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Opinion No. 15-1507

Collection Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters
Date 04/27/1915
File Number 1915 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 15-1507

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Opinion No. 15-1507

April 27, 1915

BY: FRANK W. CLANCY, Attorney General

TO: Mrs. Edgar Hepp and Grace G. Goebel, Deming, N. Mex.

Eligibility of state and county officers to re-election in 1916.

OPINION

{*91} I have just received your letter of yesterday asking my opinion as to the re-election of state and county officials, and whether I {*92} understand that the present incumbents can qualify for re-election the ensuing term.

I have no doubt that the present incumbents of both state and county offices are eligible to re-election in 1916. The amendments to the Constitution adopted last November, entirely displace the previous provisions that such officers, after serving one full term of four years, should be ineligible to succeed themselves and the new amendments provide that these officers shall be elected for the term of two years beginning on the first of January next after their election and after having served two consecutive terms, shall be ineligible to hold any state or county office respectively for two years thereafter.

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