Constitution of the State of Oklahoma: July 16, 1907 (as Amended to November 5, 2024) (Oklahoma)
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- Preamble
- Main Text
- Art.I Federal Relations
- Art.II Bill of Rights
- s.1 Political power—Purpose of government—Alteration or reformation
- s.2 Inherent rights
- s.3 Right of assembly and petition
- s.4 Interference with right of suffrage
- s.5 Public money or property—Use for sectarian purposes
- s.6 Courts of justice open—Remedies for wrongs— Sale, denial or delay
- s.7 Due process of law
- s.8 Right to bail
- s.9 Excessive bail or fines—Cruel or unusual punishment
- s.9A Death penalty.
- s.10 Habeas corpus—Suspension
- s.11 Officers—Personal attention to duties—Intoxication
- s.12 Officers of United States or other states—Ineligibility to office
- s.12A Candidacy as United States Representative or Senator—Term Limits—Write-ins
- s.13 Imprisonment for debt
- s.14 Military subordinate to civil authorities—Quartering without owner’s consent
- s.15 Bills of attainder—Ex post facto laws—Obligation of contracts—Forfeitures
- s.16 Treason
- s.17 Indictment or information—Preliminary examination— Prosecutions in courts not of record
- s.18 Grand jury
- s.19 Trial by jury
- s.20 Rights of accused in criminal cases
- s.21 Self-incrimination—Double jeopardy
- s.22 Liberty of speech and press—Truth as evidence in prosecution for libel
- s.23 Private property—Taking or damaging for private use
- s.24 Private property—Public use—Character of use a judicial question
- s.25 Contempt—Definition—Jury trial—Hearing
- s.26 Bearing arms—Carrying weapons
- s.27 Witnesses not excused from testifying—Immunity from prosecution
- s.28 Corporate records, books and files
- s.29 Transportation out of State
- s.30 Unreasonable searches or seizures—Warrants, issuance of
- s.31 State—Engagement in occupation or business
- s.32 Perpetuities—Monopolies—Primogeniture—Entailments
- s.33 Effect of enumeration of rights
- s.34 Rights of Victims
- s.35 Marriage defined—Construction of law and Constitution— Recognition of out-of-state marriages—Penalty
- s.36 Right to hunt, fish, trap and harvest game and fish
- s.36A Prohibition of special treatment or discrimination based on race or sex in public employment, education and contracts.
- s.37 Health care systems—Payment and participation
- Art.III Suffrage
- Art.IV Distribution of Powers
- Art.V Legislative Department
- Initiative and Referendum
- s.1 Legislature—Authority and composition—Powers reserved to people
- s.2 Designation and definition of reserved powers—Determination of percentages
- s.3 Petitions—Veto power—Elections—Time of taking effect—Style of bills—Duty of legislature
- s.4 Referendum against part of act
- s.5 Reservation of powers to voters of counties and districts— Manner of exercising
- s.5a Township organization or government—Abolition and restoration
- s.6 Subsequent proposal of rejected measure
- s.7 Powers of Legislature not affected
- s.8 Prevention of corruption
- The Legislature Senate
- House of Representatives
- Legislative Apportionment
- s.11 [Repealed]
- s.11A Legislature to apportion Legislature—Failure to make apportionment—Apportionment Commission
- s.11B Order of apportionment rendered by Commission
- s.11C Review of apportionment order—Failure to seek review
- s.11D Determination by Supreme Court
- s.11E Compelling Commission to act—Consolidation of proceedings
- s.12 [Repealed]
- Qualification and Rights of Members
- s.17 Age—Qualified electors—Residence
- s.17A Member of Legislature elected to office—Shall serve no more than 12 years
- s.18 Ineligibility—Federal and state officers—Conviction of felony
- s.19 Expelled member ineligible—Punishment not to bar indictment
- s.20 Vacancies
- s.21 Conflict of interests prohibited—Board on Legislative Compensation
