Rhode Island Constitution|Section 14.

                                                

Section 14. Veto power of governor -- Veto overrides by
general assembly -- Acts effective without action by governor. -- Every
bill, resolution, or vote (except such as relate to adjournment, the
organization or conduct of either or both houses of the general assembly,
and resolutions proposing amendment to the Constitution) which shall have
passed both houses of the general assembly shall be presented to the
governor. If the governor approve it the governor shall sign it, and
thereupon it shall become operative, but if the governor does not approve it
the governor shall return it, accompanied by the governor's objections in
writing to the house in which it originated, which shall enter the
governor's objections in full upon its journal and proceed to reconsider it.
If, after such reconsideration, three-fifths of the members present and
voting in that house shall vote to pass the measure, it shall be sent with
the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise by
reconsidered, and if approved by three-fifths of the members present and
voting in that house, it shall become operative in the same manner as if the
governor had approved it, but in such cases the votes of both houses shall
be determined by ayes and nays and the names of the members voting for and
against the measure shall be entered upon the journal of each house,
respectively. If the measure shall not be returned by the governor within
six days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to the
governor the same shall become operative unless the general assembly, by
adjournment, prevents its return, in which case it shall become operative
unless transmitted by the governor nor to the secretary of state, with the
governor's disapproval in writing within ten days after such adjournment.
 

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