No person shall be a member of the House of Representatives who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one (21) years, and who shall not be a qualified elector of the State, and who shall not have been a resident citizen of the State for four (4) years, and within the district such person seeks to serve for two (2) years, immediately preceding his election. The seat of a member of the House of Representatives shall be vacated on his removal from the district from which he was elected.

SOURCES: 1817 art III § 7; 1832 art III § 7; 1869 art IV § 3; Laws, 1987, ch. 674, eff December 4, 1987.