- s.22 Privileges—Arrest—Speeches or debates
- s.23 Ineligibility to appointment to office—Interest in contracts
- s.24 Disclosure of personal or private interest
- Sessions of Legislature
- Organization and Rules
- s.28 Senate—President pro tempore—Standing committees
- s.29 Speaker of House of Representatives
- s.30 Judges of election of members—Quorum—Rules—Disorderly behavior—Journal
- s.31 Elections by Legislature—Voting and entry in journal
- s.32 Special and local laws—Notice of intended introduction
- s.33 Revenue bills—Origination—Amendment—Limitation on passage—Effective date—Submission to voters
- s.34 Reading and passage of bills—Yeas and nays entered on journal
- s.35 Signing bills and resolutions—Entry on journal
- Powers and Duties
- s.36 Extent of legislative authority—Specific grants not limitations
- s.37 Printing plant and state printer
- s.38 Geological and Economic Survey
- s.39 Boards of Health, Dentistry and Pharmacy—Pure Food Commission—Present practitioners
- s.40 Militia
- s.41 Firemen’s pensions
- s.42 Contempt, disobedience of process and disorderly conduct
- s.43 Decennial revision of laws
- s.44 Unlawful restraints of trade
- s.45 Carrying Constitution into effect
- Limitations
- s.46 Local and special laws on certain subjects prohibited
- s.47 Retirement of officers
- s.48 Bureau of immigration
- s.49 Legislative employees—Number and emoluments
- s.50 Exemption of property from taxation
- s.51 Exclusive rights, privileges or immunities
- s.52 Revival of rights or remedies—Taking away cause of action or defense
- s.53 Release or extinguishment of debts or liabilities to state, county or municipality
- Miscellaneous Provisions
- s.54 Repeal of statute—Effect
- s.55 Appropriations—Necessity and requisites
- s.56 General appropriation bills—Salaries—Separate appropriation bills
- s.57 Subjects and titles—Revival or amendment by reference— Extent of invalidity
- s.58 Time of taking effect of statutes—Emergency measures
- s.59 Uniform operation of general laws—Special laws when general law applicable
- s.60 System of checks and balances
- s.61 Pensions to police officers
- s.62 Retirement benefits for teachers and school employees
- s.63 Continuity of governmental operations in periods of emergency
- Initiative and Referendum
- Art.VI Executive Department
- s.1 Executive officers enumerated—Offices and records—Duties
- s.2 Supreme power vested in Governor
- s.3 Eligibility to certain state offices
- s.4 Terms of office—Succession
- s.5 Returns of election—Tie votes
- Governor
- s.6 Commander-in-Chief of Militia—Calling out militia
- s.7 Extraordinary sessions of Legislature
- s.8 Execution of laws—Intercourse with other states and United States—Conservator of peace
- s.9 Messages and communications to Legislature
- s.10 Reprieves, commutations, paroles and pardons
- s.11 Approval or veto of bills—Passage over veto—Failure to return bill
- s.12 Appropriation bills—Approval or disapproval—Emergency bills
- s.13 Officers’ commissions—Vacancies
- s.14 Adjournment of Legislature—Changing place of meeting
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- State Auditor and Inspector
- Commissioner of Labor
- The Insurance Commissioner
- Chief Mine Inspector
- Commissioner of Charities and Corrections
- Board of Agriculture
- Commissioners of the Land Office
- Seal of the State
- Art.VII Judicial Department
- s.1 Courts in which judicial power vested
- s.2 Supreme Court Justices—Number—Terms—Vacancies— Qualifications—Chief Justice—Vice Chief Justice
- s.3 Election of Justices and Judges—Vacancies
- s.4 Jurisdiction of Supreme Court—Writs
- s.5 Sessions—Quorum—Intermediate appellate courts—Form of decisions—Clerk of Supreme Court
- s.6 Administrative authority—Director and staff
- s.7 District Courts—Jurisdiction—Courts abolished—Transfer of jurisdiction, files, etc.
