§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[41].
Qualifications of governor and lieutenant-governor
N.Y. Const. art. IV, § 2, under EXECUTIVE.
N.Y. Const. art. IV, § 2
Qualifications of governor and lieutenant-governor