. IB.^ Each candidate who shall seek a
nomination for Governor, under any method pro-
vided by law for such nomination, including pri-
mary elections, shall at the time of filing for said
office designate a candidate for Lieutenant Gover-
nor, and the names of the said candidate for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be list-
ed on the primary election ballot, or otherwise
considered for nomination jointly with each oth-
er. No candidate for Governor may designate a
candidate for Lieutenant Governor to contest for
the said offices jointly with him without the con-
sent of the said candidate for Lieutenant Gover-
nor, and no candidate for Lieutenant Governor
may designate a candidate for Governor, to con-
test jointly for said offices with him without the
consent of the said candidate for Governor, said
consent to be in writing on a form provided for
such purpose and filed at the time the said candi-
dates shall file their certificates of candidacy, or
other documents by which they seek nomination.
" Thus amended by Chapter 576, Acts of 1970, ratified No-
vember 3,1970.
" Thus amended by Chapter 543, Acts of 1976, ratified No-
vember 2,1976.
" Added by Chapter 532, Acts of 1970, ratified November 3,
1970.

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In any election, including a primary election, can-
didates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor
shall be listed jointly on the ballot, and a vote
cast tor the candidate lor Governor shall also be
cast for Lieutenant Governor jointly listed on the
ballot with him, and the election of Governor, or
the nomination of a candidate for Governor, also
shall constitute the election for the same term, or
the nomination, of the Lieutenant Governor who
was listed on the ballot or was being considered
jointly with him.
SEC. 2" An election for Governor and Lieu-
tenant Governor, under this Constitution, shall
be held on the Tuesday next after the first Mon-
day of November, in the year nineteen hundred
and seventy-four, and on the same day and
month in every fourth year thereafter, at the
places of voting for Delegates to the General As-
sembly; and every person qualified to vote for
Delegates, shall be qualified and entitled to vote
for Governor and Lieutenant Governor; the elec-
tion to be held in the same manner as the election
of Delegates, and the returns thereof, under seal,
to be addressed to the Speaker of the House ot
Delegates, and enclosed and transmitted to the
Secretary of State, and delivered to said Speaker,
at the commencement of the session of the Gener-
al Assembly, next ensuing said election.
SEC. 3.^ The Speaker of the House of
Delegates shall then open the said Returns, in
the presence of both Houses; and the persons
having the highest number of votes for these
offices, and being Constitutionally eligible, shall
be the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and
shall qualify, in the manner herein prescribed,
on the third Wednesday of January next ensuing
his election, or as soon thereafter as may be
practicable.
SEC. 4." If two or more sets of persons shall
have the highest and an equal number of votes
for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, one set
of them shall be chosen Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, by the Senate and House of Delegates;
and all questions in relation to the eligibility of
Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and to the
Returns of said election, and to the number and
legality of votes therein given, shall be
" Thus amended by Chapter 532, Acts of 1970, ratified No-
vember 3,1970.
" Thus amended by Chapter 532, Acts of 1970, and by Chap-
ter 576, Acts of 1970, .ratified November 3, 1970.
" Thus amended by Chapter 532, Acts of 1970, ratified No-
vember 3,1970.