- s.8 Classes of District Court Judges—Selection—Terms— Jurisdiction—Qualifications
- s.9 Election of District Judges and Associate District Judges
- s.10 Judicial Administrative Districts
- s.11 Salaries and expenses—Retirement
- s.12 Continuing provisions
- s.13 Savings clause
- s.14 Effective dates—Implementing acts
- s.15 Jury trials—Verdicts
- s.16 Repealer
- Art.VII-A Court on the Judiciary
- s.1 Removal of judges from office—Compulsory retirement—Causes
- s.2 Creation of Court on the Judiciary—Trial and Appellate Divisions—Jurisdiction—Membership
- s.3 Presiding judge—Rules—Meetings—Clerk—Powers
- s.4 Invoking jurisdiction by petition—Hearing
- s.5 Appeal to Appellate Division
- s.6 Established rules to apply—Judge pro tem—Compensation
- s.7 Exclusive jurisdiction
- Art.VII-B Selection of Justices and Judges
- Art.VIII Impeachment and Removal From Office
- s.1 Officers subject to impeachment—Grounds—Suspension from office upon felony conviction—Reinstatement—Temporary judges
- s.2 Removal of officers not subject to impeachment
- s.3 Presiding officer in case of impeachment—Presentation of impeachment
- s.4 Oath or affirmation—Number concurring
- s.5 Judgment of impeachment
- s.6 Necessary laws to be passed
- Art.IX Corporations
- Definition
- Railroad and Public Service Corporations
- s.2 Rights as to construction of lines
- s.3 Receipt of cars, tonnage and passengers from other lines
- s.4 Oil pipe line companies—Regulation—Duties
- s.5 Telegraph and telephone companies—Exchange of messages— Physical connections
- s.6 Railroads as public highways—Offices—Meetings— Reports—Enforcement
- s.7 Movable property as personal property—Liability of property to execution
- s.8 Consolidation of public service corporations—Common officer
- s.9 Sales and leases—Additional restrictions on consolidation
- s.10 Street railroads—Consent to construction and operation
- s.11 Acceptance of provisions of Constitution
- s.12 Transportation of railroad’s own commodities
- s.13 Free transportation of passengers
- s.14 [Repealed]
- Corporation Commission
- s.15 Creation—Terms of office—Vacancies
- s.16 Qualifications of commissioners
- s.17 Oath of office—Additional oath
- s.18 Powers and duties—Notice before taking action—Process for witnesses—Authority of legislature—Municipal powers
- s.18a Organization—Quorum—Necessary vote
- s.18b Company defined
- s.19 Powers of court of record—Additional powers—Failure or refusal to obey orders
- s.20 Appeals to Supreme Court—Other courts to have no jurisdiction—Mandamus and prohibition
- s.21 Supercedeas—Security—Accounts—Refunds—Precedence of appeals
- s.22 Statement of reasons for action—Cause heard on record—Certification of facts and evidence—New or additional evidence
- s.23 [Repealed]
- s.24 Rights of action not affected—Questioning action of Commission
- s.25 Reports and recommendations
- s.26 Railway depots and depot buildings
- s.27 Railroad crossings at grade
- s.28 Inspection of books and papers—Examination of officers and agents
- s.29 Record of financial transactions
- s.30 Greater charge for less distance
- s.31 Foreign corporations—Eminent domain—Restrictions on exercise
- s.32 Through rates—Investigation—Notice—Application to Interstate Commerce Commission
- s.33 Switches to mines, mills, elevators and industries
- s.34 Definitions—Avoidance of conflicts with U.S. Constitution
- s.35 Power of Legislature
- Fellow-Servants
- Passenger Fare
- Private Corporations
- s.38 Creation or licensing—Necessity of general law
- s.39 Restrictions on issuance of stock
- s.40 Influencing elections or official duty
- s.41 Banks and trust companies—Restriction on controlling other stock
- s.42 Arbitration of differences with employees
- s.43 Foreign corporations—Designation of resident agent— Service—Place of suit
- s.44 Foreign corporations subject to same restrictions and requirements as domestic corporations
- s.45 Monopoly or destruction of competition—Discrimination prohibited
- s.46 Grants of special or exclusive privileges
- s.47 Power to alter, amend or repeal charters or franchises
- s.48 Penalties and regulations
- Art.X Revenue and Taxation
- General Provisions
- s.1 Fiscal year
- s.2 Tax to defray state expenses
- s.3 Tax to pay deficiency
- s.4 Levy to pay state debt
- s.5 Surrender of power of taxation—Uniformity of taxes
- s.6 Property exempt from taxation—Property exempt under territorial law—Certain property exempted for limited time—Special election to determine whether certain property exempt
- s.6A-1 Tangible personal property moving through State—Situs
- s.6A-2 Intangible personal property exempt from ad valorem or other tax
- s.6B Qualifying manufacturing concern—Ad valorem tax exemption
- s.6C Tax relief for historic preservation, reinvestment, or enterprise areas—Economic stagnation or decline—Use of local taxes and fees for public investments—Development or redevelopment of unproductive, etc. areas
- s.7 Assessments for local improvements
- s.8 Valuation of property for taxation—Limit on percentage of fair cash value—Approval by voters
- s.8A Approval of exemption of household goods of heads of families and livestock employed in support of family—Adjusted millage rate— Computation procedure—Maximum rate
- s.8B Limit on percentage of fair cash value of real property
- s.8C Limit on fair cash value on homestead
- s.8D Household personal property exemption—Permanently disabled veterans
- s.8E Homestead exemption—Military service disability
- s.8F Homestead exemption—Surviving spouse of veteran
- s.9 Amount of ad valorem tax
- s.9A Additional county ad valorem tax levy for department of health
- s.9B Technology center school districts for technology center schools—Tax levies
- s.9C Emergency Medical Service Districts
- s.9D Solid waste management services
- s.10 Increased rate for public buildings or for building fund for school districts—Permanent levy
- s.10A Tax levy for cooperative county libraries and joint city-county libraries
- s.10B Municipal-owned hospitals—Operation and maintenance— Tax levy
- s.11 Officer receiving interest, profit or perquisites
- s.12 Special forms of taxation—Amounts—Reference to Federal taxation
- s.12a Common school taxes on property of public service corporations
- s.13 Independence of state taxation
- s.14 Levy and collection by general laws and for public purposes— Assumption of debts
- s.15 Pledge or loan of credit—Donation—Exceptions
- s.16 Borrowing money—Specification of purpose—Use
- s.17 Aid to corporations, etc., by counties, cities, towns, etc.
