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    § 7. Every bill which shall have passed the senate and assembly shall,
  before  it  becomes a law, be presented to the governor; if the governor
  approve, he or she shall sign it; but if not, he or she shall return  it
  with  his  or  her  objections  to  the  house  in  which  it shall have
  originated, which shall enter the objections at large  on  the  journal,
  and  proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration, two-thirds
  of the members elected to that house shall agree to pass  the  bill,  it
  shall be sent together with the objections, to the other house, by which
  it  shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by two-thirds of the
  members elected to that house, it shall become a law notwithstanding the
  objections of the governor. In all such cases the votes in  both  houses
  shall  be  determined  by  yeas  and  nays, and the names of the members
  voting shall be entered on the journal of each  house  respectively.  If
  any  bill shall not be returned by the governor within ten days (Sundays
  excepted) after it shall have been presented to him  or  her,  the  same
  shall  be a law in like manner as if he or she had signed it, unless the
  legislature shall, by their adjournment, prevent its  return,  in  which
  case  it shall not become a law without the approval of the governor. No
  bill shall become a law after the final adjournment of the  legislature,
  unless   approved   by  the  governor  within  thirty  days  after  such
  adjournment. If any bill presented to the governor contain several items
  of appropriation of money, the governor may object to  one  or  more  of
  such  items  while  approving  of the other portion of the bill. In such
  case the governor shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a
  statement of the items to which he or she objects; and the appropriation
  so objected to shall not take effect. If the legislature be in  session,
  he  or  she  shall  transmit to the house in which the bill originated a
  copy of such statement, and the items objected to  shall  be  separately
  reconsidered.  If  on  reconsideration  one  or  more  of  such items be
  approved by two-thirds of the members elected to each  house,  the  same
  shall  be  part  of  the  law,  notwithstanding  the  objections  of the
  governor. All the provisions of this section, in relation to  bills  not
  approved  by the governor, shall apply in cases in which he or she shall
  withhold  approval  from  any  item  or  items  contained  in   a   bill
  appropriating money.

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