43 - Filling other vacancies.

§ 43. Filling  other  vacancies.  If  a vacancy shall occur, otherwise  than by expiration of term, with no provision of  law  for  filling  the  same,  if the office be elective, the governor shall appoint a person to  execute the duties thereof until the  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  an  election. But if the term of such officer shall expire with the calendar  year  in  which  the  appointment  shall  be  made,  or if the office be  appointive, the appointee shall hold for the residue of the term.