- s.18 [Repealed]
- s.19 Specification of purpose of tax—Devotion to another purpose
- s.20 Taxes for county, city, town or municipal purpose
- s.21 State Board of Equalization—Assessment levels
- s.22 Classification of property
- s.22A Ad valorem tax exemption—Prohibition on filing for years prior to original application
- Public Indebtedness
- s.23 Balanced budget—Procedures
- s.23a Surplus accruing to General Revenue Fund—Payment of bonded indebtedness—Investments—Appropriation of surplus
- s.23b Contracts for incarceration of state inmates with counties and municipalities
- s.24 Debts in case of invasion, insurrection, or war
- s.25 Authorization of debt—Annual tax—Submission to voters— Final passage
- s.26 Indebtedness of political subdivisions—Assent of voters— Annual tax—Computation of amount of indebtedness
- s.27 Indebtedness for purchase, construction or repair of public utilities
- s.27A Municipal water and water facilities—Financing
- s.27B Political subdivisions—Public utilities financing—Indebtedness
- s.28 Revenue for sinking fund—Uses to which applied
- s.29 Bonds and evidence of indebtedness—Certificates as to compliance with law
- s.30 System of accounting
- s.31 Indebtedness for construction, equipment, etc., of state buildings—Use of part of cigarette tax for payment
- s.32 State public common school building equalization fund
- s.33 Indebtedness for construction of buildings and other capital improvements—Restrictions—Term—Sources of payment
- s.33A State Industrial Finance Authority
- s.34 Indebtedness for capital improvements to institutions of higher education—School and hospital for mentally retarded
- s.35 Municipal and county levy for securing and developing industry
- s.36 Indebtedness for capital improvements—University Medical Center
- s.37 Bond issue for capital improvements at state institutions
- s.38 Indebtedness for capital improvements at state institutions
- s.39 Water resources and sewage treatment programs—Funding— State financial assistance—State liability
- s.39A Water Infrastructure Credit Enhancement Reserve Fund.
- s.40 Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund
- s.41 Oklahoma education lottery trust fund
- s.42 Economic development credit enhancement reserve fund— General obligation bonds
- s.43 State construction, remodeling or other capital improvements— Amount of indebtedness—Payment and discharge of debt—Issuance of bonds
- General Provisions
- Art.XI State and School Lands
- s.1 Acceptance of grants and donations—Pledge of faith of state
- s.2 Permanent school fund—How constituted—Use— Reimbursement for losses
- s.3 Interest and income—Use and apportionment
- s.4 Sale of lands for charitable, penal, educational and public purposes
- s.5 University and college lands—Control of institutions—Diversion of funds
- s.6 Investment of permanent common school and other educational funds
- s.7 Grants of commercial and agricultural leases in trust property
- Art.XII Homestead and Exemptions
- Art.XII-A Homestead Exemption from Taxation
- Art.XIII Education
- s.1 Establishment and maintenance of public schools
- s.1a Appropriation and allocation of funds for support of common schools
- s.2 Institutions for deaf, deaf and mute or blind
- s.3 [Repealed]
- s.4 Compulsory school attendance
- s.5 Board of Education
- s.6 Textbook system for common schools—Official multiple textbook lists
- s.7 Instruction in agriculture, horticulture, stock feeding and domestic science
- s.8 Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma
- Art.XIII-A Oklahoma State System of Higher Education
- Art.XIII-B Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges
- Art.XIV Banks and Banking
- Art.XV Oath of Office
- Art.XVI Public Roads, Highways, and Internal Improvements
- Art.XVII Counties
- Art.XVIII Municipal Corporations
- Art.XIX Insurance
- Art.XX Manufacture and Commerce
- Art.XXI Public Institutions
- Art.XXII Alien and Corporate Ownership of Lands
- Art.XXIII Miscellaneous
- Art.XXIV Constitutional Amendments
- Art.XXV Social Security
- s.1 Relief and care of needy aged and disabled persons— Co-operation with Federal plan
- s.2 Department of Public Welfare
- s.3 Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission
- s.4 Director of Public Welfare
- s.5 Effect of legislation contemporaneously adopted
- s.6 Department to administer human services and public welfare.
