Michigan Constitution

Article V. Executive Branch

Executive power

Principal departments

Single heads of departments; appointment, term

Commissions or agencies for less than 2 years

Examining or licensing board members, qualifications

Advice and consent to appointments

Vacancies in office; filling, senatorial disapproval of appointees

Principal departments, supervision of governor; information from state officers

Principal departments, location

Removal or suspension of officers; grounds, report

Provisional appointments to fill vacancies due to suspension

Military powers

Elections to fill vacancies in legislature

Reprieves, commutations and pardons

Extra sessions of legislature

Legislature other than at seat of government

Messages and recommendations to legislature

Budget; general and deficiency appropriation bills

Disapproval of items in appropriation bills

Reductions in expenditures

State elective executive officers; term, election

Governor and lieutenant governor, qualifications

State elective executive officers, compensation

Executive residence

Lieutenant governor; president of senate, tie vote, duties

Succession to governorship

Salary of successor

State transportation commission; establishment; purpose; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; director of state transportation department

Civil rights commission; members, term, duties, appropriation

Limitations on terms of executive officers