- Art.XXV-A Medicaid Expansion
- Art.XXVI Department of Wildlife Conservation
- Art.XXVII Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board [Repealed]
- Art.XXVIII Alcoholic Beverage Laws and Enforcement
- s.1 Creation of Commission—Appointment—Membership— Powers—Tenure
- s.1A Transition from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission
- s.2 Exclusion of beer or cereal malt beverages containing not more than 3.2% of alcohol by weight
- s.3 Enactment of laws by Legislature—Nondiscriminatory sales to licensed wholesale distributers—Winemakers
- s.4 Retail sales by package stores and by the individual drink.
- s.5 Prohibition of sales to certain persons—Limitation on advertising—Penalties
- s.6 Prohibition of sales on certain days—Penalties
- s.7 Taxation and licensing—Distribution of funds
- s.8 State and political subdivisions prohibited from engaging in business
- s.9 Occupation tax
- s.10 Restrictions on issuance of licenses
- s.11 Repealer
- Art.XXVIII-A Alcoholic Beverage Laws and Enforcement
- s.1 Beverages governed.
- s.2 Enactment of laws by Legislature — Direct shipment of alcoholic beverages — Direct sales of wine.
- s.3 Legislature to prescribe licenses.
- s.4 License requirements.
- s.5 Prohibition of sales to certain persons.
- s.6 Legislature to determine times of sales or service.
- s.7 Taxation of alcoholic beverages.
- s.8 State and political subdivisions prohibited from engaging in business.
- s.9 Occupation tax.
- s.10 Effective dates.
- Art.XXIX Ethics Commission
- Art.XXX Official Actions of the State of Oklahoma
- Schedule
- Preamble
- s.1 Existing rights, actions, etc.—Process previously issued
- s.2 Territorial laws continued in force
- s.3 Debts, fines, penalties and forfeitures
- s.4 Taking effect of Constitution
- s.5 Notaries public—Continuance in office
- s.6 Female notaries—Eligibility as notaries and county superintendent of public instruction
- s.7 Property of Territory of Oklahoma
- s.8 Judgments and records in Indian Territory and Osage Reservation as notice
- s.9 Judgments and records of Oklahoma Territory as notice
- s.10 Incorporated cities and towns—Continuance— Officers—Ordinances
- s.11 Taxes in incorporated cities and towns
- s.12 Local improvements and public buildings in cities and towns
- s.13 Acts of Congress as to mining—Chief Mine Inspector to be Oil Inspector
- s.14 Dental surgeons
- s.15 State officers—Compensation
- s.16 Justices of Supreme Court—District judges—Salaries
- s.17 Other state officers—Compensation as provided by law
- s.18 County and township officers
- s.19 Boards of Regents of educational institutions
- s.20 Division of property, assets and liabilities of counties
- s.21 Property, assets and liabilities of Day County
- s.22 Official seals
- s.23 Probate records and causes
- s.24 Seal of county court
- s.25 County, township and municipal indebtedness
- s.26 Transfer of cases to Supreme Court of State
- s.27 Transfer of cases to district court from territorial courts
- s.28 Amendment of Enabling Act accepted
- s.29 Judge of district court—Eligibility
- s.30 Eligibility to state office
- s.31 Osage County—Taxation
- s.32 School districts—Division of property, assets and liabilities
- s.33 Attorneys—Eligibility to practice
- s.34 Newspapers—Legal notices and advertisements
- s.35 Indebtedness of Constitutional Convention—Expenses of election
- s.36 Ordinance for submission of Constitution—Ratification
- s.37 Invalid indebtedness not validated
- s.38 Division of property, assets and liabilities of counties by Supreme Court
- s.39 Superintendents of public instruction—Qualifications
- s.40 State officers—Beginning of term
- s.41 Qualification of officers
- s.42 Official bonds
- s.43 Filing and preservation of Constitution
- Prohibition Ordinance
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